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Review title: Author has over-simplified
Product review: Author has over-simplified and compromised the essence of spiritualityWhen you claim well documented prior spiritual thoughts to be your own it only diminishes your credibility. I wish Tolle provided appropriate references - such as the Upanishads, the Gita, the Kashmir Shaivism, the Dhammapada and the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra - the first sutra of which documents the meditation technique of focusing on your breath and moving along with it minutely without falling behind or moving ahead - the idea is to discover the gap between pran (incoming breath) and apan (outgoing breath), this technique was used by Buddha for his enlightenment. Enlightenment means complete dissolution of the ego -not the refinement of it -- so when I see Tolle trying to pass this stuff as his own - it just takes away of his claim of being enlightened. Tolle regurgitates in verbally articulate manner spiritual gossip or as another reviewer put it a rather funny manner superficial "Hippy-Dippy wisdom".
