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Opening The Door Of Your Heart And Other Buddhist Tales Of Happiness. Ajahn Brahm (2004)

by Ajahn Brahm(Favorite Author)

4.3 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0733623115 (ISBN13: 9780733623110)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Hodder Headline

review 1: I re-read this book as part of the Whole Life Challenge - 10 minutes of meaningful reading a day. I'm so glad that I read it again. This book was a gift from a friend of mine and is an excellent read. It's not really intended to be be read cover to cover (except maybe after the first time), but it has a series of short vignettes and parables about topics covering fear, suffering, loss, love and more. Read it through and then come back to it as you encounter difficulties in your life.This time through, one of the stories really struck home with me. Basically, its about what is important.The most important time: now.The most important people: the ones you're with.The most important thing to do: care.If you can care about and truly be involved with whomever is with you (even... more if its just you) at the moment, you'll have the best interactions and clarity.I find that I sometime have such an active mind and I'm thinking ahead about possible negative outcomes and it just clouds my mood. Acting on that reading, I've actually been driving down the rod and thinking about something rather unpleasant and said to myself, "I'm driving now. That is what I need to care about."This is an easy and enjoyable read. And like I did, its something that you should come back to periodically.
review 2: This is a book that you can get as much out of as you want (okay, every book is, but this one particularly so). You can just breeze through it and in the end be a bit amused, if at all, and forget about it, or you can take some time to think about the stories' meanings and how you could apply them to your life.Results will vary for every reader, and so for me, some stories were completely irrelevant, while others made me change my outlook on life.Do not expect to learn anything about Buddhism per se; rather, expect a primer on how not to take yourself too seriously. less

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