GIGO and Books in My Bedroom

GIGO and Books in My Bedroom

GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) is a term in computer programming, where the quality of the product will only be as good/effective as the inputted code.

It’s the same with Buddhism, where Karma is the evolutionary result of an intentional act. Positive intentions and positive acts will yield positive results. On the other hand, negative intentions and negative acts will yield negative results. Garbage in, garbage out.

Books in My Bedroom Bookshelf

Top shelf

  • The Art of Happiness, H.H. Dalai Lama (H.H. means His Holiness)
  • Live in a Better Way, H.H. Dalai Lama
  • The Path to Tranquility, H.H. Dalai Lama
  • Imagine All the People, H.H. Dalai Lama
  • An Open Heart, H.H. Dalai Lama
  • Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective, H.H. Dalai Lama
  • The World of Tibetan Buddhism, H.H. Dalai Lama
  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
  • Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
  • The Vision of the Buddha, Tom Lowenstein
  • Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom, Thomas Cleary
  • The Five Houses of Zen, Thomas Cleary
  • Zen and the Sutras, Albert Low
  • The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen
  • Buddhism Plain and Simple, Steve Hagen
  • Ethics for the New Millennium, H.H. Dalai Lama
  • In Exile from the Land of Snows, John Avedon
  • Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Living Buddha, Living Christ, Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Teachings on Love, Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Meditation in Action, Chogyam Trungpa
  • Symbols of Tibetan Buddhism, Claude Levenson
  • Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula Le Guin
  • Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, translated by D.C. Lau
  • The Tao of Inner Peace, Diane Dreher
  • Every Day Tao, Leonard Willoughby
  • The Dragon Who Never Sleeps, Robert Aitken
  • Living a Good Life, Thomas Cleary
  • The Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra

2nd Shelf

  • Complete Works of Shakespeare
  • A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
  • In My Own Words, Mother Teresa
  • Learn to Read Music, Harry & Michael Baxter
  • The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy, Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson
  • The Essential Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Tantric Quest, Daniel Odier
  • Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
  • The Ecology of Commerce, Paul Hawken
  • 365 Zen, Jean Smith
  • Essential Zen, Kazuaki Tanahashi and Tensho David Schneider
  • The Elements of Zen, David Scott and Tony Doubleday
  • Zen: The Path of Paradox, Osho
  • The Little Zen Companion, David Schiller
  • The Religions of Man, Huston Smith
  • The Wisdom of the Sufi Sages, Timothy Freke
  • Essential Sufism, James Fadiman and Robert Frager
  • Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments, Kent Keith
  • The Dharma of Star Wars, Matthew Bortolin
  • Moving Forward, Keeping Still, Ariel Books
  • The Art of War, Sun Tzu
  • The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi
  • The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell
  • An Open Life, Joseph Campbell
  • The Joseph Campbell Companion, Diane Osbon
  • The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell

3rd Shelf

  • Thomas Jefferson, Willard Randall
  • Encyclopedia of Catholicism, Richard McBrien
  • The Bridge Across Forever, Richard Bach
  • Illusions, Richard Bach
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
  • Selected Poems, Rita Dove
  • How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Gelb
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
  • On Writing Well, William Zinsser
  • Letters, Principal Doctrines and Vatican Sayings, Epicurus
  • Epictetus: The Art of Living, Sharon Levell
  • The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
  • The Elements of Feng Shui, Man-Ho Kwok and Joanne O’Brien
  • The Western Guide to Feng Shui, Terah Collins
  • Taming the Tiger, Witold Rybczynski
  • The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene
  • How Rembrandt Reveals Your Beautiful Imperfect Self, Roger Housden
  • The Mastery of Love, Don Miguel Ruiz
  • The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Shiatsu: Japanese Finger Pressure Therapy, Tokujiro Namikoshi
  • The Handy Religion Answer Book, John Renard
  • Complete Idiot’s Guide to World Religions, Brandon Toropov and Luke Buckles
  • Complete Idiot’s Guide to Philosophy, Jay Stevenson

Those are the top three shelves. Three more shelves to list in the next entry…

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