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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This man is so ordinary which makes him very special at the same time, 31 Jan 2008
Living with Ozay from febr 2001 I am very blessed. What this man has to give you do not find easily. There are so many books on the market all making promisses. What makes this book different? Well it is up to you what you get out of it. Ozay leads you from blindness, conditioning, morality, mechanical use of mind to freedom, inner freedom. It is up to you what you get out of this book. It is all up to you what you do with each word written within this book. You can just read it and put it down without having any visible change within yourself. Or you can read it and contemplate, meditate within yourself bit by bit and transformation will take place. Ozay's life story is very interesting and Derek Cameron has done a great job by editing this book. If you are looking for instruction how to interpetate dreams this book is not for you. In the appendix there is one chapter talking about dreams but only very briefly. If you are looking for indepth information about dreams you will have to wait until Ozay's book about dreams comes out, hopefully 2009. Do you want to free yourself from suffering, pain, imprisonment of the uncontrolled mind? then this is the book for you. Very helpful read for people who are in prison. They will be able to indentify with Ozay very easily and draw strength from Ozay's experience to be free while being in prison.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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I found inner happiness by listening to this man Ozay Rinpoche, 1 Feb 2008
I found inner happiness, freedom, by listening to each word this man spoke. I had to work hard, to leave all my believes, convictions, morality, wants and needs behind, but I did it, and by that, you can do it. Thanks to this great man, I have found what I was looking for my whole life without knowing that I was looking, and what I was looking for. Hope you can still make sense out of what I am trying to say. Although I have heard Ozay's story at first hand, the book is very entertaining. It took me on a journey on which I experienced strong emotions, it made me laugh out loud and giggle, while reading about all the mischieve Ozay got up to as a young boy. Ozay relates all his stories to spiritual awareness. We can all relate to his story no matter how and where we grew up. While I was shopping, I became aware that I was longing to return home. I was longing to know what was going to happen next upon Ozay's journey, and by that on my own journey. No matter what you do, or do not do, this book will make something happen within you, as it did in me.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Innocence: Lost and found, 11 Aug 2008
Although I grew up with the author and shared some of the experiences featured in this book, I feel compelled to comment on what I feel is a remarkable achievement and an important document.
If you enjoy adventure stories, then you will find adventure in this book.
Whether you are of a religious persuasion or not matters little, because the story has universal appeal in that it is a profound exploration into the human condition - the psyche itself.
On reading this book I was reminded of William Blake's `Songs of Innocence and Experience'. Childhood innocence is lost through the corrupting forces of experience. However, the potential for redemption exists. The existence and subsequent assault on innocence is poignantly captured by the author through the recollection of incidents in his early life.
One aspect that is central to the author's experiences, and is, in a sense, intricately linked to the notion of innocence and experience, is the emergence of the `ego'. Ozay makes much of this common human trait and illustrates how the need to feed it and swell it, influenced his own thoughts and actions. Ultimately, however, he reaches the inevitable conclusion that it is merely a false prophet, an unreality, an absurd and dubious spectre, which invariably serves to destroy what is real and what is true.
Though I am tempted, I feel I must refrain from enlightening you on specific incidents and experiences featured in this book such as the circumstances that results in Ozay's incarceration. That is for you - the reader to discover.
What I will say however, is this: The author finds himself confronting a lengthy prison sentence. In the solitary confinement of his prison cell he remembers that he is claustrophobic. He is bitter and twisted, consumed with anger and hatred. One can empathise with his predicament. His body and soul is in agony as he paces the cell floor in a figure of eight to relieve tension and to prevent his body from physically shaking. The tortured figure is accompanied in the cell with a copy of the bible, and he recollects an article he once read on meditation. These two things, a copy of the bible and a tiny knowledge of meditation were to transport him through the walls of the prison and on to freedom.
Thus through the process of learning to meditate, an extraordinary inward journey commences. The fruit of this process is achieved only through brutal self-honesty, requiring courage and humility, discipline, and a dogged determination to succeed.
Eventually, and only after great perseverance, Ozay Rimpoche reaches the state of being that most human beings do not experience in this life - true enlightenment. He informs the reader that this is a state of bliss where such human traits as ego and arrogance are surplus to requirements. Therein dwells an unconditional love and understanding for all life and a requirement for only the basic necessities of food, drink and ones own company to sustain happiness.
I suspect that it is highly unlikely that on reading this book you will become bored or be disappointed. It is simply not the kind of book that one would choose to discard midway through - as I have done on many an occasion.
This book is intriguing, poignant, challenging, and above all, inspirational. It is also, in a sense, tragic; but wry humour is never far away. Ultimately, of course, it is triumphant.
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