> f you want to write good fantasy, it helps a lot to include: Huge exploding fireballs. Cool-looking protagonists mastering the battlefield with confidence and style. World-altering stakes.

Maybe for people that don't subscribe to this, something a bit less... Action-y makes it more interesting.

The author has a background in Taoism. That book didn’t really make sense to me until I started practicing Zen.

Like most things in that tradition, it’s less about a “message” and more about learning something about yourself. Cf meditation.

please do not feed the troll everybody