Past Buddhist Readings

I’ve started two different books on Buddhism but failed to finish either. It is pretty infrequent that leave a book unfinished but it happens. The first was a loaner I took from a dusty forgotten bookshelf at the DoE Albany Research Center. It was Getting the Buddha Mind. I was in my final year of studying Mechanical Engineering and got really busy and had to put it down. The other book was The Diamond Cutter which was a Christmas gift from my mother a few years ago. That one I put down intentionally after reading about three quarters. It did a good job of arguing the practicality of Buddhist teachings, but it was written specifically for an audience of businessmen and executives so in many ways it did not relate to my lifestyle. I always meant to finish Getting the Buddha Mind which was why I did not return it where it was found. Like I said, it was in some abandoned old corner office and was going to get trashed sooner or later. I like to think I saved it. I doubt I will reread The Diamond Cutter.
The two present different schools of Buddhism. Getting the Buddha Mind is Chinese Buddhism and The Diamond Cutter is Tibetan Buddhism. I’m clearly not an expert on either of these but my impression was that the Chinese Buddhism focuses on meditation and disassociation to the material world, and Tibetan Buddhism focuses on meditation and behaviors that will fertilize your life so that success and happiness will manifest themselves.
Meditation is essential to both schools. I am going to restart Getting the Buddha Mind this week and am going to attempt a morning meditation routine to go with it.