I saw a NY Times article on Tina Turner recently where she said that this book is one of the few books on her nightstand and it peaked my interest.
As an avid reader of spiritual books, I found Surfing the Himalayas to be an absorbing read that has many layers to it. Though it's a fictional account, it covers the core concepts from spiritual and religious traditions in an easy to follow format. There are also advanced principles that are woven in - but presented in a clever way that makes it a fun and engaging read.

this book is way deep but super cool... showed up at the perfact time in my life...

But master fwap

I learned a lot from this book and it had great messages, but I was not a fan of the writing. I stuck with it tho because of what I was learning along the way.

Learned a lot from the lessons about Buddhism but hoping for more of a narrative.

At first I enjoyed reading the book and wanting to know more. That's where things fell apart, the author lied about his experiance or just plain tried to pass fiction off as truth. Whatever it was it just left a bad taste in my...mind.

I was disappointed with this read. I felt the writing style was bad/awkward. The author would pose a question or observation in the narrative and then repeat the question/scene in dialog. All in all very awkward and I will not read the follow up book because of it.

I enjoyed this book and thought it was interesting. It definitely made me more interested in Buddhism, meditation, and enlightenment. Reading about Master Fwap always made me so happy. I think it'd be awesome to always be as happy as he was in this book.

Beautiful book...

Lenz goes to Nepal to snowboard, meets a Buddhist guru, who teaches Lenz the ins and outs of enlightenment.

Not quite sure how one hops on a bus in Kathmandu and gets up to "the Himalayas" to snowboard in the afternoon or the next day, but that's the least of the problems with this book, a couple of which are worth mentioning. One, the Buddhist master, despite a lifetime looking for his own master to teach him various mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism, was, after spending some time together in a Himalayan cave, able to give Lenz a crash course that pretty much brought him up to speed on Nirvana. I presume this is what is meant by the book's subtitle: A Spiritual Adventure. Two, Lenz's master has a propensity to levitate all over the place in this narrative, and, though a novice by Western standards, the master hops on a snowboard and goes off a vertical cliff, and then zips back up to the top by some sort of vertical float.

I suppose I could be liberal and view this account as a metaphor for True Reality being non-material, allowing the enlightened spirit to do all sorts of things that the non-enlightened would regard as nonsense. But I'm not.

By this narrative, if you don't buy this stuff, you're not enlightened. You're an imprisoned soul, clutched by materialism. It's sort of Alan Wattsy that way. A productive exchange is not possible when arguments begin with "Truth."

Saying someone or something is "self-absorbed" is sort of a put down these days, but its literal meaning does seem to apply here: The whole world is going to hell, and one's focus is on non-worldly enlightenment, including, somewhat, living in a Himalayan cave.

https://5cense.com/21/899.htm

This one will stink up the room. There are so many better books out there for those who are interested in religion and mysticism.