The Ten Thousand Things

By: Robert Saltzman

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

When I imagine speaking to a person who for the first time opens the pages of this book, I think of telling that person something like this: “You are about to read an authentic and incredibly lucid account of what it is like to live in this world as an awakened being while simultaneously functioning as a personality with all of the usual habits and peculiarities of an individual self.” Robert’s way of describing his understanding of the human existence from the point of view of an awakened personality is a revelation. His book is a fresh look at the questions that occur to anyone who thinks deeply about these matters, questions about free will, self-determination, destiny, choice, and who are we anyway.

I believe this is a “breakthrough book.” Robert’s style of writing about such ephemeral and difficult subjects as awareness and consciousness is honest, concise, and accurate. His ability to describe his experiences of living in a reality quite different from conventional ways of thinking is brilliantly unusual. On first encountering Robert Saltzman’s work, I am reminded of the same feelings of discovery, delight and excitement that I remember from meeting Alan Watts’ “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Krishnamurti’s “Freedom from the Known,” and Chögyam Trungpa’s “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.”

His clarity of mind shines brightly through every sentence in this book. His skill at making clear the most difficult ramifications and subtleties of awakened consciousness is so free of conventional cluttered thinking, so free of habitual phrases, so free of the taint of religious dogma and the conventional ways of speaking of such difficult matters, that this book stands out for me as an entirely fresh and illuminated exposition of awakened consciousness: an awakened understanding of what it is to be human.
—Dr. Robert K. Hall

No clarity of thought, and it's a ROBOT

First, the narration - it's awful. It's a robot, not a human, and that should stop you there.

But the book itself is awful. There's NO "clarity of thought" - the author slams ALL forms of philosophical, spiritual, or religious thought, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam or Judaism, while claiming, on or off, that he isn't an atheist, either. He doesn't know what he is.

I am Second Vatican Council Catholic-raised, and a Zen practitioner, and open to spiritual philosophy of all ilks. But this guy is nothing, doesn't know what he is, yet mocks those who seek.

I had to stop listening to his nonsensical ramblings and rantings halfway through. Glad this book was free.

AND AI/ROBOT RECORDINGS ARE THE WORST.