Wild Wisdom by Douglas-Klotz, Neil -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright CONTENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION 1: Into the Wild Wood

I Went to the Woods A Tree of No Use The Preaching of Trees My Branches Weigh Me Down Discarding Old Leaves The Freest Tree The Tree of Our Original Nature Song of the Traveling Trees Mulberry and Bamboo Groves Neglected Swamp Thoughts Long Barefoot Walks The Grass Does Not Refuse The Job Description of Grass Songs of the Plants Sunflower Life Is in the Forests

2: Taking a Mountain View

You Ask Me Why Mind Stretching Mountains and Seas Becoming an Alp Sleeping with the Mountain Offspring of Mountains Climbing to the Top Like the White Lion A Timeless Hollow Spirit of the Valley The Valley of Knowing and Not-Knowing Those Who Sit on the Mountain The Zen of Mountains Using a Telescope Walk Away Quietly Madly Singing in the Mountains

3: Desert Sole

To Wake in the Desert Awake in the Desert Night The Creed of the Desert Desert Love: No Compromise Ruined House Rising and Falling Death before My Eyes Visiting the Graveyard You Were Iron Starting a Quarrel in the Desert Driving in the Gobi Desert How to Lose the Way Falling Asleep Food in the Desert Learning a New Alphabet Desert . . . Really? The Crazed Communism of the Desert Prayers of Rabia

4: The Magic of Water

One Undivided Flow Sometimes Boats Sink Too Smooth, Too Blue This Life Is a Lake So Small The Foam and the Sea A Long Soaking Rain How Much It Washes Away Inland Goodness Like the Water The Teaching of the Running River Water in the Basin Stained Water Still Water The Book of the River Sliding Like a Shadow The White River at Nan-yang

5: Wild Companions

Fish Running in Our Veins The Joy of Fish The Philosophy of a Flea The Fun of Other Creatures A Cat Does Not Use Chopsticks Worm Democracy The Bee of the Soul The Bees of the Invisible The Heaven of the Crickets The Sensitive Horse The Price of Tears Earth-Born Companions Wild Swans The Voice of the Wood Thrush Dances with Swifts The Dragon of the Black Pool

6: Speaking Wildly in Society

Roots and Needs Sliding Off the Earth's Shoulders Loafing Straight Hook Greeting a Governor The Purpose of a Shepherd The Victim Ox The Proper Influence From Dervish to King (and Back Again) The Problem with Responsibility Common Everyday Beauty Writing from the Earth Returning Home Living in the Mountains with Crowds The Flower Market The Real World

7: Reading the Book of Nature

Nature's First Book Nature Is What We See . . . Falling Like Fragrant Dew You Cause Our Rivers to Flow A Storm of Beauty The World Stands Out Talk of Mysteries Free of Excess Accepting Original Purity The Next Heap of Grass Everybody Does Not See Alike Like the Homesick Going Home Returning to the Fields after Government Service Returning to Nature from Jail The Word Wilderness Should Not Lose Its Meaning The Real Words The Breath of the Reed A Rock by the Pondside

8: Wild to the End

Snow Falling in a River Death and Life and Beauty The Shadow of the Bamboo in the Moonlight Beyond? An Old Age Dream of Climbing Mountains Wind in the Woods Substance, Shadow, Spirit Being Worked Journey into Being The Flight of the Monarchs

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Appendix: VOICES OF THE WILD BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RECOMMENDED READING ABOUT THE EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR