Book Review: Practising The Power Of Now

I recently started reading the book “Practising The Power Of Now” by Eckhart Tolle. Here are a few excerpts from the first few pages.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly – you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.
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The essence of what I am saying here cannot be understood by the mind. The moment you grasp it, there is a shift in consciousness from mind to Being, from time to prescence.

This book is an enormous fraud. The fraud consists of using words to destroy their meaning, of using thought to dismiss it as unimportant. The purpose of this book - as it openly claims - is to discredit the mind by using the mind. No honest person can claim to understand this verbal garbage, since most of it is without content, and certainly no honest person can write it.

Note: I will not waste my time reading the whole book or analyzing in detail the contradictions and senselessness that is presented as enlightenment. As such it is probably a little unfair to call this post a book review – unfair for the readers who might have expected more detailed treatment; not unfair for the book which deserves no greater consideration.