This Unexpected Jewel

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Unexpected Jewel</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Ken McLeod offers a fresh and highly readable translation of the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Diamond Sutra</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> one of the most revered texts in the Buddhist tradition. Trained in the Tibetan tradition and translating from the Tibetan McLeod approaches the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Diamond Sutra</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> not as a philosophical treatise but as a series of pointing out instructions that is ways to cut through conceptual thinking to the essence of what we are. In short it is a translation for practitioners crafted by a long-term practitioner and teacher.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book is a guide for those who aspire to the bodhisattva ideal and seek to experience life as it is not as they imagine it to be. It offers a devotional and experiential encounter with a text that for centuries has confounded those who rely on conceptual thinking stopped the minds of beginners and masters alike and revealed the possibility of a totally different way of living.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Through clear natural language and careful word choice that reflect both the text's spiritual depth and conversational tone McLeod opens a way for modern readers to experience directly the ineffable clarity that is this sutra's essential teaching.</span></p><p></p>