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Summary: It liberated me...it could liberate you too!
Review: An amazing little book. It liberated me from a morass by supplying "right" mental models to replace my "wrong" ones. Try it with openness. It could liberate you!
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Summary: Excellent read, not what you'd expect.
Review: I have read this book twice and thoroughly enjoyed it both times. Dr. Kopp is able to demystify the process of psychotherapy through his experiences as a psychiatrist and human being. The stories related are thought provoking, inspiring and enlightening. It also includes the author's "Eschatological Laundry List". Anyone seeking a better understanding of themselves and their lives will reward themselves by reading this book.
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Summary: nice read to learn a lot from
Review: i read this book for a report and found it right on with a lot of good ideas. it teaches you to be free which is by far the most important of all things. live your life the way you want to and always be happy. it includes the eschatological laundry list and has my favorite qoute "you are free to do whatever you like. you need only face the consequences." i have always lived by this and now its in a book. ok the book was before i was born but what it goes to show you that i can learn a lot of things on my own and it is comparable to what other will learn on their own. this is what the book is all about!
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Summary: This was the solution
Review: If there are questions in your head or you are not sure where you life is at then I highly recommend reading this book. Sheldon does an incredible job of putting together a simple guide for better self understanding. After reading this incredible piece of work I realized that i was "just another struggling human being" and no longer felt isolated and lost.
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Summary: Who is The Buddha?
Review: It is easy for anyone to believe that it is always that other person - that one who knows something that we don't know; has something that we have given up on obtaining; or, looks like what we think is the best.Killing the Buddha is looking deeply within ourselves, accepting our limitations, our attributes, and everything in between. We are the experts in the journey of our own lives. No one else is.
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Summary: Excellent insights on the client-therapist relationship
Review: Just as Rogers was said to have taken the patient off the couch, Sheldon Kopp takes the therapist off his/her pedestal. A must-read for anyone who has ever struggled with the conflictual aims of the therapist and client in a therapeutic process. Unfortunately the latter chapters tend to be more autobiographical and the book loses some of it's impact.
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Summary: The Water-Melon Hunter
Review: Once upon a time, there was a man who strayed from his own country into the world known as the Land of Fools. He soon saw a number of people flying in terror from a field where they had been trying to reap wheat. "There is a monster in that field," they told him. He looked, and saw that it was a water-melon.
He offered to kill the "monster" for them. When he had cut the melon from its stalk, he took a slice and began to eat it. The people became even more terrified of him than they had been of the melon. They drove him away with pitchforks, crying, "He will kill us next, unless we get rid of him."
It so happened that at another time another man also strayed into the Land of Fools, and the same thing started to happend to him. But, instead of offering to help them with the "monster," he agreed with them that it must be dangerous, and by tiptoeing away from it with them he gained their confidence. He spent a long time with them in their houses until he could teach them, little by little, the basic facts which would enable them not only to lose their fear of melons, but even to cultivate them themselves."
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Summary: Excellent comments on the process of psychotherapy.
Review: Sheldon B. Kopp is an experienced pyschotherapist and has written a very insightful commentary on the process and journey of self realization as well as relating it to many other interesting myths, stories, and philosophies.
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Summary: existential living
Review: Sheldon B. Kopp narrates his existential voyage through the human experience. It is definitely not quite nihilistic, but similar. Killing the Buddha on the road means that no meaning that comes from outside ourselves is real. We need only recognize that we already have our own Buddhahood. The secret is that there is none, and no solution, and it comes down to just being what you are. His philosophy from his pyschological context has some of the right ideas, but he spreads some of the wrong messages. I enjoyed the book however. He uses the telling of tales from our ancestors, metaphors for our struggle to fit into existence. I speculate that this is to emphasize our story-telling nature as animals. With his version of wisdom, there is no guru to teach us and we are no one's disciple. In this he is the messenger of bad news and expects to disappoint those who search in life as if there was some underlying meaning in the world. He's sure that its in vain, and ultimately so are our lives. If you are someone disturbed by this, then reading his book will transcend those feelings. If you aren't by now... I recommend it ;¤)
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Summary: existential living
Review: Sheldon B. Kopp narrates his existential voyage through the human experience. It is definitely not quite nihilistic, but similar. Killing the Buddha on the road means that no meaning that comes from outside ourselves is real. We need only recognize that we already have our own Buddhahood. The secret is that there is none, and no solution, and it comes down to just being what you are. His philosophy from his pyschological context has some of the right ideas, but he spreads some of the wrong messages. I enjoyed the book however. He uses the telling of tales from our ancestors, metaphors for our struggle to fit into existence. I speculate that this is to emphasize our story-telling nature as animals. With his version of wisdom, there is no guru to teach us and we are no one's disciple. In this he is the messenger of bad news and expects to disappoint those who search in life as if there was some underlying meaning in the world. He's sure that its in vain, and ultimately so are our lives. If you are someone disturbed by this, then reading his book will transcend those feelings. If you aren't by now... I recommend it ;¤)
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