Hard Travel To Sacred Places

✍ Scribed by Rudolph Wurlitzer

• Publisher: Shambhala
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 80 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781570621178

✦ Synopsis

hard Travel To Sacred Places Is The Record Of A Personal Odyssey Through Southeast Asia, An External And Internal Journey Through Grief And The Painful Realities Of A Decadent Age. Wurlitzer—novelist, Screenwriter, And Buddhist Practitioner—travels With His Wife, Photographer Lynn Davis, On A Photo Assignment To The Sacred Sites Of Thailand, Burma, And Cambodia. Heavy Westernization, Sex Clubs, Aging Hippies And Expatriates, And Political Dissidents Provide A Vivid Contrast To The Peace That Wurlitzer And Davis Seek, Still Reeling From The Death Of Their Son In A Car Accident. As Davis With Her Camera Searches For A Thread Of Meaning Among The Artifacts And Relics Of A More Enlightened Age, Wurlitzer Grasps At The Wisdom Of The Buddhist Teachings In An Effort To Assuage His Grief. His Journal Chronicles The Survival Of Age-old Truths In A World Gone Mad.

publishers Weekly

after The Untimely Death Of Their 21-year-old Son, Novelist/screenwriter Wurlitzer ( Little Buddha ) And His Wife, Photogapher Lynn Davis, Embarked On A Spiritual Journey Through Thailand, Burma (now Myanmar) And Cambodia, Seeking Solace And Enlightenment From Buddhist Sacred Places. They Found Instead A Consumer Culture In Which Material Desire Has Displaced The Spiritual Center With Disastrous Consequences For The Indigenous Practice Of Buddhism. By The End Of Their Journey, Wurlitzer And Davis Have Failed To Find The Illumination And Peace They Had So Desperately Sought. Unfortunately, Readers Will Gain As Little From This Book As The Authors Did From Their Trip, For Wurlitzer's Style Is Pretentious, And His Questions, For One Who Claims To Have Practiced Buddhism, Are Sophomoric And Self-conscious. Had He Remembered That In Buddhism Enlightenment Comes Only After One Has Forsaken All Desire, He Might Have Been Able To Transcend The Physical And Spiritual Exhaustion That Dominated His Journey. Since He Did Not However, His Readers Are Left Likewise Exhausted And Without Enlightenment. (aug.)