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Title: Seven Life Lessons of Chaos : Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change by John Briggs, F David Peat ISBN: 0-06-093073-X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing book
Comment: I found this book to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too Bad
Comment: I was really hoping this would be a good one. It had all the right qualities to turn out a great piece of literature. Unfortunately, it ended up being an insight to the not-yet-matured mental ramblings of its authors. Briggs and Peat insult everything from mountain climbing to the Rennaissance to the Mendelbrot Set itself. Then they glorify things like the Dark Ages! The book seems to be a struggle to overcome a Kantian mindset, in which the authors present themselves as incoherent and more "searching" than their proposed audience. The only reason I've granted it two stars, is that perhaps it could serve as an introduction to Chaos Theory, or more likely the philosophical disease of Collectivism. To anyone with any knowledge of Chaos, on the other hand, this book will leave you frustrated when the authors continually misuse terms such as "feedback loop," or when they generalize with terms such as "scientists found..." or "researchers say..." but fail to cite specifics. This kind of circumlocution leaves me wishing I had gotten more out of the book, and even insulted by the book's presumption that I would overlook such emotive language. Read at your own risk! I advise something a little less societally degrading. Look for a book that will actually teach you something about this amazing scientific discovery without slandering its position in academia and your own life. Try "Chaos," by James Gleick.If you need something that brings philosophy into a revolutionary science, look for "The Dancing Wu-Li Masters," by Gary Zukav. It deals with quantum physics rather than Chaos Theory, but in a much more respectable way.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Amazing Rose.
Comment: SEVEN LIFE LESSONS OF CHAOS : Spiritual Wisdom from The Science of Change. By John Briggs and F. David Peat. 207 pp. New York : HarperPerennial, 1999. 0-06-018246-6 (pbk.)
Writing in the thirteenth century, Japan's great Zen Master Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) told this little story :
"Long ago a monk asked an old master, "When hundreds, thousands, or myriads of objects come all at once, what should be done?" The master replied, "Don't try to control them." What he means is that in whatever way objects come, do not try to change them. Whatever comes is the buddha-dharma, not objects at all.... Even if you try to control what comes, it cannot be controlled" (trans. Ed Brown and Kazuaki Tanahashi, 'Moon in a Dewdrop,' p.164).
All our life is spent trying to make things happen. Nice things, to us. But how often do we succeed ? Isn't it the case that we almost always fail ? And given the enormous effort that we all put into trying to make nice things happen, isn't it puzzling that we so very rarely succeed ?
Could it be that our constant failures hold a message for us ? Could it be that we cannot in fact make things happen ? And if this is so, why is it so ?
Is it because that behind any event there are so many causes that we could never hope to have personally generated more than a few? And that those few are not enough to nudge an event in the precise direction we would like it to take ? A happy direction, and one that will bring good things to us ?
Rather than desperately trying to make things happen, wouldn't it be wiser to shift into alignment with the one big thing that is happening all around, letting it lead us along through the good and the bad, no longer struggling but calmly being guided, so that the event may unfold, naturally, like a Rose ?
If you are still with me and haven't yet read Briggs and Peat's marvelous and inspiring book on Chaos as the unfoldment of the Amazing Rose that is the Universe, and how best to play one's role within that ongoing unfoldment, I'd suggest that you get your nose into it now. The fantastic news it brings was brought for you.
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Title: Synchronicity : The Bridge Between Matter and Mind by David Peat ISBN: 0553346768 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Fractals by John Briggs ISBN: 0671742175 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story by Brian Swimme ISBN: 0939680149 Publisher: Bear & Co Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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