Overall, it's a good book that teaches you a lot about the "now." At certain points in the book, you'll be excited about how it analyzes certain things and how thoughts that you might have fleetingly had ultimately form part of something significant like the "Now." Generally, it's a book that's needed these days as we are constantly immersed in the mind, in anxiety, in thoughts of the past and the future...

So what's the problem that makes you give it 3 stars, man?

The problem is that the book talks to you about the importance of living in the now and the positives it has, but it doesn't help you much to detach from the state you're in. The chapters go by, and you read about how beneficial it is to live in the now; it destroys any doubts you might have about accepting this lifestyle, identifying "consciousness," etc., but beyond advice like "Listen to the silence," "Feel your body from within," "Ask what is missing from this moment," it doesn't tell you anything else. In simple terms, it tells you how wonderful it is to live in the now, but instead of dedicating a larger part of the book to help you with practical advice to calm your mind and live in the present given the pace of today's life that makes it almost impossible, it tells you how beautiful it is to live in the present. YES, BRO... I KNOW IT'S NICE, but is there any serious advice beyond listening to the silence even when it's noisy, etc.?

And finally, the writing style is for people with experience in such books and generally in reading. My personal opinion is that a book should convey its message fully to both the average reader and the more "experienced." It's nice to throw out food for thought, nice to use "literary" vocabulary, but not throughout the 300 pages of the book... Perhaps the book is part of a meaning with some other book of its, or maybe the translation made it heavier than it should be, but as a standalone book, it's worth 3 stars

The first time I tried to read it until page 85, I had a problem. I couldn't understand what the book was about, maybe because some of the things it mentioned I was already doing without realizing it. I was in this pattern without knowing it. It was good for me. My evaluation has changed, in the beginning I was very frustrated and couldn't make sense of it. I didn't understand, I couldn't even perceive the writing style, it annoyed me so much that I felt like throwing it away. As the author mentions, the words are just stepping stones, you don't need to sit and analyze them in your mind, as the book also states, to understand everything. Even the body posture, which I was sitting in, bothered me immensely, I couldn't get comfortable at all. Until what I imagined and what I heard inside me became true and I was right. I would continue reading it no matter what happened, and I started again from the beginning without being able to explain it. I started to feel and accept, as mentioned inside the book, slowly reading and trying to understand the author's performance and what he meant. It's a difficult book, if you really don't want it and don't believe in it, don't try hard enough, the person reading it might get annoyed and draw wrong conclusions. But if they work with repetition and patience to understand that there is a lot to learn and feel. To understand for themselves some things that they may not have perceived or have the time and perspective for.