Easy Logic: Tibetan Wisdom for Happiness and Success

by Eric Brinkman

Have you ever wondered how to prove, logically, if something is true? How do we know if something is true or not? The ancient Tibetans, living on the roof of the world, devised a unique system to be able to do just this. Applications for the techniques in this book extend into every aspect of your life; do you want to figure out which job offer to take or why you didn’t get that promotion? Why you got sick or which exercise program is really best for you? If he’s “the one” or what’s the best way to meet someone that’s right for you? The ability to process information and arrive at a correct, logical conclusion is something that we all need and can use.

Now this technology can be available to you, in nontechnical, easily understood language. Learn how to form a correct argument, how to determine whether an argument is true, and what are the strategies to follow up on a line of argumentation until you’re sure your answer is correct, with the goal of discovering for yourself ultimately what is true and what is false.

186 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2014

About the author

Eric Brinkman is a business and life coach and author of Easy Logic; Tibetan Wisdom for Happiness and Success. A magna cum laude graduate of The Ohio State University where he graduated in honors with distinction by writing an undergraduate thesis on Shakespeare, he has also worked for McMillian Publishing, the world’s largest computer book publisher; IDG (the original publishers of the Dummies Guide series now published by Wiley Publishing, Inc.); as an Advisor/Consultant for the Computer Science Department at Cornell University; and is a founder of the Diamond Cutter Institute, a business and coaching company based on reaching business success through applying Buddhist ethical principles. Eric resigned from his job at Cornell in 2001 and traveled to India to study Buddhism at Drepung Loseling, a traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery reestablished in South India. As a speaker, trainer, and coach Eric has traveled extensively—over the course of the last 5 years has given lectures, taught yoga, and run coaching sessions all over the North America as well as overseas in Asia (China, Vietnam, Japan, and Mongolia), Europe (Spain, Germany, Norway, and Russia), and South American (Colombia, Peru, and Argentina). Has he also been the Director of the Tibetan Dictionary Hypertexting Project, an effort to create an online language tool for Tibetan translation; a yoga teacher (as a staff instructor with the Yoga Studies Institute); and videographer. He also teaches, practices, and enjoys training in traditional martial arts (Shuai Chiao, Tai Chi, and Systema) and plays the Irish whistle and flute. Along with coaching and writing, Eric is currently working on a translation of a Chone Lama Drakpa Shedrup text on Buddhist logic and is finishing a Masters degree in Shakespeare and Theatre.

Reviews

[Sugeng Shi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very easy to read and to understand peppered with lots of examples from daily life.