David Dockhorn

Non dualism and heart centered consciousness

Revisado: 09-08-23

This is a profound author. She draws on many great and wise teachers like Ramana Maharshi or Lal Ded, etc. but what she is teaching is very fresh. Trauma, depression and anxiety are treated with love. It's not just meditate harder and be silent and still harder. There are techniques and meditations to clean out the core emotional wound. A very scholarly and yet practical embodied heart centered awareness. The author has a very nice voice and does a great job with the presentation.

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The author vs. the sage

Revisado: 07-26-20

There were some real gems in terms of meditation and the nature of mind in chapter 14.
In terms of getting valuable information about meditation, this is a good book because Tenzin Palmo spent a great deal of time in retreat.
There were interesting signs of her spiritual capacity that were present as a child and the story is a good reference for people interested in pursuing a spiritual path.
It was interesting to know how someone eats and survives on retreat in an isolated cave.
It was interesting to know how someone plans/organizes a Buddhist nunnery. Tenzin Palmo was innovative and hearing about how she approached the Dalai Lama and other lineage masters with her innovations was surprising.
The sexism of the system and the lamas willingness to admit it and change was interesting.
Tenzin Palmo was very brave and opened the door/preserved the possibility for women to be Buddhist in some sense.

I wish some of the really good stuff had come sooner in the book.

I felt like the book presented things in such a way that there have been no spiritual women or enlightened women until Tenzin Palmo.
I felt like a lot of examples of women, like Krisha Gotami, Boudica, the priestesses of Isis, or the tantric cultures or goddess religions the world over in prehistory, that show strong development/leadership by women in the area of spirituality were ignored.
The book seems to accept its true that no women have been enlightened and then Tenzin Palmo tries to do it.
The book is very sympathetic towards women and gives good account of women's experiences in spirituality in terms of Buddhist nuns and what they tend to encounter, but at the same time, I felt like it gave women precious little credit and delivered a very pathetic story of women through history which I don't feel is accurate. Maybe a more tragic Riane Eisler approach would have been a better flavor for me.

The narration was really nice. The voice and tone and aliveness were all very good.

This book would be good for someone who is contemplating going on a long retreat in isolation or someone interested in the experience of women on the Buddhist spiritual path is like.

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Spoiler alert

Revisado: 06-19-20

Sit with your feet in the dirt 15 minutes a day.
Sleep with a grounding sheet and work with a grounding mat.
Why? The earth is a big pool of negative ions and it reduces inflammation when it receives our positive ions and protects us from EMF.

You can read this book for the long version of that.
There is stuff about selling grounding sheets and loads of studies that are reviewed as well.

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A shallow attempt at a modern tale of the Celtic

Revisado: 03-13-13

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Think of the teenie-boppers who like teenage vampire TV series.

Has Hounded turned you off from other books in this genre?

No.

What didn’t you like about Luke Daniels’s performance?

The guy doing the voice is OK but it's like listening to Keanu Reeves character from 'Bill and Ted's' try to play a 2,500 year old druid.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

A burning desire to find a better book.

Any additional comments?

The very modern perspective of the main character who is someone ancient just put me off. The druid gets mugged by a gang of faeries and the description sounds more like a fight between a bunch of jr. high school kids with ninja skills than anything from the fantasy realm.

Perhaps my imagination is simply limited but I was expecting something a bit more like Interview with a Vampire than Harry Potter meets the Power Rangers.

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