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Chop Wood, Carry Water by Rick Fields

Chop Wood, Carry Water

A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life

By Rick Fields

By Rick Fields

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Category: Religion | Philosophy

Paperback $18.95

Dec 01, 1984 | ISBN 9780874772098

Chop Wood, Carry Water by Rick Fields
Paperback $18.95
Dec 01, 1984 | ISBN 9780874772098

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About Chop Wood, Carry Water

More than a thousand years ago a Chinese Zen Master wrote:

Magical Power, Marvelous Action!

Chopping Wood, Carrying Water…

The message is as true today as it was then: the greatest lessons and the profoundest heights of the spiritual path can be found in our everyday life. It is the greatest challenge for people living in contemporary society to find the spiritual aspects of working in an office, store, or factory; balancing a checkbook; raising a family; or making a relationship work. How can we make all these daily activities a part of the path? How can we apply the insights of great spiritual traditions, and our own experience, to the way we live and develop?

This book is a guide – a handbook filled with information, advice, hints, stories, inspiration, encouragement, connections, warning, and cautions, for the inner journey as we live throughout our lives.

Chop Wood, Carry Water contains much ancient wisdom, but the emphasis is on contemporary perceptions. Many of our guides have been known to humanity for millennia: they are the world’s great spiritual teachers- Christ, the Buddha, Loa Tse, Confucius. Others are contemporary teacher and healers, widely recognized and respected. All offer ways to integrate the events, our focus on relationships and family, our struggle with technology, money, politics and more- into the quest for spiritual fulfillment.

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About Rick Fields

Rick Fields was editor in chief of Yoga Journal, author of The Code of the Warrior and How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, and coauthor of Chop Wood, Carry Water, and The Turquoise Bee.

Product Details

Category: Religion | Philosophy

Paperback | $18.95
Published by TarcherPerigee
Dec 01, 1984 | 304 Pages | 7-3/8 x 9 | ISBN 9780874772098

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Table Of Contents

Chop Wood Carry Water Introduction
1. Beginnings
2. Learning
3. Intimate Relationships
4. Sex
5. Family
6. Work
7. Money
8. Play
9. Tuning the Body
10. Healing
11. Technology
12. The Earth
13. Social Action
14. Inner Guidance
15. Perils of the Path
Afterword

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