Handla som att du vill imponera på dig själv, följ din etiska kompass. Att göra något dumt när ”ingen” ser är bedrägligt, du själv ser och ska leva med dig själv i resten av livet. What helps us respond to life as it unfolds? To live freely, stay humble and find comfort in difficult times? Ingmar Bergman (vars Laterna magica jag läste samtidigt) och Björn Natthiko Lindeblad borde korsbefruktas.

Svarīgākais, ko esmu ieguvis septiņpadsmit gadus ilgajā garīgajā treniņā, ir atskārsme, ka vairs neticu visam, ko domāju. Tas ir mans superspēks." The narrative is structured loosely as the chronological journey of a Swedish man’s journey from the point he abandons a conventional, middle-class life as a budding economist and becomes a forest monk in Thailand. After nearly 20 years of living as a monk, Bjorn leaves the more formalised life of his Buddhist practice but he continues to share what he has learned through lectures and guided meditations. His life has two unexpected twists: one is marriage, after two decades of celibacy; the other is a diagnosis of ALS and his premature death in his late 50s. His experience of dealing with bodily decline and death - and not just his own, but crucially his own - were particularly helpful and worth focusing on. I found the chapter called ‘It starts with you’ particularly effective. Being compassionate towards ourselves is something we find hard to do. I know I do, and the below resonated with me. Is it correct to say “I can be wrong”? (I’m not talking about grammar, but about common correct use) I may be wrong' is full of humility and grace, and his writing style is warm and engaging. The book is based on talks he has given, and you can tell from the conversational tone of the book. It's like he's sitting beside you.

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A therapist friend recommended this book to me - and although I didn’t find it quite as transformational as she seemed to have done - it was well worth reading. It’s very accessible and doesn’t take itself too seriously, despite its focus on Wisdom. I was never promised a long life. We, humans, are like leaves on trees in that respect. Most leaves hold on until they're withered and brown. But some fall while they’re still green.’ He didn’t sugarcoat his own struggles in becoming a forest monk, no. When he told the readers his struggles of meditating and understanding different walks of lives that he has encountered, I thought that it was very well explained and explored.

This book really, really will stay with me forever. It's not only laced with the most incredible wisdom, but it's also gentle and beautiful and eloquent. It brought me so much joy and so much comfort' FEARNE COTTON In ‘I may be wrong’ Björn Natthiko Lindeblad does exactly that. After working as an economist, he gives up his promising career to spend 17 years as a forest monk in Thailand and in this book shares what he has learnt in that time. There’s plenty of humour in the initial stages as he talks about the problems he faces as a monk - he doesn’t take himself too seriously. Let me tell you what this audiobook is not. It's not about religion. It's not about telling you how to live your life. It's not about taking on a new set of beliefs. Plain and simple, it's about how to relate to your own thoughts and emotions in a way that makes your life more enjoyable, more free, brighter, clearer and wiser.

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Izņemot melnbaltos vākos ieskauto grāmatu no plaukta, zemē nokrīt pastkarte ar ierakstu "Ja tu lasi šo, mans laiks ir beidzies."... Tas viss liekas tik sirreāli, gluži kā aizkapa vēstījums no paša autora. Tik savādi apzināties, ka persona, kuras grāmatu es turu rokās, ir izvēlējusies aiziet no dzīves. Jā, daudzi autori ir viņsaulē, bet reti kurš iepriekš lasītājam atstāj ziņu. Björn levde i sjutton år som buddhistisk skogsmunk i Thailand och beskriver i boken hur han övergav en lovande bana som ekonom för klosterlivet och nästan två decennier senare ska börja leva "ett vanligt liv" med depression som följd. När han åter är på fötter får han diagnosen ALS och försöker summera sitt liv och vad han lärt sig. the waterfall in this song is no different. thom yorke is only taking the discussion from "pyramid song" a bit deeper. the underlying philosophy of advaita vedanta is that all is one and that we will return to this ultimate source when we die (that is to say when we leave our bodies). "open up and let me in" is referring to this. the material physical world is an illusion, like a dream, a shadow, or a reflection being projected by brahman, the ultimate. the truth is that the eternal consciousness which binds us all is infinite and without time. it is everywhere around us and it is all within us. I think it is about life in general and rebirth, over and over and over; reincarnation. Or at least the afterlife. Amnesiac has this undercurrent of ancient history and afterlife mythology running through it: ideas from Ancient Egypt, Classical mythology, Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism/Hinduism too.. for instance the concept of "samsara" makes a lot of sense in this context. "Samsara is derived from "to flow together," to go or pass through states, to wander.. a great revolving door between life and death and an endless cycle of reincarnation." (a surprisingly poetic description from wikipedia :p)

