Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
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During his junior year at the University of California, Dan Millman first stumbled upon his mentor (nicknamed Socrates) at an all-night gas station. At the time, Millman hoped to become a world-champion trapeze artist. “To survive the lessons yet to be, you’re going to need far more energy than ever before,” Socrates warned him that night. “You must cleanse your body of tension, free your mind of stagnant knowledge, and open your heart to the energy of right emotion.” From there, the unpredictable Socrates proceeded to teach Millman the “way of the peaceful warrior.” At first Socrates shattered every defined notion that Millman had about academics, athletics, and achievement. But eventually Millman stopped resisting the lessons, and started to try on a whole new ideology–one that valued being conscious over being smart, and might in spirit over might in body. Although the character of the cigarette-smoking Socrates seems like a fictional, modern-day Merlin, Millman asserts that he is based on an actual person. Certain male readers especially appreciate the coming-of-age theme, the haunting like tale with the elusive woman Joy, and the challenging of Western beliefs about masculine power and success. –Gail Hudson
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I had the manner of language sent to a detention facility and
because there are CD’s included it was returned. I cannot
give this a rating.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Trash. Driveling, socialist, Marxist nonsense. The sort of thing that seeks to poison the minds of the impressionable and ruin capitalism, independence, competitive drive, and freedom from the slavery of altruism. This is one of the classics of mysticism.
I read through most of it once YEARS ago, before I knew myself, and thought it was cool, like all the additional brainwashed drones who would give it excellent reviews. Not because I really thought it was cool, but because I thought I was SUPPOSED to reflect it was cool.
I came across it again years later, and saw it for the spirit-killing garbage it is. And still read through it all.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’d like to start off my review by noting one thing about all the additional reviews on this page.
They are all written from the point of view of:
1. I exist
2. It was my choice to read this book.
3. It is my choice to review it.
4. I am deciding how I evaluate the information in this book….
and on and on it goes.
But what this book tells us, is that we don’t exist, we don’t control our actions, and the whole thing is a movie played by nothing, and watched by nobody. Therefore, reviewing this book, is contradicting what it teaches.
There is one awareness in this world. Only one. And it is observing this movie being played. The individual people have no power over what they do, anymore than Frodo Baggins has power over what he does in The Lord of the Rings. Inside the tale, he’s controling his actions, but when you come out of the tale, you see it’s all prewritten, and none of the characters can change what happends. It’s the same with what we would call “real life”.
99.9 percent of people who read this book, will reflect it’s a fantastic book because it’s well written, and has an appealing tale line, but 0.01 percent of people who read it, will come out of it realising that the Identity they thought they were is seperate from the Awareness that observes all.
Dan Millman, as fantastic a writer as he is, cannot do the impossible, and the impossible, is getting through to people that their character is not the awareness.
As you are reading this review, i’d like you to catch yourself reading it from persons four point I mentioned above. I can’t get through to you, because you are listening from the point of view that 1. you exist, 2. it’s your choice to read this review, 3. no matter what this review says, I still am who I am… and on and on.
That’s why the number of enlightned people in this world can be counted on 2 hands, because nobody takes on the possibility that they don’t control their actions, and that they are not themselves.
99.999% of humans have this brick wall around them, that all words pass through, on their way to them. The brick wall is made up of the same thoughts I mentioned above. Most people will never hear things, lacking knowing that no matter what they’re being told, they exist, and they are who they are.
So, Dan Millman did an incredible job, but for 99.9 percent of people it will not bring about spiritual enlightment.
Thank you Dan Millman.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a very nice book that helps people to become better human beings, I just wish I could correctly follow the ‘lessons’ this book dibbies out. It’s not that I don’t have personal discipline, its just that the way the characters act in Dan’s book is not condusive to modern living. I mean, I just don’t have time to sit on a tire all day to reflect about how to be a humble person. I have to work 60 + hours a week to support myself in a very troubling economic climate, and when I try to live like Dan Millman would like me to live, it’s just really hard being super-healthy, ultra-compassionate, intensely spiritual, super goal-oriented, etc., with all of the additional duties I must perform every day. In ‘Way of the Peaceful Warrior,’ Mr. Millman introduces us to a weird character named ‘Socrates’, but this character is not the real Socrates from Greek times, but is as weird person who works at a gas station.
Now, I sometimes exchange a few words with the people who work at the gas station when I go there, but they never seem to offer me too much advice beyond automotive products and food and drink and debit cards and stuff. I mean, they are nice for the most part, and intelligent enough, but I just dread that the sort of people Dan Millman writes about in this book are not real sort of people, so it is not honest for Mr. Millman to place all these demands on us to live like Ghandi when we have problems like terrorist hijackings and a bearish economy to struggle through. I mean, I reflect I am a excellent person at heart, but c’mon Dan, what am I supposed to do? I only get about four hours of sleep a night as is. I reflect I should be reading ‘How to Schedule three days in a row off of work in a year’ as a replacement for of Dan’s ‘How to run around town looking for enlightenment when you don’t need to worry about dealing with the pressures and realities of urban modern life.’ Sorry Dan, but we all can’t be authors with time to burn this sort of self-improvement stuff.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I don’t want to repeat additional criticisms of this book, but only to add an additional perspective. I find it hard to fathom how a young man who went to UC Berkeley in the ’60’s can assert that he attained a high level of awareness during and slightly after that period lacking once mentioning, or showing he had any consciousness of, the fantastic social forces and events that were occuring in that period: the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement, the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Movement, Gay Liberation, the Free Speech Movement (at Berkeley itself), the Black Panthers, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.–the list goes on and on.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5