Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao

Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
by Wayne W. Dyer

Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
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Author: Wayne W. Dyer
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-31
ISBN: 1401911846
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Hay House

Book Reviews of Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao

Book Review: Living Tao is not "DOING" Tao, nor is it "changing your mind"
Summary: 1 Stars

Let me begin this review by sharing the old adage, "Those who can, do; those who can't teach." Or write 30 books and make endless PBS specials about how WE should all be living.

When Wayne Dyer first began his career, he really had some good things to share. His first book, Your Erroneous Zones, literally changed my life. But enough is enough.

I think what turned me off Wayne the most was his PBS special about this book. First, he proclaimed himself a "Tao master." No one who really IS a Tao master would ever call himself one. Second, he based his "mastery" of living Tao on a year of getting up every morning and reading from 10 different translations of the Tao Te Ching, thinking about it, and then writing his book, one chapter a day. Somehow, that makes him a master, an expert.

And yet, when you read this book, you are struck with several contradictions:

1. Words. A plethora of words. The true Tao is neither words nor constructs. Dyer has words, but his life just doesn't seem to be in alignment with Tao. Maybe the idea of Tao, but not Tao itself. I never ever get the sense that he LIVES what he writes.

2. Ego. Lots of ego comes shouting through the muck and mire of words. Yet nowhere have I found that he talks about how he actually "lives" Tao. His one example on his PBS special about this book was how he "taught his son a lesson" about attachment by taking his son's favorite tshirt from him and making a show of wearing it every day until his son finally decided Wayne could have the tshirt. How is that Wayne learning to be detached? He also talked about starting over with nothing.......um, a house in Hawaii is nothing? With all his millions of dollars, I find it hard to believe Wayne Dyer has ever started with nothing since amassing his millions. So again, he has lots of verbiage, lots of ideas about Tao, but I never once sense that he actually LIVES Tao.

3. "Do the Tao now". Every chapter has a "do the Tao now" section. If you're DOING the Tao, you haven't got it. Tao isn't anything you do.

4. "Change your mind." His entire book is built on the premise that by changing your mind, you can begin doing the Tao. Well, not the true Tao, because Tao is not a mental concept. It is not something you can change your mind about. If you are changing your mind, you are not living Tao. You might be making spiritual progress, but you still aren't living Tao.

5. His own "translation" of the Tao Te Ching. He can't do a true translation, because he doesn't know Chinese. He made a paraphrase, based on his understanding of the words ten others have written about the Tao Te Ching. All true students of Tao will naturally put the Tao Te Ching in words they can understand, but we don't call it a translation. If he were truly honest, and truly living Tao, he would have called it a paraphrase. Although if he were truly living Tao, I think he would have lived its wisdom, which would not be to write yet another book to make yet another several million on his "wisdom." Live it first, Wayne. MAYBE later, you can share your journey with us.

6. Make believe dress up and play act the Tao. His PBS special based on this book featured Wayne in bare feet and Asian-style clothing, with a feng shui-ed set. Just because he can act the part doesn't mean he can LIVE Tao.

All in all, very disappointing. WAY TOO MANY WORDS. By following his suggestions, you may learn a lot ABOUT the Tao Te Ching, but you won't really learn about living Tao. I would highly recommend books by those who actually live Tao, not Wayne Dyer who is more interested in the bottom line of money than in actually living Tao.

Summary of Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao

Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our existence. The classic text of these 81 verses, called the Tao Te Ching or the Great Way, offers advice and guidance that is balanced, moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working for the good.
In this book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of the Tao Te Ching and has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today's modern world. This work contains the entire 81 verses of the Tao, compiled from Wayne's researching of 12 of the most well-respected translations of text that have survived for more than 25 centuries. Each chapter is designed for actually living the Tao or the Great Way today. Some of the chapter titles are "Living with Flexibility," "Living Without Enemies," and "Living by Letting Go." Each of the 81 brief chapters focuses on living the Tao and concludes with a section called "Doing the Tao Now."
??????? Wayne spent one entire year reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them each day and ultimately writing down these essays as he felt Lao-tzu wanted you to know them.
This is a work to be read slowly, one essay a day. As Wayne says, "This is a book that will forever change the way you look at your life, and the result will be that you'll live in a new world aligned with nature. Writing this book changed me forever, too. I now live in accord with the natural world and feel the greatest sense of peace I've ever experienced. I'm so proud to present this interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, and offer the same opportunity for change that it has brought me."

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