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Print: $16.00 Download: $5.00 COLD MOUNTAIN Transcendental Poetry is a revised and expanded edition containing 77 original translations of poems by the T'ang Zen poet, Han-Shan. The introduction includes a biography of the poet, written with information taken from the poems themselves. The poems were found written on rocks and trees in a remote, mountainous region on the China coast south of Shanghai. They tell the story of a gentle recluse and of his long life on Cold Mountain as a "guest" of nature, living in a cave and foraging for food. Though simple and childlike, the poems are majestic and have the power to lift the reader to share a moment in the poet's heaven. These poems are rich with metaphor. Each has been carefully translated and well-polished. And they are close to the heart of Cold Mountain. "I found that reading these transcendental poems was very peaceful. When you find yourself looking for deeper meaning in your life 'Cold Mountain' is the perfect book to help you find it." Paige Lovitt, ReaderViews.com
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Print: $16.00 Download: $5.00 I live on a mountain, among the pines above a sea of cloud. When the tide is in the clouds sometimes come close enough to lap at the boards of the front porch. In the distance pine covered peaks rise above the clouds like floating islands. Eagles glide past my door, deer eat from my hand. My companions are wild things and the wind in the pines. I keep a vegetable garden, cut my own firewood, fish in the stream, watch the seasons pass. When it's cold I gather wood and make a fire. I always love the smell of pines and woodsmoke. The road to this place is steep and hard to find. Once here it can be hard to go back.
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Print: $12.00 Download: $4.00 It is a tradition among the haiku poets of Japan, as life approaches its conclusion, to write poems expressing their views or feelings about death. These are known as "death songs." This book is a collection of haiku death songs and other poems, ancient and modern, that speak of the death experience. The collection began as an effort to answer questions posed by a teenage friend as he approached the end of a lifelong struggle with leukemia. Not comfortable that I could offer clear answers to these questions, I began to seek haiku death songs and other short examples of Buddhist poetry that might provide insight. The collection has since grown into this book that can now be shared with others. It includes selections by contemporary western Buddhists such as Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Richard Bach and Timothy Leary. This book is provocative, insightful, reassuring; not at all morbid or grim. It even brings some welcome levity in places. It is great reading for those dealing with mortality issues.
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Print: $25.00 Download: $7.50 After more than 100 years, Geronimo's wish comes true and his story of the Apache people is published as an epic poem! Geronimo saw that the Apache people were "vanishing from the earth." And he wished to leave a record, a formal record in poetic form, to mark their passing. In this book Geronimo tells in great detail the story of a unique people who sprang from the earth, one of the indigenous life forms, endured for a thousand years, and now have indeed vanished from the earth forever. Like the eagle and the wolf, there is no room for the wild Apache in the modern world. The Apache way of life is gone and it will never exist on the earth again. Yet, this epic poem, in the words of one of their greatest leaders, can serve to give posterity a glimpse of the way it was. This book is compelling. If you pick it up you will not want to put it down. And it will change your view of Geronimo and the Apache people forever. ILLUSTRATED. 38 vintage photos.
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Print: $14.00 Download: $5.00 This is a screenplay, based on the short novel by Paul Carus. It is set in India, c. 500 b.c., and is a colorful parable, which illustrates the Buddhist principle of karma.
Any non-profit group is welcome to produce this screenplay as a film or live production without permission from the author.
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