NATURAL GREAT PERFECTION - DZOGCHEN TEACHINGS & VAJRA SONGS - NYOSHUL KHENPO & LAMA SURYA DAS

RATING - B+

I related well to Chapter 7, finding it helpful. The picture on page 135 of the tiny show pigeon reminded me of my Australian wild-pets - the pigeons that lived in the yard/city and chose our yard as their daytime living zone. That definitely caught my interest. The penultimate verse on page 145 in chapter 11 also stood out. Page 162's lineage was useful.

I found the book overall to be a very effective read in the way of opening the mind to understand things already partly comprehended & confirming things that 'seemed' to be...

THE RH FACTOR - RICK HUTCHINS

RATING - B-

The first few and last few stories in this multi-story collective stood out as the strongest. While they all contained well-written material, a few were somewhat gruesome or fantastically unreal. Luckily, the worst of the gruesome ones do come with warnings - and allow the reader to skip the worst sentances and then get back into the storyline.

Definitely some material for thought provocation, several ideas worth further consideration hidden behind the fiction. I am not personally a fan of fiction, and rarely read it these days, but I would reccommend this collection to those who are interested in fiction. Rick-fans may be dissappointed to find only ONE reference to honysuckle in this collective....

MAGIC DANCE - THE DISPLAY OF THE SELF-NATURE OF THE FIVE WISDOM DAKINIS - THINLEY NORBU

RATING: B+

This reccommended-to-me book expanded my current understanding. The death-life sequence on pages 9-10 is very useful. The poem on page 61 contains much to explore and investigate. Exploring the subject of tradition leads me to believe that I was not born into one that I could belong to, but an alien tradition in comparison to former lives.

This book is at the right level to make me fall deeper into know-mind, but cannot be read in a hurry as there is too much to contemplate and analyze en route.