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| Walking On Water. by De Mello, Anthony. New York, NY: The Crossroad Publishing Co. 1992. | A collection of candid, short essays drawing on stories, fairytales, gentle jokes and Zen sayings on subjects such as, the Silence that leads to God, Happiness, Peace, Love, Prayer and Stating Feelings. |
| Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu. by Mair, Victor H. University of Hawaii Press, 1994. | Although less well known in the West than the Tao Te Ching, the work of Chuang Tzu is a classic of Taoist thought. Chuang Tzu was a philosopher who dealt with timeless issues of human concern: ambition, greed, grief, politics, love, stress, good and evil. In this collection of enlightening and entertaining stories (complete with a colourful and eccentric cast of sages), Chuang Tzu challenges our expectations and teaches us to experience life in a fresh, spontaneous, joyous way. |
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Wanderings in the Himalayas. by Tapovan Maharaj, Sri Swami. Bombay, India: Central Chinmaya Mission Trust. 1990. |
In this book you read how a man of divine vision beholds
Truth everywhere. Be it in the lifeless stones, or in the dumb trees, or
among the singing birds, in the roar of the animals, in the silent womb
of the jungle, in the bright expanse of the summer sky, or the
whispering darkness - everywhere, at all times, here is a master mind
who detects and perceives the play of the unseen in and through the
seen. Wanderings in the Himalayas gives poetic description of places of importance in the Himalayas, sacred in their cultural lore and in the traditional faith of India. |
| Wisdom of China and India, the. by Yutang, Lin. New York, NY: Random House. 1992. | The author traces the awakenings and development of divine consciousness in two of the richest repositories of universal wisdom--India and China--through wisdom tales, scriptures, and folklore. Their relevance with contemporary themes and problems is a ceaseless source of inspiration and wonder. |
| Wisdom of the Crows and other Buddhist Tales, the. by Chodzin, Sherab and Kohn, Alexandra. Berkeley CA: Tricycle Press. 1998. | From The Wisdom of the Crows to the slapstick antics of The Foolish Boy, these tales introduce Buddhist themes of generosity, humor, compassion, and life after death. They include Zen parables from Japan as well as Tibetan and Burmese folktales about the adventures of goddesses, dragons and people seeking enlightenment. |
| Wisdom of the Desert, the. by Merton, Thomas. New York, NY: New Directions. 1960. | The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Merton's favorites among his own books--surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit. The personal tone of the translations from the "Verba Seniorum", the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the Near East. |
| Wisdom of the Idiots. by Shah, Idries, ed. London, England: The Octagon Press. 1991. | A carefully chosen collection of illustrative stories, narratives, and anecdotes, which illustrate experiential philosophy and action training, used in Sufi teaching. The Sufis are the thinkers who called themselves "idiots" in contrast to the self-styled "wise". The exercise stories of the Sufis are tools prepared for a specific purpose. On this level the movements of the characters in a story portray psychological processes, and the story becomes a working blueprint of these processes... This book is such an instrument and this explains its extraordinary richness... The reader is thus enabled to move towards his own vision of truth which an ordinary book of instruction could not help him to attain. |
| Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics, the. by Unterman, Alan. New York, NY: New Directions Books. 1976. | This is a selection from among the most venerated writings and sayings of the Jewish sages trough the age that are accessible to the general readers. Dr. Alan Unterman, lecturer at the Jerusalem Academy of Jewish Studies, explain in his introduction the background of the Kabbalah, the received yet ever-evolving tradition of mysticism stretching deep into the Jewish past. Subsequent sayings are drawn primarily from the great Hasidic masters of the eighteenth century onward, whose words are rooted in the life of the common man. |
| Wisdom Stories: Meditations on Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends. by Hoffstein, Robert M. Sandgate, VT: Tsimtsum House. 1992. | Little children hear about these timeless tales while sitting on the laps of their bonpapas, and wizened old men study them in the Qabbalah. These stories are really a form of food, and just to read them is to be nourished. To see connections between them is to add to the nourishment, and to relate them to your own spiritual transformation is beneficial in an immeasurable way. |
| Wisdom Tales from Around the World. by Forest, Heather. Little Rock, AK: August House Inc. 1996. | Fifty gems stories and wisdom from such diverse traditions as Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, African and Native American. Fifty gems stories and wisdom from such diverse traditions as Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, African and Native American. |
| World of the Desert Fathers: Stories and Sayings From the Anonymous Series of the Apophthegmata Patrum the. Compilation. Stewart, Columba, OSB, trans. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications. 1986. | These stories are not modern biography; they are brief, anonymous anecdotes told, not to reveal character or outline action, but as edifying and instructive examples. They are a part of an ancient tradition of literature, in which words have a resonance beyond their surface meaning. They are addressed, like the sayings, to each one who reads them as part of the way to Christ, not simply as introductions to the person or event recorded. |
| World Tales. by Shah, Idries, ed. London, Great Britain: The Octagon Press. 1991. | Tales from the Occident to the Orient and as far back as Egyptian times with a short commentary documenting how the same stories have arisen at markedly different times and cultures. - emphasizing the story as one of the most enduring mediums of communicating wisdom and education. |
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