CHOP WOOD, CARRY WATER - A GUIDE TO FINDING SPIRITUAL FULFILLMENT IN EVERYDAY LIFE
More than a thousand years ago a Chinese Zen Master wrote:
Magical Power, Marvellous Action!
Chopping Wood, Carrying Water...
The message is as true today as it was then: the greatest lessons and the profoundest heights of the spiritual path can be found in our everyday life. It is the greatest challenge for people living in contemporary society to find the spiritual aspects of working in an office, store, or factory; balancing a chequebook; raising a family; or making a relationship work. How can we make all these daily activities a part of the path? How can we apply the insights of great spiritual traditions, and our own experience, to the way we live and develop?
This book is a guide a handbook filled with information, advice, hints, stories, inspiration, encouragement, connections, warning, and cautions, for the inner journey as we live throughout our lives.
CHOP WOOD, CARRY WATER contains much ancient wisdom, but the emphasis is on contemporary perceptions. Many of our guides have been known to humanity for millennia: they are the world s great spiritual teachers- Christ, the Buddha, Loa Tse, Confucius. Others are contemporary teacher and healers, widely recognized and respected. All offer ways to integrate the events, our focus on relationships and family, our struggle with technology, money, politics and more- into the quest for spiritual fulfilment.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
FIELDS RICK
Rick Fields nació el 16 de mayo de 1942 en Queens, Nueva York, con el nombre Frederick Douglas Fields. Estudió en Andrew Jackson High School y luego ingresó en Harvard University, de donde fue expulsado en 1964. Tras mudarse a Nueva York se relacionó con poetas como Allen Ginsberg y Gary Snyder. Posteriormente se trasladó a California, donde participó en centros Zen en San Francisco y Los Ángeles. En los años setenta se interesó en el budismo tibetano y fue discípulo de Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Trabajó como periodista en Whole Earth Catalog desde 1969 y en 1991 colaboró en la fundación de la revista Tricycle. Falleció el 6 de junio de 1999.
