‫العقل الرصين: فن بناء القوة الداخلية للتغلب على مصاعب الحياة‬

by Ryuho Okawa, ريوهو أوكاوا, زينة إدريس (Translator)

"العقل الرصين: فنّ بناء القوة الداخلية للتغلّب على مصاعب الحياة" والكتاب تأليف الياباني ريوهو أوكاوا قائد ومؤسّس مجموعة "العلم السعيد" وترجمة زينة إدريس.

Genres: Nonfiction

134 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 13, 2021

About the author

Ryuho Okawa is a renowned spiritual thinker, leader, and author in Japan with a simple goal: to help people find true happiness and create a better world. To date, Okawa’s books have sold over 100 million copies worldwide and been translated into 31 languages. His books address vital issues such as how our thoughts influence reality, the nature of love, and the path to enlightenment. In 1986, Okawa founded Happy Science as a spiritual movement dedicated to bringing greater happiness to humankind by uniting religions and cultures to live in harmony. Happy Science has grown rapidly from its beginnings in Japan to a worldwide organization. The spiritual workshops Happy Science offers are open to people of all faiths and walks of life and are rooted in the same simple principles of happiness that inspired Okawa’s own spiritual awakening. Okawa is compassionately committed to the spiritual growth of others; in addition to writing and publishing books, he continues to give talks around the world.

Reviews

[Amit Verma · Rating 4 out of 5]

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This inspirational book is written by well known Japanese guru @ryuhookawa and published by @IRH books.
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Author is founder of @happyscience project that helps people to lead happy and meaning life.
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Mind is centre of our consciousness and being and nurturing a strong mind is biggest superpower one may possess.
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Book details his biography, his struggles, his father's influence and flaws and strengths of Japanese culture.
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Author is of firm belief that we improve as we age and around fourth decade our earnings as well as inner richness improves if we follow basic things.

Width of topics covered is staggering and still reader gets a smooth and simple reading experience.

He gives example of Famous samurai Saigo and Bush versus Algore to explain his wisdom.

Time tested principles like forgiveness, duty, discipline, bravery, hope, gratitude and reflection find place in his teachings.
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There is commentry on education system, autism, parenting, good business skills and happiness.

I liked part saying stable mind is unshakeable like an iceberg.
Good book to learn good things while enjoying simple writing.

Thanks netgalley and author for review copy.

[Alicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I saw this title was available for reviewing I just clicked. The title sounded like something I would really want to work on: having a strong mind. I have read about procrastination, anxiety, stress, habit building and such, so I was really into this one, but it wasn't exactly what I expected it to be.

In the first chapter, it introduces us to the idea that every 10 years we are faced with a life crisis, the following chapters focus each one on a different subject: "inner maturity", "inner richness" and finally "the power of a strong mind". It is a highly anecdotal book, from the point of view of Ryuho Okawa, founder of Happy Science (a new religious and spiritual movement, according to Wikipedia). This is a book not based on research, it feels more like listening to someone's advice on life, founded by his own believes and experiences. Most of the time the examples are too specific, meant for a Japanese way of life (with couple of them having extra explanations as footnotes) and more aimed at adults in their 40's or older than to any other demographics.

All in all, this was not a self-help book meant for me: it is not scientific, I can't relate to the examples and I disagree in more than one aspect. As an anecdotal type of book, it is inspirational, interesting and with some words of wisdom, but I wouldn't add it to my bookshelf as a self-help book for building inner strength. If you are interested (or belong to) Happy Science, this book can be a great addition because it is easy and fast to read and it contains a lot of anecdotes, specially about Ryuho Okawa’s father.

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm going to chalk up the bulk of my dislike of this book to cultural differences and being in the wrong age demographic. There were tons of "yikes" examples and other "I can't believe you went there" stuff. The chapters were short and choppy but well spaced making it easy to read even if the content missed the mark of what the title promised.

[Tiffany · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was deeply disappointed in this title. Concepts were vague, over-simplified, largely unexplored and stereotypical. I don't think that there is anything new here.

