Rich Brother Rich Sister: Two Different Paths to God, Money and Happiness

by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Emi Kiyosaki, Sandra Burr (Read by), Jim Bond (Read by)

Overview

Together, then apart, then together again, as a brother and a sister discover the riches of life. Rich Brother Rich Sister combines the inspirational, true life stories of Robert Kiyosaki and his sister Emi Kiyosaki (Venerable Tenzin Kacho) into a book that will reaffirm your belief in the power of purpose, the importance of action, and the ability to overcome obstacles in a quest for a rich life.

In 1962, the United States detonated an atomic bomb ten miles off the coast of Christmas Island in the South Pacific. From that moment, two people, born of the same parents into the same household with the same childhood experiences, found themselves on distinctly different paths toward God, money, and happiness. Robert became a world-famous entrepreneur, author, and teacher of all things financial. Emi became a highly devout Buddhist nun, author, and teacher of all things spiritual.

Their lives took them from the Big Island of Hawaii to Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, to the hippie communes in Haight-Ashbury and to a monastery in India, to private encounters with Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller, to a seat at the foot of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and ultimately back together again. Robert faced death in war, and Emi faced it in the form of cancer. They took risks, made mistakes, learned life’s lessons, and found their own truths. They discovered the peace, the happiness, and the wealth that come through living the lives they were meant to live, the way they were meant to live them. This book will inspire you along your own life’s journey as you search for your own truths, purpose, and path to wealth – both financial and spiritual – to achieve all the riches of life that were meant for you...and for us all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423372899
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	01/06/2009
Edition description:	12 Hours, Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Born and raised in Hawaii, Robert Kiyosaki is a fourth generation Japanese-American. After serving in the Vietnam War, Robert went to work in sales for Xerox, and in 1977 started a company that brought the first nylon and Velcro "surfer" wallets to market. He founded an international education company in 1985 that taught business and investing to tens of thousands of students throughout the world. In 1994, he sold his business at the age of 47, retired and wrote Rich Dad, Poor Dad and co-authored Why We Want You to Be Rich with Donald Trump.

Hometown:

Phoenix, Arizona

Date of Birth:

April 8, 1947

Place of Birth:

Honolulu, Hawaii

Education:

B.S., U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

Website:

http://www.richdad.com

Table of Contents

Preface: Two Worlds Collide xv

Introduction: For Love and Money Robert 1

Introduction: Sound Body, Healthy Spirit Emi 17

Chapter 1 Born into History 25

Chapter 2 War and Peace 41

Chapter 3 New Answers to Old Questions 61

Chapter 4 Heaven on Earth 93

Chapter 5 Transforming Paths 119

Chapter 6 Broken Promises 141

Chapter 7 Visions for the Future 155

Chapter 8 Food for the Journey 173

Chapter 9 Leaps of Faith 195

Chapter 10 Enlightenment for a Fuller Life 213

Chapter 11 Heaven, Hell, and Happiness 241

Chapter 12 Life and Death 253

Chapter 13 Finding Your Spiritual Family 285

Epilogue: Karma, Nirvana, and Past Lives 313

Epilogue: The End of Greed 335

Afterword A Change of Heart 351

I Am the Rich Dad Company 355

Editorial Reviews

The latest in the entrepreneurial Rich Dad series is not focused solely on making money. The production alternates between a female and a male narrator to mirror the brother-and-sister relationship of the authors. The combined effect enhances the contrast between the spiritual and secular perspectives of the writing team. Jim Bond utilizes a semi-robotic, slightly nasal voice as he recounts the story of a businessman's search for God in the midst of earning and investing his money. Sandra Burr’s delivery is gentler, soft in tone and moderate in pace, reflecting the years author Emi Kiyosaki spent as a Buddhist nun. The narration styles, alternating by chapter, give the listener the benefit of both perspectives towards material and spiritual aspects of life. M.R. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2009 - AudioFile

Sometimes, lives unfold together, come apart, then converge again or move in parallel lanes. In the case of Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki and his sister Emi, the paths were at times strikingly different. Born and raised in Hawaii, the fourth-generation siblings parted ways during the '60s. Robert joined the Marines and served in Vietnam as a helicopter gunship pilot. Then he became a very successful entrepreneur and writer. When Robert turned to war, Emi turned to peace: as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, she pursued a spiritual journey that seemed a universe away from the path taken by her beloved brother. In Rich Brother, Rich Sister, this loving pair relate what they have learned in the decades since they learned to be themselves.

In this absorbing memoir, a departure in everything but title for Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad), the investment guru and his Buddhist sister Emi narrate their life stories in terms of spiritual wealth. Switching off within chapters, the fourth-generation Japanese-American siblings describe their 1960s Hawaii upbringing, noting their independent rebellious streaks and attempts to challenge their parent's Christianity and the small-town lifestyle. Robert shipped off to Vietnam, a marine helicopter pilot with a reputation for hell-raising, before returning to the states to become a successful entrepreneur and student of visionary thinker Buckminster Fuller. Emi, meanwhile, became a single mother and an anti-war activist before discovering Buddhism, becoming ordained by the Dali Lama and working as a chaplain for the US Air Force Academy. Sister and brother reunited in 2007, when Robert offered financial support for Emi's heart surgery; the spiritual bond they discovered, and its lessons, led to this book. Emi now sees the need for "better bridges for our spiritual life and livelihood," while Robert finds that life is a quest for one's "spiritual family," a process that necessitates "finding the things in life worth dying for."
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Publishers Weekly

This book, a kind of dual memoir, is exceedingly hard to assess. It tells the parallel and strongly contrasted stories of Robert Kiyosaki, well known, if rather controversially so, as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, and his sister Emi Kiyosaki (the Venerable Tenzin Kacho), who enjoys an eminence of her own as a Buddhist nun. What unites them, according to Emi, is "the search for meaning, belonging, success, and understanding," but what remains with the reader is the powerful contrast in their approaches to life-the humble nun and the entrepreneurial pal of Donald Trump.

—Graham Christian

Library Journal