Breakfast with Buddha

By Roland Merullo,

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When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effortā€¦

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True, itā€™s fiction, so not really a memoir at all. But it reads like one in part because itā€™s the spiritual journey of a likable doubting Thomas (named Otto Ringling) who thinks that all that New Age-y stuff is a bunch of malarkey (thereā€™s also an actual journey from the east coast to North Dakota). If youā€™ve ever questioned anything ā€œwoo-woo,ā€ youā€™ll be charmed by Ottoā€™s unlikely travel companionā€”an enigmatic spiritual teacher named Volya Rinpoche. At the onset, Otto is a dry, snarky, judgmental guy but he learns to listen to his heart and accept others. I used to beā€¦

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