I May Be Wrong: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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I think throughout the song it shows an agnostic or a skeptical Christian slowly gaining belief and becoming almost a 'blind sheep' type Christian. Let me tell you what this book 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. Man ska låta känslan bestämma oftare. I öst kan man använda ”det känns inte bra” som ett färdigt argument, vilket skulle leda till följdfrågor i väst, menar han. 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. What helps us respond to life as it unfolds? To live freely, stay humble and find comfort in difficult times?

We can’t affect all possible outcomes or make everything come together exactly the way we want. But we can choose to act from our highest intentions. We can take responsibility for the moral quality of our actions and our words. That’s no small thing. It matters a great deal. And we can all do it. No one else needs to change for you to become more beautiful inside. It really is that simple. The Sunday Times bestselling book of comfort and timeless wisdom from former forest monk, Bj örn Natthiko Lindeblad

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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). listen to "pyramid song" where he "jumps in the river" and everything from his past and future is there with him. in siddartha by herman hesse, the protagonist becomes enlightened by listening to the river. Such a pleasant surprise of a book this is. We go through the author’s head as you read this book and we get to see how his life choices makes him wiser every time.

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. We like to think we understand what's happening around us; that we can determine the path our life takes. But often, things don't go that way - in fact, they rarely do.

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Many thanks to @definitelybooks #pansing for sending me this review copy! I definitely had a good time with this. I often pass the ruins of a monastery when I’m out for a walk, and I wonder what it would have been like to live there four or five hundred years ago. Spending your days serving others and seeking your own spiritual salvation. I've sometimes wondered what it would be like to join a Buddhist monastery but the closest I ever got was going on a silent ten-day meditation retreat in an old boarding school in Kells, Co Meath. I enjoyed it, and it left me feeling renewed, but I didn't experience what I’d describe as a calling. Forest Monk

the song is most definitely a direct reference to advaita vedanta hinduism and buddhism, and many other forms of hinduism/eastern religions. He used to believe heaven did not exist, that there was no life after death. He used to be atheist. 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. Dažkārt cilvēkam ir iespējams izvēlēties ne tikai laiku, kad nākt pasaulē, bet arī brīdi, kad atvadīties no tās. Man šķiet, ka kritiskās situācijās, kad otra iespēja ir ciešanas sev un apkārtējiem, izvēlēties mierpilni aiziet, līdzās esot pašiem tuvākajiem un nozīmīgākajiem cilvēkiem, ir brīnišķīgi. Protams, rietumu un austrumu kultūrā pastāv būtiskas viedokļu atšķirības, kas notiek ar cilvēka dvēseli, kad tā atstāj ķermeni, bet, lai arī kurā pusē tu nenosliektos teorijā par pēcnāves eksistenci, ir vērts pieņemt nāvi kā daļu no mums dotās dzīves, nevis biedējošu tabu tēmu, par kuru atsakāmies pat domāt.

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 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) 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. 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. 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.