The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry
by Stephen Mitchell (Editor), Stephen Mitchell (Author)
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This collection celebrates the radiance of the enlightened heart as it shines through the world's cultures and religious traditions.Tags
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Worth the purchase price (in my case, fifty cents at the Martins Ferry Library sale) for this one poem by Wu-Men:
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
Contains snippets from mostly longer works--more valuable to read them in their entirety, but a nice introduction to some that are lesser known.
So many verses about rain on the day that I read this! Synchronicity!
So many verses about rain on the day that I read this! Synchronicity!
A worldly anthology compiling sacred and mystical verses across diverse human cultures.
This book is an anthology of scriptures from religions all over the world as well as individual poets such as Shakespeare, Basho, Blake, Whitman, Dickinson, Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, DH Lawrence, and Robinson Jeffers.
An anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions--the perfect companion to the bestselling Tao Te Ching.
An anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions.
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Poet and writer Stephen Mitchell attended Amherst College, the Sorbonne, and Yale University. He has been training in Zen mediation for more than 25 years. His book, Real Power, uses ancient wisdom to study power, the key to business. Mitchell also translated the Tao Te Ching. (Bowker Author Biography)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry
- Dedication
- To Zen Master Seung Sahn, who taught me everything I don't know
- First words
- The Golden God, the Self, the immortal Swan leaves the small nest of the body, goes where He wants.
- Quotations
- Of all that God has shown me I can speak just the smallest word, not more than a honey bee takes on her foot from an overspilling jar. -- Mechthild of Magdeburg
Classifications
- Genres
- Poetry, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 808.81 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Collections of poetry
- LCC
- PN6110 .R4 .E54 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature German Poetry
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- Languages
- English
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