Wisdom of the East : stories of compassion, inspiration, and love /
collected and edited by Susan Suntree.
- Chicago : Contemporary Books, c2002.
- xix, 332 pages : 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Seeking first that which gives everything -- Going to prison -- Carvers -- Slowly it is coming -- The red-hot iron ball -- The wisdom of mothers, poets, and saints -- Mindfulness in everyday life -- Sripada -- Come and see -- Lost in movement, found in stillness -- My mother -- The Buddha's great heart -- Buddhism and the Roosevelt legacy -- Awareness: springboard for meditation and politics -- Asanga and the B yard -- Hide and seek -- Suizen: blowing meditation -- My music, my destiny -- Life as a work of art -- God is peace -- Saint or sinner? -- The life of Shabkar -- A knowing beyond words -- The peace of the Divine reality -- The Samurai and the Zen master -- You're preapproved: accept today --Who isn't busy? Finding our own true nature -- Sauntering with Lao-tzu -- The infinite well -- Being truly home -- The front room -- The key -- Death, not death -- Gone beyond:a question of letting go -- Beauty captures devotee and divinity -- Into the deep -- Honor the sacred feminine -- Memoirs of a lingerie monk -- Homage to Tara -- Just this -- A new view of time -- I was a Jewish atheistic ministerial counselor with a Buddhist practice who prayed to God, went with the Taoist flow, embraced Confucian morals, and frolicked with a Hindu -- Goddess or two -- Life as offering -- Composting light -- O night that unites: a personal appreciation of St. John of the cross -- The soft underbelly of life -- The green bean Sutra -- Grace -- The practice of compassion -- Ted.
English
0737305843 [newsprint]
2001047049
Spiritual life.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Seeking first that which gives everything -- Going to prison -- Carvers -- Slowly it is coming -- The red-hot iron ball -- The wisdom of mothers, poets, and saints -- Mindfulness in everyday life -- Sripada -- Come and see -- Lost in movement, found in stillness -- My mother -- The Buddha's great heart -- Buddhism and the Roosevelt legacy -- Awareness: springboard for meditation and politics -- Asanga and the B yard -- Hide and seek -- Suizen: blowing meditation -- My music, my destiny -- Life as a work of art -- God is peace -- Saint or sinner? -- The life of Shabkar -- A knowing beyond words -- The peace of the Divine reality -- The Samurai and the Zen master -- You're preapproved: accept today --Who isn't busy? Finding our own true nature -- Sauntering with Lao-tzu -- The infinite well -- Being truly home -- The front room -- The key -- Death, not death -- Gone beyond:a question of letting go -- Beauty captures devotee and divinity -- Into the deep -- Honor the sacred feminine -- Memoirs of a lingerie monk -- Homage to Tara -- Just this -- A new view of time -- I was a Jewish atheistic ministerial counselor with a Buddhist practice who prayed to God, went with the Taoist flow, embraced Confucian morals, and frolicked with a Hindu -- Goddess or two -- Life as offering -- Composting light -- O night that unites: a personal appreciation of St. John of the cross -- The soft underbelly of life -- The green bean Sutra -- Grace -- The practice of compassion -- Ted.
English
0737305843 [newsprint]
2001047049
Spiritual life.