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Rinpoche's Remarkable Ten-Week Weight Loss Clinic
Rinpoche's Remarkable TenWeek Weight Loss Clinic Author:Roland Merullo Rinpoche's RemarkableTen-Week Weight Loss Clinic brings back two main characters from Roland Merullo's beloved Buddha Trilogy (Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner with Buddha). This time, though,instead of cruising the American road together, Otto Ringling and Volya Rinpoche are part of the famous meditation master's offbeat weight loss cli... more »nic, held over the course of ten Saturdays in a New York City yoga studio. "These characters have been alive in my imagination fora decade now," Merullo says, "and I just had the sense that Rinpoche,out of his deep compassion, would try to do something about America's obesity epidemic. I've also been fascinated for a long time by the way addiction works- -- whether it's addiction to food, drugs, alcohol, sex, work, or anything else -- the way it occupies the mind and moves us to do things we know we would be better off not doing. I've always wondered what advice Rinpoche would give on the subject."« less