Now that humans are capable of relieving needless suffering, we’re discovering our positive potentials for great happiness and innate goodness. (¿Have you heard the saying? “Train your mind and change your brain!”) Might you already be a bit Buddhist, and not yet realize it?

Gary Gach discusses nirvana, everyday practice, mindfulness, breath, and other topics lovingly addressed in his Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism (3rd edition) to an audience at Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, 28 July 2009.