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Books - Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More
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I finished Zero Limits July 25. Joe Vitale's a very successful salesmen and his mantra "I love you," is good; but he never clarifies what he means by love, as many have done before. Decades earlier Joseph Campbell distinguished erotic love, romantic love, agape love and love as duty. I further distinguish amor from romantic love in my book on values. We can only assume that Vitale meant agape love, or unconditional love toward the Divine. Finally, in the first appendix he claims saying, "I love you to the Divine cleans everything in you so you can experience the miracle of this moment. The idea is to love everything."
Love everything? What does he mean? Are we to love suicide bombers, pedophiles and serial killers? I wrote: "We must learn to appreciate the evil in the world." However, in no way did I imply that we are to love evil. I clarified "appreciate" as "To assess evil means to recognize it like a doctor diagnoses the symptoms of a disease, but it does not mean to condone it." And, I am reminded of Philip Hallie, in Moyer's video On Evil, " The power of love did not stop Hitler, it took decent murderers like me." Vitale's embracing everything with love is too vague and mystical. Dr. Len is quoted as saying, "When I'm clear I will see them as God sees them." (p.70) He will see as God sees? Is that not mysticism?
He use of "Divine" is extensive, yet the word "God" is rarely mentioned. Is the Divine his substitute for the word "God?" We can be connected with the Divine (p. 192) This reminds me of the Latin meaning of "religio:" meaning to link or to connect one with God. Campbell taught me this. What of Vitale's "Killing the Divine?" This is pure Zen Buddhism: If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him! Campbell clarifies this in The Power of Myth, as meaning that you have to transcend your image of God to experience eternity.
Most noteworthy and most controversial is his statement: "You are 100% responsible for all you experience," (p. 200); but it is not new. Read Nietzsche and his "amor fati" - love your fate. Or read my discussion of Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus.
And is this something new: "if I could get through the day without having some judgment of someone." (p. 46) Jesus said: "Judge not and ye shall not be judged. Condemn not and ye shall not be condemned"
The choice he writes is to live by memories or by inspiration. (p. 154) I see this as the choice to live by habits versus creativity. It is egoism with its desires and fears that constantly judges and is closed to the Creative Spirit, or God. By overcoming egoism one becomes open and connected (religio) to the Creator and become living creative spirits. As Dr. Len points out "only when your mind is at zero can creation take place, and it is called inspire." (p.72) But, there are traditional methods of becoming open, or awakened. One is doing Zen meditation from the Mahayana Buddhist tradition.
Perhaps, his most significant point is his criticism of his own book The Attractor Factor, in which he praises the power of intention. Now: "Intention is a fool's game," he wrote. "The real source of power is inspiration." (p.174) Why? Intention stems from egoism. "Inspiration" comes from the Latin "spirare" to breath; hence "inspirare" to breath in or with spirit, or to breath divine feeling into." The real choice is whether to be open and connected with the Spirit, or to be closed.
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I like very much the experience of the doctor Ihaleakala Hew Len. This book gave me a real way to improve myself. I know about Ho'opono and it is differernt but I am looking forward tips to go further in my improvement
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I just couldn't put it down! I got the book last summer (2007) and I did not fines it, and I started reading it 3 day's ago and I just can't stop reading and now I'm reading it all over again.
My first book from Joe was the Attractor Factor and next on was Life's Missing Instruction Manual and I really love that book! and now the Zero limits is blowing my mind with new things and life!
thank you Joe
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I have read some of Joe Vitale's books and listened to many podcasts and interviews, which have some really excellent information in them. So when I ordered this book I was very excited, and excited to learn about anything spiritual and Hawaiian (I'm an ex-resident).
This book at one point completely contradicted anything Joe mentioned in his Attractor Factor and The Key books. AT that point, he lost almost all credibility with me. I found some small red flags in the two previous books I just mentioned but this book just screamed that he will write or record anything to make money and doesn't care to get honest information out there to help anyone but himself. Truly disappointing. I felt like a "sucker" after reading this one.
I don't know a lot about Ho'oponopono, but I honestly dont think that what was written in this book is the way of Ho'oponopono. If I were Joe I would be very embarrassed. There was the usual barrage of advertising his books and website throughout the book, as well as more websites and books to buy from other authors. I feel like I bought a book that was basically a bunch of advertisements for things I do not want, and information that is not correct. It made the red flags that popped up in his other books (and I do believe in the Law of Attraction and a lot of what he teaches in The attractor factor and the Key because I've studied other authors and practiced it myself for years) turn into giant alarms. Sadly, I think Joe is in it for himself to make money and to help his friends become rich also. Between buying his books and James Arthur Ray's books and products, I don't know who is the bigger con artist. I'm done with both of them. If you read either of their books, you will see that there are so many with the exact wordings that it makes you wonder who is copying whom?
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The day I received this book, I completed reading it--highlighter in hand. The content made sense to me. It fit into the larger picture or view I have of life, how we're all connected because, ultimately, we are only separated by our perceptions. As I did my morning walk the next day, I used the four statements about everyone and everything I saw. I touched and held the feeling that everything is a miracle. It was quite a walk. This is quite a book. The part about Inspiration and Intention is, alone, worth "the price of admission." And Joe Vitale . . . Thank you--for this and all the other remarkable things you share.
Joyce Shafer, Author and Freelance Writing Services
http://www.freewebs.com/editmybookandmore
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