Joshua's Bookshelf

The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger by Leonard Scheff
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I really liked this book, but my thoughts on it have much more to do with the format that I listened to it in than the content itself.

I love listening to fiction on audible.com but it has to be really well writing fiction. If it's an avant garde piece then I will easily loose interest. If it's a nonfiction piece I'll only pay attention to the bullet points. I have a tendency to journal while I read non fiction to process the ideas a work presents into my head. While I'm listening to non fiction on a commute I end up talking to myself in the car and ignoring half a chapter at a time.

That happened a lot with this book. I choose it for the Buddhist background and walked away with a few very profoud parables about anger. It goes much further than presenting tools to deal with the frustrations of daily life, and presents the idea that anger itself poisons the body.

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