I love the guidance of Sylvia Boorstein because it teaches me how to deal with my mind which is the root of most, if not all, of my problems. She writes things I would have wanted myself to express. She writes about experiences like mine. I prefer her Buddhist wisdom to religious teachings which I find mostly irrelevant.

For example, Boorstein wrote:”… the mind has – as its essence- the Clarity from which wisdom arises. It also implies that a full religious path must include TOOLS for accessing that essence directly.”

“The Buddhism that had come from the West offered a clear explanation of suffering and tools for the direct, personal realization of a peaceful mind.”

Most of all: “It required practice not AFFILIATION. It was a great spiritual path. It promised transformation.”