The Koans of Jesus

In Junior High, I memorized the Sermon on the Mount. I was bored in a church membership class and wanted a challenge. I had little concern for what the words meant. That changed in the mid 1990’s after I had attended a number of intensive Buddhist retreats in the Vipassana tradition. I was struck by the similarity between some of Jesus’s words in the Sermon on the Mount and the teachings of Buddha. Thus began a project, now decades long, of attempting to integrate the two. The result is this little book.