Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. The next time you sense a conflict brewing, when you feel things are about to come to a head with someone, just repeat this mantra to yourself three times, sincerely and convincingly – in any language you want worries will evaporate, like dew from the grass on a and your summer morning. And here I will refrain from telling you what happens next because it underlines exactly why the book and the precise way it is written makes it important. As always, he’s open, unfiltered, and really smart (I don’t always agree with him, and he can be a major old-guy-ragging-on-young-guys sometimes, but he’s always smart and thoughtful). The parables that Lindeblad quotes, mainly from the Buddhist tradition (as that was his training) are stories that many of us will have heard told countless times before in one variant or another.

I enjoyed the various parables that he's learned from his along the way, they illustrated how our lives aren't so different and we face many of the same problems. I found it interesting how he took the lessons he learnt from his life as a monk back into 'everyday' life in Sweden. But thinking back on all those times people/I thought of me as irresponsible, and all those times when I felt other people were irresponsible – both causing much internal suffering in me – I realised most of the time, it is not that people choose to be irresponsible.Björn Natthiko Lindeblad (Buddhist name Natthiko Bhikku, 16 August 1961 – 17 January 2022) was a Swedish economist, lecturer, and Buddhist monk. It's interesting to read about how his life as a monk is now helping him deal with his diagnosis of ALS and his thoughts and perspective on death.

How Emotions Are Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. It has a quiet wisdom that has resonated with readers and I’m always delighted to see a book about meditation, mindfulness and compassion in the book charts. His no nonsense, tell it like it is realness makes him seem so much more approachable than other big sports stars. He quotes one of his teachers, Ajahn Jayasor as saying The important thing here is not how efficiently we do this, but how we all feel afterwards. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. It's also 20 years old, which means much of the discourse he provides is not as relevant or accurate (although the disparity in the number of Black coaches and owners vs white ones is always going to be glaringly obvious). However many readers, including myself, were probably hoping more for the dirt on former teammates, coaches and media staff. Chapters were often based on wisdom he had picked up along the way from his teachers, and he shared his understanding with us whilst talking about his own life experiences.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Plain and simple, it's about how to relate to your own thoughts and emotions in a way that makes your life more enjoyable, more free, brighter, clearer, and wiser. The monastery served as a spiritual inn with many guests from Thailand and abroad, and Lindeblad appreciated the environment and the community. I was amused to read how difficult he finds meditation - if a monk finds it difficult, then it's perfectly okay if I struggle too!It is like a moral obligation that must be undertaken, something that doesn’t give the freedom of choice. I don’t trust life inherently, but I do trust my capacity to change, because I know how much I’ve changed – or rather learnt to understand myself better so I can stop repeating unhealthy behaviour. It it too bad he does not stick with a point long enough to provide more details or thought-provoking points for the reader. I quickly found myself reading with a green pen in my and because there was so much I wanted to highlight and quote.

A lot of suffering comes from the illusory belief that we can control our trajectory, and also from the avoidance of pain/death. That even the Buddha said that it is important to investigate our experiences, not to believe him wholesale.I’ve never felt particularly compelled to annotate books but I found myself highlighting lots of passages in this book so I could refer to them later. The result – here I have to give credit to the translator as well – is that it does sound like this strange Swedish guy is sitting next to you just chatting about how it was and more importantly how it is, and most importantly why this matters. I made lots of highlights throughout this book - sentences and paragraphs that I want to go back to, to re-read and think more deeply about. The book is full of wisdom and wonderful stories, many of which I had heard but I still enjoyed listening to again and pondering on their messages. I love Charles Barkley but this book is just a series of what feels like entries in his personal journal.