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Breakfast with Buddha: A Novel
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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 effort to westernize his passenger---and amuse himself---he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way. From a chocolate factory in Hershey to a bowling alley in South Bend, from a Cubs game at Wrigley field to his family farm near Bismarck, Otto is given the remarkable opportunity to see his world---and more important, his life---through someone else's eyes. Gradually, skepticism yields to amazement as he realizes that his companion might just be the real thing. In Roland Merullo's masterful hands, Otto tells his story with all the wonder, bemusement, and wry humor of a man who unwittingly finds what he's missing in the most unexpected place.
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Audible Audiobook
Listening Length: 9 hours and 34 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Audible.com Release Date: April 26, 2011
Whispersync for Voice: Ready
Language: English, English
ASIN: B004XXVTQ4
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Novelistic road journeys frequently become spiritual journeys. So it is with Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" (1957)and "The Dharma Bums" and so it is as well with Roland Merullo's novel fifty years after Kerouac's: "Breakfast with Buddha (2007)." We don't have beats, mad sex, and the wildness of Dean Moriarty in Merullo's road novel from the American East to the Midwest. Rather we have a 44-year old successful New York City editor of books about food, named Otto Ringling, happily married, and the father of two lovely teenagers, who is tricked by his sister Cecelia into accepting her guru as his travelling companion on a trip to North Dakota.Otto and Cecelia grew up on a North Dakota farm. Six months earlier, their elderly parents had died in an automobile accident. Otto and Cecelia, who fears flying, were to return to settle the estate and sell the farm. At the last moment, however, Cecelia backs out and substitutes the guru, Volya Rinpoche, instead. Otto is disconcerted with Cecelia's decision to give her half of their parents' estate to Rinpoche as a meditation center. While Otto has become a successful editior, Cecelia makes a precarious living telling fortunes and reading tarot cards. Unmarried, Cecelia has shared her favors generously over the years. Otto understandably regards his sister as flaky and refers to her affectionately as "nutcake."Otto and Rinpoche's trip from New Jersey to North Dakota was to take three days, but it develops into six. Otto is at first annoyed with his companion and tries to show him up as a quack. Nominally Protestant, Otto is basically a skeptic; but he has been bothered since adolescence by questions about the meaning of life and by a vague sense of dissatisfaction. With the death of his parents in a meaningless accident, his questions intensify.Much of the book involves the growing relationship between Otto and the Rinpoche and what each man offers to the other. When Otto loses his temper, the Rinpoche sits back in the car and smiles. Slowly, Otto becomes interested and Rinpoche invites him to ask one question a day at breakfast. When, on the first day, Otto asks the Rinpoche about the meaning of life, the Rinpoche replies by throwing some dirt into a glass of drinking water. He explains that this is the state of the ordinary, distracted mind, and that a concentrated, pure mind may become clear. The teachings become more elaborate as the journey proceeds, and at one point the Rinpoche exhorts Otto to think of the meaning of the Buddha's teaching to strive on and pursue one's own salvation with diligence. Otto, in turn, helps the Rinpoche with his English and also shows him something of the United States in a light that may be new to the Rinpoche, and perhaps to the reader as well.In their time together, Otto learns that spiritual teachings cannot be mastered in days, and the Rinpoche learns that the United States cannot fully be appreciated in days. Besides showing a change in spiritual outlook, much of the journey, as is also the case with Kerouac's journeys, is a paean to the breadth and basic goodness of the United States. In their trip, Otto shows the Rinpoche, the Hershey chocolate factory, a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley field, the Great Lakes, and much else. He takes the Rincpche on a brief cruise on the Chicago River. The two travellers play minature golf and go bowling, to the Rinpoche's delight. In turn, Otto becomes an initially reluctant participant in yoga and meditation, reads the Rinpoche's book called "The Ultimate Pleasure", and attends several teaching sessions at Notre Dame and Madison, Wisconsin along the way. As the journey to North Dakota comes to an end, there is a suggestion that Otto, while not about to abandon his wife, family or career, has made a change in the way in which he understands and will pursue his life. "You have the good life." The Rinpoche says. "Easy life this time, Otto. Do not waste, okay?" (p. 147)The book succeeds due to its ability to combine a serious subject with humor and with lightness of touch. Merullo avoids the tendency to didacticism or preaching. There is a great deal of emphasis of food and gourmandizing in the book. Otto, true to his profession, overeats as the road journey is punctuated by meals at many types of gourmet restaurants. He comes to see something of the limitations of over attachment to food. Otto and the Rinpoche also see and learn from some of the simple good people, an old man at a gas station, a seller of popsicles from a cart, and a clerk at the bowling alley, that help make the United States. This unpretentious, somewhat breezy little novel is both a spiritual and an American journey.Robin Friedman
I really enjoyed this new take on finding "the path". The idea of a road trip that pairs up a middle class, New Yorker with a Buddhist monk is unique and makes for an interesting and well-developed plot and set of characters.In essence, the son of recently deceased parents is called upon to journey back to his North Dakota plains, farming roots to settle the estate for those who remain in his family. His intended sidekick will be his sister, a 60's hippie chick. Thus the narrator sets out, away from his middle class, New York life, complete with loving wife and two "normal" teenaged children, to collect his airy-fairy, touchy-feely kid sister. For a week or so, the brother and sister will drive cross-country, in the quest to sell off the family farm and their history, where they grew up, under the taciturn and rigid eye of their no-nonsense parents. Two siblings couldn't be any more different, yet the same.When the main character arrives at this sister's decrepit home in Paterson, New Jersey, the anti-thesis of his life in the Big Apple's suburbs, he is confronted with the realization that his sister will not accompany him westward. Rather a large, Russian monk, clad in maroon robes, is destined to ride in the shotgun seat, during the trip back west and back in time.As the odd couple heads out, the brother gives in to his sister's request and accepts that his traveling companion will be part of his life for the coming week. In accepting the presence of the lama, the narrator and becomes upbeat and intent on showing off the "real America" that is so close to his heart, yet so confusing with its modern ironies and conflicts. The monk is similarly compelled to show the driver a parallel world that some describe as "the way".As the miles, sights and days roll by, the pair begin to teach one another, through a series of chance encounters and places, that life and times in America can be seen as good, bad or indifferent to those who experience them.Not to give the plot away, one could say that in the end, many truths are made clear to all those involved in the storyline. Acceptance is revealed. And hope for a darkening world is lightened by the existence of a higher being. Who that is remains unclear. But "the way" is described as never clear, except to those of find it, in their own way.This is a very entertaining and provocative read. Having the narrator discover basic truths about himself and about unknown, farflung worlds is a clever format through which to meander for as long as one is engrossed in this novel. For those who are interested in world religions and diverse cultural beliefs and mores, this tale is for you. Who knows what is possible in this ever-confusing and ever-conflicted world?!
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