Joseph Nguyen
Autore di Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering
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Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.Quite an entertaining treatment of a Buddhist world view. A good book for anyone seeking that Eastern perspective.
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.I think this book is a great intro into non-thinking. I do wish it would dive deeper into some topics. As a person with lots of thoughts that does a lot of thinking, I believe providing more to the reader to take in on these concepts is helpful as it does take time for the concepts to take over (and help the reader move into that connective non-thinking space).
As a short overview type of book, I think it is worth most people's time.
As a short overview type of book, I think it is worth most people's time.
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.I recommend this book as the author has some great ideas to help the reader simplify her life and to achieve a peaceful existence. The two main theories I learned from this book were to listen to our thoughts and not to cloud our thoughts by thinking about them. Also to rely on our own gut or intuition rather than overthinking things. I plan to try these things out and find the ideas in the book to be worthwhile suggestions
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- 4
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- #218,811
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- 3.5
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- 5
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- 5
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I’d read three already (and can only really recommend one of those, McRaven’s Make Your Bed), so I decided to see if there was any merit to the rest of the stack.
This one is a big NO. If you meld the blather of Chopra, Tolle, and Robert Lanza this might be what comes out.
“Therefore, it’s not WHAT we’re thinking about that is causing us suffering, but THAT we are thinking.”
Ffs. If you want to know what is wrong with this book in one sentence, this is one of several.
“In the previous chapter, we discussed how there is no right or wrong in this world. ”
Oh, there is definitely wrong, and lots of it. One this is this book. Idiot.
“This is why it will be a familiar unfamiliar feeling when you experience the truth.
Don’t try to use your intellect to figure it out — you won’t. As soon as you intellectualize it, you’ve missed it”
Strike one
“What I know to be the truth from the depths of my soul is that you will not be the same person as you were after you read this book.”
Okay, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” Other than that, the platitudes are continually annoying.
“I want to make it clear that this book is not the only book that contains truth. The truth lies within everyone and in everything. You must look beyond the form (the physical) to see and experience the truth (the spiritual). ”
Strike two
“Your mind has done an amazing job at what it was made to do, but now you may relieve it of its job because we no longer live in the wild where death could be right around the corner in a bush. If we keep using our minds, we will constantly stay in a state of fight or flight, anxiety, fear, frustration, depression, anger, resentment, and all negative emotions because the mind thinks everything is a threat to our very existence”
So stop using our minds. Riiiiiiiight. Idiot. Strike three? Seven? I lost count.
“Thinking, on the other hand, is the act of thinking about our thoughts. ”
I must admit this is pretty good blather.
“Thoughts create. Thinking destroys.”
But this isn’t. Idiot.
“Universal Mind is the Intelligence behind all living things. It is the life force and energy that is in all things. It is how an acorn knows how to grow into a tree, how the planets know how to stay in orbit, and how our bodies know how to heal itself when we get a cut. It’s how our bodies know how to self-regulate and keep us alive without us having to manually do everything like breathing and beating our heart. The Intelligence that knows how to do all of this and is in all things is called the Universal Mind. Many people call this God, Infinite Intelligence, the Quantum Field, Source, and other names. ”
Make up sh*t, try to sell it in a book.
“Universal Thought is the raw material of the Universe from which we can create from. It is our ability to think and create form from the energy of the Universal Mind.”
I really needed to stop there, but I didn’t.
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” ― Albert Einstein”
No evidence Einstein ever said this. Strike 17.
“We can’t solve problems by using the same level of consciousness we were at when we created them”
No evidence he said this either, but there is at least something close: “A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”
Nguyen is all about not thinking. Einstein was all about thinking.
“When Einstein was stuck on a difficult problem, he would stop working on it and play the violin. As he was playing, the answer would come to him out of seemingly nowhere and then he’d have the solution to his problem.”
Bullsh*t. He was always thinking.
“Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think that you can or can’t, you’re right”
Another one with no evidence other than an unsourced quote by Reader’s Digest.
“Stop thinking and end your problems.” ― Lao Tzu”
I guess being dead does end problems. Oh, and… you guessed it… didn’t say it.
“Create space by surrendering any manual thinking from the personal mind and have complete faith that your inner wisdom (God/Universe/Infinite Intelligence) will give you the answer. Also surrender the how and when the answer will come to you. ”
Flag on the play: unnecessary gobbledygook
“How You Will Know If You’re In A State Of Non-Thinking”
(You will find yourself watching FoxNews)
1.5 stars generously rounded up.… (altro)