The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz

THE FIFTH AGREEMENT

The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz

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30 May 2010

The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz

The Fifth Agreement is a New York Times bestseller , penned by father-son duo Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz . It deals with the evacuation and expulsion of beliefs . The author Don Miguel opposes the very foundation of baseless fears and questions the implication that preconceived beliefs have on our culture and traditions . The elimination

br of belief systems is a representative of the philosophy of the Toltec Path . When such a belief is ingrained in an individual , and is condemned to preemptive interpretation , the belief tends on to become a rigid theory . This theory hardens itself on the surface of culture and becomes a norm

This can be explained through an example . The Japanese consider the number four highly inauspicious and associate it with death . The word shi , translated as four in Japanese , has a homophone shinu which implies death in the Japanese language . Owing to this baseless correspondence with the ill-fated number , the Japanese eliminate the number four from their buildings

Similarly , the number thirteen is rendered as ominous in the western cultures , due to its association with Friday the thirteenth , and is often skipped when numbering floors in a building . Such cultures preserve their superstitions in old-wound beliefs that shackle the mere foundations of logical reasoning

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