In a book aimed at Western audiences, the author uses humor and anecdotes to explain the nature of enlightenment, especially the notion that enlightenment is closer to ordinary life that the layman may think. Original.
.cs2663CC92{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs2CAA79F6{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } In this cut-to-the-chase explanation of the actual nature of enlightenment, Thubten goes the extra mile to reach out to Western audiences, using gentle humor and perceptive stories to engage the intuitive understanding of his readers. The emphasis is on how close ordinary life is to enlightenment rather than how impossible it might be to reach it; it's a message that readers are inevitably drawn to