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Wisdom - Chinese Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems - Twenty Four Poems by Han-Shan, translated by Gary Snyder
Kanzan, or Han-Shan, "Cold Mountain" takes his name from where he lived. He is a mountain
madman in an old Chinese line of ragged hermits. He lived in the T'ang dynasty, and his poems,
of which 300 survive,
are written in T'ang colloquial: rough and fresh. He and his sidekick Shi-te became great favorites with
Zen painters of later days. They became Immortals and you sometimes
run into them today in the skid rows, orchards, hobo jungles, and logging camps of America.
The I Ching Or Book of Changes by Wilhelm/Baynes
"The manner in which the I Ching tends to look upon reality seems to disfavor our causalistic
procedures. The moment under actual observation appears to the ancient Chinese view more of a
chance hit than a clearly defined result of concurring causal chain processes.
While the Western mind carefully sifts, weighs, selects, classifies, isolates,
the Chinese picture of the moment encompasses everything to the
minutest nonsensical detail, because all of the ingredients make up the observed moment."
Wisdom - Native American Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters and Oswald White Bear Fredericks
"Laurens Van Der Post has deplored the loss to our society of the 'whole natural language of
the spirit'. In Book of
the Hopi, an ancient people, living in our midst today, are attempting to preserve what may be
lost to us forever.
Lacking that sense of proportion, we are endangered by a false set of values that may make
our 'Road of Life' very rough indeed. With all the teachings of our recorded history,
with all the finely developed tools of the mind, with the scientific revelations of
centuries of experience at our fingertips, will we fumble the ball when the moment of
decision arrives?"
Wisdom - Women Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A feminist counterpart to Iron John - or, how "a healthy woman is much like a wolf."
Estes, a Jungian analyst, shows how a woman's wholeness depends on her returning to the
sources of her repressed instinctual nature. To illustrate the ways of the "wild woman," she
draws on myths, legends and fairy tales from a vast and eclectic range of traditions.
Each story demonstrates a particular aspect of woman's experience - relationship, creativity,
anger, spirituality - to help women reclaim their wildness.