The title itself is based on a talk given by one of his teachers when he told the class he was going to give them a mantra. He said the next time you felt an argument starting, or a conflict brewing, repeat to yourself three times the magic words:From former forest monk Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, I May Be Wrong was a Swedish sensation. It is a book of timeless wisdom about how to handle the uncertainty that is a natural part of life. He used to believe heaven did not exist, that there was no life after death. He used to be atheist. open up and let me in" is another part of this believer's prayer to god, to let him into heaven. again he references a waterfall, which may be symbolic or not (Thom likes to add in random shit that sometimes is meaningless, as he has told several magazines). Lielākā daļa droši vien ir dzirdējusi par "Mūku, kurš pārdeva ferari"- biznesa vidē iedzīvojušies rietumnieki, kuri pamet visu savu līdzšinējo dzīvi, lai pievērstos askētiskajai mūka dzīvei, nav nekāds jaunums, bet Bjērna Natthiko Lindeblāda dzīvesstāsts pārņem savā varā ar savu vienkāršību un atklātību. Jaunais zviedrs, kurš, sekojot sabiedrības un ģimenes ceļa virzienam, uzsāka savu ekonomista karjeru, vienā mirklī (tas patiešām bija mirkļa lēmums) pamet visu (nonullējas) un dodas klosterī, lai pilnīgā askētismā, stingrā režīmā- pārtiekot no apkārtējo cilvēku žēlastības dāvanām, 17gadus pavadītu Taizemē, Anglijā un Šveicē. Bokens uppbyggnad är perfekt. Vi får följa en given tidslinje där Natthiko delar med sig av sitt liv och inflikar historier, lärdomar och inre tankar. Boken är så oerhört öppen, och det känns lite som att lyssna till en gammal vän eller förfader.

Easier said than done, but the next time I’m in a ‘heated debate’ I’m going to try to remember this advice. I can see how humbling the words are, and how they can defeat the ego. Life doesn’t turn out the way we want it to and we are essentially clueless. It starts with you Andra halvan är sämre, när författaren fokuserar sin egen individ, sin sjukdom och eutanasi, (det som var med i sommarpratet). Den delen får mig att tänka att det han kanske egentligen varit på jakt efter hela tiden var kärleken, och det jag tagit till mig från bokens första halva tappar lite av sin mening. Many thanks to @definitelybooks #pansing for sending me this review copy! I definitely had a good time with this. Avslutningen gillar jag inte alls. Det känns fånigt och koketterande att han skriver i en bok vad han vill säga till sin fru Elisabet.First of all I would like to thank Milky, CJ, Paco, Philip, Rishonly and Goodman (others?) for their comments to my posts. I’m very grateful for this. I was extremely surprised to learn, at the end of the book, that this book was actually written by Caroline Bankler - using the content from the author’s 2018 lecture tour and their conversations over the years. The book has such a strong, consistent voice - with a characteristic sense of humour and lightness of tone - that it’s surprising indeed to learn that it has been a collaboration. Having said that, Bjorn places a great deal of emphasis on the wisdom and practical advice that he has learned from all of his various teachers and mentors. I’ve often wondered what it’s like to get 'the call’ - the desire to drop everything and take up a spiritual vocation. I have a cousin who did get the call to be a priest when he had already finished training to be an accountant. At the time I thought it might have been nice if he’d been asked before all those years of studying, but I appreciate it doesn’t work like that. I realise this book has been translated from Swedish, and a fine job they’ve done. But there’s one really clumsy simile in the book, when Björn is talking about his health problems and how he ‘fell asleep like a clubbed seal’. Goodness me, in a book about mindfulness, compassion, and the life of a forest monk, surely they could have found a better simile than that. Divas pasaules, kas fiziski pastāv līdzās, bet garīgi nespēj pārvarēt milzu atšķirību aizu, ir grūti apvienot. Vai Bjērnam izdevās atrast līdzsvaru, darbu un nodibināt ģimeni- to lasi viņa biogrāfiskajā darbā.