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- From: CA.FER@forsythe.stanford.edu (Jennifer Gates)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Books, was Re: No-Mind
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 10:29:47 -0800
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- >>
- >>I have really enjoyed Dan Millman's (sp?) books. I have only read the first
- >>two, _The Way of the Peaceful Warrior_ and _The Warrior Athlete_.
- >
- > All in all, the book was worth reading. The ideas are basically good
- > IMO, but I find it almost impossible to believe that this is a true
- > autobiographical account or that his ideas were not cannibalized from
- > other sources. But who knows, maybe it is and maybe they are. The
- > point is irrelevant when speaking to the merits of the ideas per se.
- >
- Just a note... I've met Dan Millman and trained with him a little.
- He does not claim that the things that happen in his books are
- "true", he says that some of them happended and some didn't. The
- books are intended to express things about life.
-
- I really enjoyed the books myself and I don't worry too much about
- which things are and arn't "true". He does teach semminars based on
- some of the concepts in the books. I havn't taken any of them.
-
- Jennifer
-