[_booksagsm · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Strong Mind: The Art of Building the Inner Strength to Overcome Life’s Difficulties is a self help book which is beautifully written.

As a reader, I have limited self help books but when I found this book from Ryuho Okawa, I could not resist it. This book is a reminder of a lot of insecurities we have developed as humans.

The book is divided into five sections:
1. Building Resilience against life crises
2. Living with a stout heart
3. Cultivating Inner Maturity
4. Developing Inner Richness
5. The Power of the strong mind

This book starts talking about how our life is in 20s , 30s, 40s, 50s ..and so on. Talking about the fear within, I found this book talking to me.

"Being content with What You Have is the Key to Happiness." We are in a rat race and each day is competitive but as I started the difference between living and competing for success, I found myself aligned to peace. One of the chapters state -"We can't have everything we want in life, so we should develop a mindset of being content with moderate success."

What I loved about this book is it's simplicity and straight forwardness to make oneself align to peace.

Recently, I encountered few incidents on Instagram itself, which made me realise that blaming others is not a solution. But, realizing when to stop is.
Each chapter is full of wisdom and if you are lucky enough to understand it, you might be a different person when you complete reading this one.
Lastly, I am in owe of the beautiful cover of this book.

Thank you @Jaico for this lovely book. Keeping it close to the heart, coz sometimes all you have is Self-Help.


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[Kriti Jain · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some chapters offer great advice on how to make my mind strong and resilient and also really good beginning with the overview of how our lives look every decade in terms of responsibilities and stages e.g. in 30s, 40s, 50s and so on however I failed to resonate with majority of the other chapters fully.

[Jennifer Neuhart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Will read again

I thoroughly enjoyed the insights of this book. It brought in some unique views, to include cultural things I wasn’t aware of. Sadly I had many distractions so that made it hard to follow sometimes, but on the positive, I get to read it again. I likely would have anyway. Now I have an added excuse.

[Kimberly Harries · Rating 4 out of 5]

Inspiring

Reading this gives me lots to think about and points in some helpful directions. For someone going through some challenging times mentally or emotionally, maybe at the beginning of hardship, this would be a good read.

[Alexand · Rating 2 out of 5]

كان عندي فضول من زمان لقراءة كتب تنتمي لكتاب شرقين , و هل الكتاب وجد فيه نابع شرقي مميز في اسلوب الكتابة

الكتاب يهتم بالجوانب الخيرة , موجودة فينا , ممكن اغرب معلومة مختلفة عن الفكر الغربي , علينا ان نركز على الاخرين لا على ذواتنا الشخصية , و ننمي روح الاخرين و مدحهم مستمر , اعتقد تلك الفكرة منطقية بحيث تقلل الخوف من الأخر بصورة كبيرة , و تجعلك تشعر ان العالم بخير و انت بخير , و تقوي الثقة لو قدر الشخص مدحك , فيصبح هو بالمقابل يمدحك مثل العدوة , فالبتالي تزداد بيئتك السلمية و تصبح اقوى و افضل من قبل.


, مع جمال اللغة و رصانة الكتاب , لكن الكتاب لا يتعمق في الفكرة بصور كافية
تشغر انك تقرا شذارت قليل ما شعرت ان معه ان كاتبه جرب تلك الخبرات بصورة كافية , اعتقد تلك مشكلة الكتاب نظيري اكثر من تشعر ان الكاتب يتكلم عن مشاكل حصلت معه او امثلة معينة او عنده توسع بعيد في الموضوع حتى يفصل في البنية الفكرية يريد يوصله

[Miss Ambitious · Rating 3 out of 5]

الكتاب ليس بالرائع ولا بالسيء ولكن أكبر
مشكلة فيه هي تطرق الكاتب للمعتقدات الوثنية... من أراد أن يقرأ له فليقرأ بعين الناقد الواعي وليس المستلم المتعطش لقبول أي فكرة