If Rumi is the most-read poet in Americay today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is truly remarkable.
"If Rumi is the most-read poet in Americay today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is truly remarkable."
Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the bestselling author of The Essential Rumi, The Soul of Rumi, Rumi: The Book of Love, and The Drowned Book. He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers's PBS television series on poetry, "The Language of Life" and "Fooling with Words." He taught English and poetry at the University of Georgia for thirty years, and he now focuses on writing, readings, and performances.
The Soul of Rumi presents entirely new translations of Rumi's poems—published for the first time—by Coleman Barks, the man most responsible for making Rumi the bestselling poet in America. Focusing on the ecstatic experience of human and divine love and their inseparability, the poems range over the breadth of Rumi's themes: silence, emptiness, play, God, peace, grief, sexuality, music, and more.
This one-of-a-kind volume captures Rumi's beloved passion, daring, and insights into the longing of the heart as only Barks can do.
The gold of Rumi pours down through Coleman's words. The words leap off the page and dance!
Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the bestselling author of The Essential Rumi, The Soul of Rumi, Rumi: The Book of Love, and The Drowned Book. He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers's PBS television series on poetry, "The Language of Life" and "Fooling with Words." He taught English and poetry at the University of Georgia for thirty years, and he now focuses on writing, readings, and performances.
Coleman Barks has played a central role in making the Sufi mystic Rumi the most popular poet in the world. A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Barks's elegant and beautiful translations of Rumi's greatest poems, including fifteen never-before-published poems.
Barks includes an Introduction that sets Rumi in his context and an Afterword musing on poetry of the mysterious and the sacred. Join Coleman Barks and Rumi for a year-long journey into the mystical and sacred within and without. Join them in recognizing and embracing the divine in the sublime, in the ordinary, and in us all.
Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the bestselling author of The Essential Rumi, The Soul of Rumi, Rumi: The Book of Love, and The Drowned Book. He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers's PBS television series on poetry, "The Language of Life" and "Fooling with Words." He taught English and poetry at the University of Georgia for thirty years, and he now focuses on writing, readings, and performances.
Finally, an edition of Rumi's writing as stunning as the stories and poems themselves! The bestselling poet in America today, this 13th century Sufi mystic has inspired and enlightened thousands with his playful, passionate work celebrating the sacred in everyday life. Now the spiritual wealth of Rumi's work is accompanied by rare and wonderful art in the Sufi and Islamic tradition ranging from the 14th century to modern times. The Dunn's fresh rendering brings new life to this incomparable and intimate literature that has transcended time, place, culture, and religion to speak directly to the hearts and souls of contemporary readers.
Philip Dunn and Manuela Dunn Mascetti have created and authored many bestselling volumes, including Huston Smith's Illustrated World's Religions, Professor Stephen Hawking's The Illustrated A Brief History of Time, Thomas Moore's The Illustrated Care of the Soul, plus their own works, which include The Buddha Box, Kama Sutra: The Erotic Art of Love, Ganesha: Remover of Obstacles, and many more.
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Anyone interested in the inner reaches of the mind, the greater structure of the cosmos, and the spiritual evolution of humanity will find this book an informed and delightful traveling companion.
This is a book to puzzle you, delight you, and give you some "Ahs" in your search to meet yourself and the nature of reality!
Itzhak Bentov was a mechanical engineer who combined a brilliant mind for mechanisms and structures with a lifelong interest in meditation to describe quantum physics and the advanced states of higher awareness in ways easily grasped by readers.
LIVING JUICY is jumping for joy on the inside. Sark gives us the juice to nourish our creative souls with this map and miniature guidebook. Weekly topics include "procrastinating," "energizing," "adventuring," "aging," and "shouting." Each daily affirmation is designed to stop those dry and cracked feelings and give us those sweet, wild moments we crave.
SARK is a writer, artist, and acclaimed teacher on the subject of creativity. She was featured on the PBS series Women of Wisdom and Power. She is a recovering procrastinator and perfectionist who practices what she teaches. SARK lives in a Magic Cottage in San Francisco with her cat, Jupiter.
Our thoughts and emotions can take us anywhere. In an instant they can bring
us down or lift us up. If we don't attend to the mind, the source of all our
thoughts and emotions, it can seem like a runaway train. Yet when guided by
wisdom, our mind can lead us to awakening. How do we utilize this
resource?
The Buddha asked big questions concerning the causes and
conditions of happiness and suffering and how we can shape our mind and attitude
to support our well-being. According to the Buddhist teachings, when our natural
intelligence is sparked by contemplation and meditation, we discover insights
into what true happiness means—and how to achieve it. The distilled wisdom of
the Buddhist tradition leads us to clarity of mind, and step by step, the light
of our natural intelligence comes through.
With the humor and insight he
is known for, Dzigar Kongtrül engages us in a playful, and challenging,
investigation of disturbing emotions, our relationships with others, the trap of
self-centeredness, and the practicalities of working with a Buddhist teacher.
Most important, he shows us the subtlest use of our own natural intelligence—its
ability to recognize the nature of reality itself.
To learn more about
the author, Dzigar Kongtrül, go to www.mangalashribhuti.org.
Friend and teacher of the high-profile author Pema Chödrön, Tibetan Buddhist lama Kongtrül grew up in a monastic environment and received broad training in Buddhist doctrine. Steadily gaining in sophistication in its three sections, this slender book has wisdom for practitioners of all levels. The first part lays bare the five self-centered emotions of jealousy, aggression, attachment, arrogance and stupidity. The second, which delves into working with others, offers fresh material on working with a teacher, as well as understanding the pull of our emotions and thoughts in everyday relationships. The final part, on emptiness, is more suited to advanced practitioners who are ready to embrace esoteric teachings. Kongtrül's primary mission is to help readers train their minds in wisdom. There is a comforting bravery in his thinking about the difference between "trying to arrange the world according to our preferences" and "delighting in the way our experience naturally unfolds." (July 8)-Publishers Weekly-Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Dzigar Kongtrül grew up in a monastic environment and received extensive training in all aspects of Buddhist doctrine. In 1989, he moved to the United States with his family and in 1990, he began a five-year tenure as a professor of Buddhist philosophy at Naropa University. He also founded Mangala Shri Bhuti, his own teaching organization, during this period. He has established a mountain retreat center, Longchen Jigme Samten Ling, in southern Colorado. When not guiding students in long-term retreats and not in retreat himself, Rinpoche travels widely throughout the world teaching and furthering his own education.