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A review by sesprit21
The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger by Leonard Scheff, Susan Edmiston
4.0
I decided to read this book in order to learn how to better control emotions and not get frustrated by some of the things that feel important in the moment, but are fairly inconsequential when you look at the grand scheme of things.
What I really liked about the book is that the authors almost always have a point in mind when they're writing. Although the book is quite short, it lays out what it wants to say in a structured and engaging way. Too often "self-help" books tend to go on and on with anecdotal stories and paragraphs of pointless information and you end up forgetting what the main takeaways are. The book also has engaging exercises throughout to help better understand the concepts, as well as to analyze your own way of dealing with anger and frustration.
I would recommend this book to people who would want to learn more about how Buddhist philosophy can help you limit the every day frustrations in your life and be just a bit happier.
One quote stood out in particular:
Buddhism takes the view that it’s foolish to take the opinions of the outside world, which may fluctuate daily if not from moment to moment, as any serious measure of ourselves. As His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, once famously said of himself: “One day Nobel Prize, next day pile of sh*t!”
What I really liked about the book is that the authors almost always have a point in mind when they're writing. Although the book is quite short, it lays out what it wants to say in a structured and engaging way. Too often "self-help" books tend to go on and on with anecdotal stories and paragraphs of pointless information and you end up forgetting what the main takeaways are. The book also has engaging exercises throughout to help better understand the concepts, as well as to analyze your own way of dealing with anger and frustration.
I would recommend this book to people who would want to learn more about how Buddhist philosophy can help you limit the every day frustrations in your life and be just a bit happier.
One quote stood out in particular:
Buddhism takes the view that it’s foolish to take the opinions of the outside world, which may fluctuate daily if not from moment to moment, as any serious measure of ourselves. As His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, once famously said of himself: “One day Nobel Prize, next day pile of sh*t!”