If you could recommend only one book to a very serious seeker interested in enlightment or the path what would it be?

One that has blank pages.

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If you could recommend only one book to a very serious seeker interested in enlightment or the path what would it be?

The book that your cat goes to sleep on.
*I'm perfectly serious.*

Joseph Campbell "Hero with a thousand faces"
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In all honesty, I would highly recommend the following:

Snow in the Summer (http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/jotleeds.pdf) by Ven. Sayadaw U Jotika.

Jotika was a Burmese monk (I would guess of the Therevada school), and Snow in the Summer is a collection of letters he wrote to his western disciples; I believe it was written in the mid-to-late 1980's and early 1990's.

The book is free to download, as it is a dharma-gift. Jotika's letters are mostly ruminations on his own feelings and perceptions of the world, but they are remarkably insightful - I have read his writing a few times, now, and it has always brought me a measure of mental comfort and insight.

However, it is only a start, if you are seeking enlightenment. Seeking enlightenment is a horse I've fallen from too many times, but I can say with conviction that no single book or teacher can show you the way; it requires time, paticence, effort, and the courage and determination to continue. Perhaps this will be a good start for you; it has been a comfort to me.

With loving kindness,

Brandon

Can I play?
Alan Watts', The Book: On the taboo against knowing who you are

Carlos Castenada - The Power Of Silence

Herman Hesse-Siddhartha

This should be complusory reading for those who would like to expand the mind & soul in equal measure, life changing, more like universal truth in unbounded glory.

There are this small comic book with very short Zen stories selling in popular many years back...but i am not sure if it's still selling. anyway, i am a much happier person without having to bother about heaven and hell after reading it

The book that told me that there was only one absolute in life: that at its limits all spirituality is the same.

Mystics, Masters, Saints and Sages.

Add thoughtless-silence, meditation, to that ONLY-absolute and you will sooner or later Realize it because YOU ARE and ALL IS -- the only absolute.

"dictionary of thoughts"

Night - Eli Wiesel