Structure

The book includes sixteen chapters. Each one has a title. These consist of questions, such as Chapter 15 titled “Is Enlightenment Enlightening?”, wordplay, such as “A Weedless World”, and jocular revelations, such as “Like, wow, Everything Is One (at Most)”. Each chapter is split into several parts of similar length, focused on one concept or containing one anecdote. Each of these sections is a few pages long. These sections also have clear but interesting titles, such as “The Enlightenment Checklist”, “Jealousy: The Tyrant of the Mind”, and “Does Not-Self Really Mean No Self?”

Though the language in the book is like that of a work of fiction in many senses, the formatting of the book is inconsistent with fictional works. In addition to the clarity of explanation in this hierarchy of divisional organization, this book also includes an appendix of Buddhist truths, a bibliography, and an index that...