East West Street, by the leading human rights lawyer, Philippe Sands, is about the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, Sands’ family history and the law. But this remarkable book weaves its many threads into a powerful meditation on interconnectedness and what that...
Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey Luarth Press, 2017 Poverty Safari starts with an account of something that’s becoming very familiar to me: going into a prison to run a group (I teach mindfulness). What McGarvey adds to my understanding of that situation is an...
Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Foodby Jan Chozen Bays Review by Vishvapani When you start a weight-loss diet you focus on a goal. That’s motivating, but the problem with goals is that you either (a) meet them, and...
Buddhism: An Introduction by Alexander Wynne, I.B. Taurus, London 2015 Alexander Wynne’s excellent book is nothing like most ‘introductions’ to Buddhism. There’s no blow by blow explanation of the Eightfold Path or other basic doctrines. As...
What if one of the philosophers who travelled to India with Alexander the Great had encountered Buddhism, become a monastic practitioner and then returned to Greece, where he taught Buddhism but was remembered only as a Greek philosopher? Greek Buddha argues that this...
The Sleep Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night by Dr Guy Meadows My rating: 4 of 5 stars I came to this book as a mindfulness teacher who sometimes works with people suffering insomnia, not as an insomniac myself (though I sometimes have trouble getting to sleep). So I...
