ASIN: B01MUAR8H6
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 182
“Going for Broke” consists of letters written by a young American who quit his lucrative job to travel the world on a spiritual quest. It tells the story of a man who took to heart Thoreau’s urging to “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams” and “Live the life you’ve imagined.”The author worked as a programmer during the technology boom of the late 1990s. Although seemingly content with his life, he had long harbored a desire to become a Buddhist monk. When he learned that one of his computer programs was being used for animal testing, he gave up his job and apartment and sold his car, using the money to finance a back-packing trip -- to see the world and see if he could renounce it and become a monk.His journey takes him across the Pacific, from Buddhist monasteries in California, to Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Nepal, Thailand and finally to ...
