Thought Govern Self Our thought can become a self-fulfilling prophecy for ourselves. It had transcended time and space, where the fabric of reality alters as your thought changes. The notion of achievement is founded upon your thought and bounded by your thought. Somewhere in your lifetime you are lost in an abyss of the oceans drifting to find reality. Many people try to grasp what other people 's have, other people 's reality; happiness, love, wealth, and character. the majority of those people are envious and they lack self-worth because they need other people possession to make themselves feels important. Their thought is clouded and unorganized so they couldn 't realize that the power of thought holds the key to greatness; whereas positivity
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He seems to pull out some of the text from different religious and self-help books and mash it all together. He would have made a larger impact on his philosophy if he were to give credit where credit is due. His words and ideology become transience and unreliable. His presentation of Buddhism is inaccurate, he uses Buddha words to support his claim that good thought leads to a good result "Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it" (allen14). This statement has truth as well as misinformation because Buddha attains enlightenment and went to Nirvana where there is a perfect peace. In Buddhism, spiritual world has good and bad things. James claimed that good thought never leads to suffering because there is no bad result. This is totally opposite of Buddhist teaching because the number one thing in Buddhism is experiencing suffering. Even when we have good thought we must sometime suffer in order to learn how every human being suffers; emotionally, physically, and mentally. One of the reason comes from suffering is desire which is the root of suffering. Before, Buddha becomes Buddha, Buddha learns about suffering, the cause of suffering, the effect of suffering and the way to end suffering. Positive thought can become ignorance, though time if you feel bad because someone said some insult, but you are thinking positively then you are not really standing up for yourself. You are sort of ignoring the whole situation, then later that person who insult you advances and begin to bully you
He seems to pull out some of the text from different religious and self-help books and mash it all together. He would have made a larger impact on his philosophy if he were to give credit where credit is due. His words and ideology become transience and unreliable. His presentation of Buddhism is inaccurate, he uses Buddha words to support his claim that good thought leads to a good result "Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it" (allen14). This statement has truth as well as misinformation because Buddha attains enlightenment and went to Nirvana where there is a perfect peace. In Buddhism, spiritual world has good and bad things. James claimed that good thought never leads to suffering because there is no bad result. This is totally opposite of Buddhist teaching because the number one thing in Buddhism is experiencing suffering. Even when we have good thought we must sometime suffer in order to learn how every human being suffers; emotionally, physically, and mentally. One of the reason comes from suffering is desire which is the root of suffering. Before, Buddha becomes Buddha, Buddha learns about suffering, the cause of suffering, the effect of suffering and the way to end suffering. Positive thought can become ignorance, though time if you feel bad because someone said some insult, but you are thinking positively then you are not really standing up for yourself. You are sort of ignoring the whole situation, then later that person who insult you advances and begin to bully you