The Buddha, Geoff and Me - Softcover
This is the story of Rob who is having a hard time - at work, in his personal life and generally. Then he meets a Buddhist called Geoff, and starts to learn from him the power of positive thinking and how to turn problems into challenges. And gradually, bit by bit, things begin to change. lapses at the crucial moment. And along the way life throws two severe tests at him, which he only just manages to cope with, before he sets off into the sunset, finally realizing how to put his new skills into practice in the urban jungle. Battersea is the new Buddha Da...
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas was educated at New College, Oxford, where he started writing and directing. His TV work includes Not The Nine O'Clock News, The Bill, Kavanagh QC, Tough Love, Pompeii: The Last Day and Supervolcano. He is much in demand, and puts all of his success down to his Buddhist practice, which not only continues to help him generate ideas, but also gives him the energy to carry them out. He lives with his wife and two children in Hertfordshire.
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- Publication date2005
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- ISBN 13 9781844135684
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