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Title The enlightened heart : an anthology of sacred poetry / edited by Stephen Mitchell.

Publication Info. New York : HarperPerennial, 1993.
©1989

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 Talbott: Offsite Storage  PN6110.R4 M58 1993    Available  ---
Edition 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Description xiv, 171 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Upanishads. Golden God, the self, the immortal swan -- Two birds, one of them mortal, the other immortal -- Book of Psalms. Psalm 1 -- Psalm 19 -- Psalm 104 -- Psalm 131 -- Tao that can be told ; Every being in the universe ; Ancient masters were profound and subtle ; Empty your mind of all thoughts ; Good traveler has no fixed plans ; Some say that my teaching is nonsense / Lao-tzu -- Bhagavad Gita. Those who realize true wisdom -- Cutting up an ox / Chuang-tzu -- Odes of Solomon. My heart was split, and a flower -- Mind of absolute trust / Seng-tsan -- Clambering up the Cold Mountain path ; My home was at Cold Mountain from the start / Han-shan -- You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest ; Birds have vanished into the sky / Li Po -- Written on the wall at Chang's Hermitage / Tu Fu -- When the mind is at peace ; My daily affairs are quite ordinary / Layman Pang -- Singing image of fire / Kukai -- If you look for the truth outside yourself / Tung-shan -- We awaken in Christ's body / Symeon the new theologian -- Watching the moon / Izumi Shikibu -- Roaring waterfall / Su Tung-po -- Holy Spirit / Hildegard of Bingen -- Canticle of the sun / Francis of Assisi -- One instant is eternity ; Great Way has no gate ; Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn ; Moon and clouds are the same / Wu-men -- On the treasury of the true Dharma eye ; On non-dependence of mind / Dogen -- Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round ; Morning: a polished knifeblade ; When grapes turn ; Totally conscious, and apropos of nothing ; I have lived on the lip ; Forget your life. Say "God is great." Get up ; All day and night, music ; You are the notes, and we are the flute ; Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing ; Drunkards are rolling in slowly ; Outside, the freezing desert night ; When it's cold and raining ; Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence / Rumi -- Fish cannot drown in water ; Effortlessly ; Of all that God has shown me / Mechthild of Magdeburg -- "This mountain of release is such that the" ; "Love of God, unutterable and perfect" ; "But you who are so happy here, tell me" / Dante -- Betwen the conscious and the unconscious ; Inside this clay jar there are meadows ; Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat ; My friend, this body is His lute ; I have been thinking of the difference between water ; Swan, tell me your old story ; Student, do the simple purification / Kabir -- Why Mira can't go back to her old house ; Clouds ; O my friends / Mirabai -- "Be cheerful, sir" / William Shakespeare -- Prayer ; Elixir ; Love / George Herbert -- Die while you're alive / Bunan -- Poem without a category / Gensei -- God, whose love and joy ; It depends on you ; God is a pure no-thing / Angelus Silesius -- Salutation / Thomas Traherne -- Old pond ; Though I'm in Kyoto / Basho -- To see a world in a grain of sand ; Eternity / William Blake -- First days of spring : the sky ; In all ten directions of the universe ; Too lazy to be ambitious / Ryokan -- The man pulling radishes ; In the cherry blossom's shade ; Flying out from / Issa -- For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river ; The world is no more than the Beloved's single face ; The colors of tulips and roses are not the same ; Even at prayer, our eyes look inward ; Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise / Ghalib -- Before there was a trace of this world of men / Bibi Hayati -- Trippers and askers surround me ; I have said that the soul is not more than the body / Walt Whitman -- I dwell in possibility ; Not "revelation" - 'tis - that waits ; The soul's superior instants ; The brain - is wider than the sky ; Nature - the gentlest mother is / Emily Dickinson -- As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame ; God's grandeur ; Pied beauty ; That nature is a Heraclitean firer and of the comfort of the Resurrection / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The great sea has set me in motion / Uvanmuk -- I ask all blessings / Anonymous Navaho -- Gratitude to the unknown instructors ; Lapis lazuli / W.B. Yeats -- In our souls everything ; Between living and dreaming / Antonio Machado -- Buddha in glory ; Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were ; As once the wingèd energy of delight ; We are the driving ones ; Call me to the one among your moments ; The seventh duino elegy ; The ninth duino elegy ; Ah, not to be cut off ; Dove that ventured outside ; Silent friend of many distances, feel ; Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy -- Snow man ; To an old philosopher in Rome / Wallace Stevens -- Pax / D.H. Lawrence -- Treasure / Robinson Jeffers.
Genre/Form Religious poetry.
Religious poetry.
Added Author Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-
ISBN 006092053X alkaline paper
9780060920531 alkaline paper