
Sailing Home
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Norman Fischer deftly incorporates Buddhist, Judaic, Christian, and popular thought, as well as his own unique and sympathetic understanding of life, in his reinterpretation of Odysseus's familiar wanderings as lessons that everyone can use. We see how to resist the seduction of the Sirens' song to stop sailing and give up; how to bide our time in a situation and wait for the right opportunity -- as Odysseus does when faced with the murderous, one-eyed Cyclops; and how to reassess our story and rediscover our purpose and identity if, like the Lotus-Eaters, we have forgotten the past.
With meditations that yield personal revelations, illuminating anecdotes from Fischer's and his students' lives, and stories from many wisdom traditions, Sailing Home shows the way to greater purpose in your own life.You will learn a new way to view your path, when to wait and when to act, when to speak your mind and when to exercise discretion, how to draw on your innate strength and distinguish between truth and deception, and how to deal with aging and changing relationships. Sailing Home provides the courage you need for your journey, to renew bonds with your loved ones, and to make the latter portion of life a heartfelt time of spirit and love, so that -- just as Odysseus does -- you can defeat the forces of entropy and death.
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Fischer has been publishing in Buddhist magazines for many years, and is on the advisory board of BuddhaDharma magazine. His essays have been anthologized in many Buddhist and other spiritual books and have been included in every annual edition of the Best Buddhist Writing (Shambhala). He has written two books, Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms (Putnam, 2002) and Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up (HarperSF, 2003). A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, he has been associated with the lively San Francisco Bay Area literary scene since the 1970s. Fischer has published a dozen collections of poetry; the most recent are Slowly But Dearly (Chax Press, 2003) and I Was Blown Back (Singing Horse Press, 2005).
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Colophon
- Also by Norman Fischer
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1 Setting Forth
- 1 The Sea of Stories
- 2 The Paradox of Return
- 3 Waiting
- 4 Speak Your Grief
- 5 False Stories
- 6 Leaving Home
- 7 A Mentor's Path to Enlightenment
- 8 Practice with the Body
- Part 2 Disaster
- 9 Working with Disaster, Pleasure, and Time
- 10 The Lotus Eaters: Remembering to Practice
- 11 Being Nobody
- 12 Fatigue
- 13 Circe, or Desire
- 14 The Land of the Dead
- 15 The Siren Call
- 16 Impossible Choices: Scylla and Charybdis
- Part 3 Return
- 17 Sleep
- 18 Reveal Yourself!
- 19 Love's Risk
- 20 On the Threshold
- 21 Laertes, or Forgiveness
- 22 Peace
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Permissions
- About the Author
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