Conversations with Buddha

This book forms part of an accessible introductory series that provides a short biography and thematic conversations around key teachings. The biography relates his various encounters with Mara as his adversary while the individual chapters draw on Buddhist writings to provide clear explanations and indeed reminders

of the central teachings in terms of suffering, impermanence, no self, karma, morality, mindfulness, compassion and the way of the bodhisattva. I found the format simple and direct so that the book can serve as a lucid introduction as well as a repetition of core spiritual truths that we cannot hear too often.