Chop Wood, Carry Water: A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life
Language: English
Published by Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, 1984
- Softcover
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xv, 287 pp. Sixteenth printing. The cover fore-edges are scuffed; the binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. "Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water; after enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.".
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- Title
- Chop Wood, Carry Water: A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life
- Author
- Fields, Rick, et al.
- Publisher
- Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Near Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0874772095
- ISBN 13
- 9780874772098
- Edition
- Reprint
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
More than a thousand years ago a Chinese Zen Master wrote:
Magical Power, Marvelous 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 lives. 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 checkbook; 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 fulfillment.
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