CHOP WOOD CARRY WATER - A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life

Fields, Rick, with Peggy Taylor, Rex Weyler, and Rick Ingrasci

ISBN 10: 0874772095 / ISBN 13: 9780874772098

Published by Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1984

About this Item

A handbook filled wih wisdom and information for the inner journey of life. Mint collectible PB 1st. 7-1/2 x 9, 287 pp, b/w photos. AsNew w owner name inside else unmarked. Trade Paperback in glossy color illus wraps.

Seller Inventory # 40393

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CHOP WOOD CARRY WATER - A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life
• Publisher: Tarcher, Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874772095
• ISBN 13: 9780874772098
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st edition, 1st printing.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philos, Metaphys, Religion, Occult

About this title

Synopsis

An inspirational handbook to discovering spiritual fulfillment in everyday activities and applying ancient wisdom to your modern life.

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.

About the Author

Rick Fields is editor in chief of Yoga Journal, author of The Code of the Warrior and How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, and coauthor of Chop Wood, Carry Water and The Turquoise Bee.