Karina Sudarsan

Must Read- it has the power to transform Rarely does one come across a book which has the potential to be life transforming. David Hare's The Buddha in me, The Buddha in you touches the very depths of your soul, making you sit up, think, introspect, understand, analyze, appreciate, correlate, conclude, reassure, encourage, satisfy, explain, empower and above all make you feel so hopeful of winning and success when life throws curveballs that make you land flat on your face. Following are the reasons I strongly recommend this book by David Hare. - Whether you are practicing Nichiren Daishonins Buddhism or not and whether you are an aethist or not, you have been dealt out a set of cards with which you need to win the game of life. Self help books teach you that the power lies within you to win, but none talks about influencing factors or events in the universe that appear beyond our control. Do we have any power over those aspects which definitely have a bearing on our wins? This book tells you how you can win not just by taking full responsibility for whatever happens to you in life but also by impacting forces in the universe through the universal law of cause and effect. There is nothing more empowering than that. As David says “Personally I think that the Universe only fully rewards complete and utter conviction, For when we doubt, it knows we are not completely ready to receive benefit. Anxiety and doubt block benefit. Faith attracts benefit. The power to change is within us”. - The author has been practicing Nichirens Daishonins Buddhism for the last 30 years or so. His life is testimony to the success of various concepts and ideas of this practice. This makes it highly credible. - His reference to some simple yet powerful analogies like thanking the spoon (originally shared by Josei Toda- the second President of Soka Gakkai, the organization that propagates Nichiren Daishonins Buddhism today), Stop Painting over the rust, Stop shouting at the Shadow can have a powerful and lasting impact on ones attitude to difficulties and problems in life. - I read this book at a time when I was personally going through a crisis in my life. It helped me tremendously to approach this phase in a way I have never approached a problem in my life. I began to thank the universe for the problem. I became hopeful and believed I was on the path to something much much better. - If you are even slightly curious about spirituality or are in the process of spiritual shopping then this is a book which provides some very convincing answers to your life and its myriad mysteries. Thanks David for this beautiful and inspirational book!! #Buddhism #nammyohorengekyo #nichiren #mustread#spirituality #lifephilosophy