Square Sun, Square Moon
A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays
Published on 7. February 2012
95 pages
978-1-4629-0461-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of Zen essays by the author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones offers an enlightening perspective on a variety of topics.
From the introduction:
Not all of us can be exuberant travelers though we all dream of faraway places. Not all of us can sec the subliminal with a penetrating eye, though many of us yearn to shake off the philistine shells that restrict our lives to the prosaic.
Here, then, is your chance! In the privacy of your den, on the commode, in the library wherever you find reading most pleasurable reps invites you t o share his experiences vicariously. Within these pages, if you synchronize properly, you may find yourself in Tahiti where you "breathe this flowered air, drink the cascading water, cat the fruits and just sleep" until "you too become sweet."
From the introduction:
Not all of us can be exuberant travelers though we all dream of faraway places. Not all of us can sec the subliminal with a penetrating eye, though many of us yearn to shake off the philistine shells that restrict our lives to the prosaic.
Here, then, is your chance! In the privacy of your den, on the commode, in the library wherever you find reading most pleasurable reps invites you t o share his experiences vicariously. Within these pages, if you synchronize properly, you may find yourself in Tahiti where you "breathe this flowered air, drink the cascading water, cat the fruits and just sleep" until "you too become sweet."
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Paul Reps
Square Sun, Square Moon
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12/1989
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Content
- Intro
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- THE PRICELESS TREASURE: perhaps a core of religions and philosophies
- ABOUT TAHITI: where primitiue and ciuilized pretend to meet
- PILLOW EDUCATION INRURAL JAPAN: children teaching parents
- WRITING WITH WATER: calligraphy as therapy
- SWEET SOUR SALIVA TOYOUNG: a Chinese method of tong life
- TWO EYES IN FIJI: health plus
- SWEET SAMOANS: how to be happy though grown up
- HOW TO SOLVE THEWORLD PROBLEM: unpossessed
- WANDERING JAPAN ALPS: COME AT ONCE: any Alps are in us
- THE PROPHET OF T ABUSE: shows a way to shake well
- TEA COMMUNION AND THE BEAT GENERATION: smooth move
- LISTENING TO GAGAKU WITH MY EYES: music to purify with
- EXERCISE YES, EXERCISE NO: animal knowledge
- GOING TO HELL WITH A BUDDHIST NUN: in the dark
- HOW TO SMOKE ROSES: yoga
- BLIND AMMA-SAN: accordingly
- LETTER FROM BUCKMINSTER FULLER: our foremost designer of futures
- NOH AS REVELATION: centering into glory
- NORWAY WEDDING: northernly
- SCHOOL FOR RECEIVING: a perfect position
- SCHOOL FOR LOVE: the sustaining consideration
- SCHOOL FOR SEE: a reason for images
- SCHOOL FOR SMELL: beneficial fragrance
- SCHOOL FOR TOUCH: adventuring
- SCHOOL FOR FEEL: and you are you
- HOW TO DIE: without troubling
- MY FOUR WIVES: from sun
