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A Flock of Fools

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802199275
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book A Flock of Fools written by and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These teachings from the heart of Buddhism ring true . . . a sumptuous meal of wild and comic dharma. Enjoy!” (Enkyō O’Hara, Soto priest and teacher). One hundred illuminating tales of the foibles and follies of everyday fools, this elegant, humorous, and masterful little book of wisdom is a welcome addition to the Buddhist canon. “The One Hundred Parable Sutra” is known as the most humorous sutra in all of Buddhist literature. Here, Kazuaki Tanahashi, the celebrated translator, calligrapher, and Dōgen scholar, and Peter Levitt, an award-winning poet, storyteller, and Zen practitioner, have translated and retold these jewel-like parables with storytelling panache for students, teachers, and seekers everywhere. With appropriate commentary, each tale becomes a simple lesson for everyday living. From the potter who seeks fame to the woman who possesses great lust, these tales are told with a gentle clarity that magnifies our appetites and delusions. In doing so, they become an accurate mirror of the human condition. Illustrated with seventeen original brushwork drawings by Tanahashi, A Flock of Fools is a perfect little book of wisdom, laughter, and compassion. “Translator Kaz Tanahashi and storyteller Peter Levitt have given these stories a subtle American-Zen flavor, and although this collection has a 1500-year pedigree . . . its messages ring clear and true today.” —Shambala Sun “Funny, strange, wise, informing, this marvelous book celebrates the wild heart of Buddhism.” —Roshi Joan Halifax, Zen Buddhist teacher “Nothing breaks apart dualism and sanctimoniousness like a good laugh! . . . lively reminders of the power of humor to enrich our understanding, and to help us let go of our attachments.” — Enkyō O’Hara, Soto priest and teacher

A Flock of Fools

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802199275
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book A Flock of Fools written by and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These teachings from the heart of Buddhism ring true . . . a sumptuous meal of wild and comic dharma. Enjoy!” (Enkyō O’Hara, Soto priest and teacher). One hundred illuminating tales of the foibles and follies of everyday fools, this elegant, humorous, and masterful little book of wisdom is a welcome addition to the Buddhist canon. “The One Hundred Parable Sutra” is known as the most humorous sutra in all of Buddhist literature. Here, Kazuaki Tanahashi, the celebrated translator, calligrapher, and Dōgen scholar, and Peter Levitt, an award-winning poet, storyteller, and Zen practitioner, have translated and retold these jewel-like parables with storytelling panache for students, teachers, and seekers everywhere. With appropriate commentary, each tale becomes a simple lesson for everyday living. From the potter who seeks fame to the woman who possesses great lust, these tales are told with a gentle clarity that magnifies our appetites and delusions. In doing so, they become an accurate mirror of the human condition. Illustrated with seventeen original brushwork drawings by Tanahashi, A Flock of Fools is a perfect little book of wisdom, laughter, and compassion. “Translator Kaz Tanahashi and storyteller Peter Levitt have given these stories a subtle American-Zen flavor, and although this collection has a 1500-year pedigree . . . its messages ring clear and true today.” —Shambala Sun “Funny, strange, wise, informing, this marvelous book celebrates the wild heart of Buddhism.” —Roshi Joan Halifax, Zen Buddhist teacher “Nothing breaks apart dualism and sanctimoniousness like a good laugh! . . . lively reminders of the power of humor to enrich our understanding, and to help us let go of our attachments.” — Enkyō O’Hara, Soto priest and teacher

Fools

Author : Joan Silber
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781838956615
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Fools written by Joan Silber and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Extravagant Fool

Author : Kevin Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780310337966
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book The Extravagant Fool written by Kevin Adams and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful businessman who lost his business and home in the financial crisis of 2008 describes how he found peace and a simpler way of life by discovering a personal relationship with God and placing his trust in God's goodness.

A Fool's Paradise

Author : Anita Konkka
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564784223
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book A Fool's Paradise written by Anita Konkka and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overeducated, unemployed, recently dumped, and depressed, the 38-year-old nameless narrator is a familiar American character, except she's Finnish. It is the 1980s, her married Russian lover has recently left her, and the narrator compulsively writes in her journal as she tries to put her life back together. Obsessed with omens, astrology, dreams, fortune-tellers, and other objects of the paranormal, the narrator is both funny and morose.

Outwitting the Devil

Author : Napoleon Hill
Publisher : Sharon Lechter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outwitting the Devil written by Napoleon Hill and published by Sharon Lechter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.

Great Fool

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824862708
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Great Fool written by and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taigu Ryokan (1759-1831) remains one of the most popular figures in Japanese Buddhist history. Despite his religious and artistic sophistication, Ryokan referred to himself as "Great Fool" and refused to place himself within the cultural elite of his age. In contrast to the typical Zen master of his time, who presided over a large monastery, trained students, and produced recondite religious treatises, Ryokan followed a life of mendicancy in the countryside. Instead of delivering sermons, he expressed himself through kanshi (poems composed in classical Chinese) and waka and could typically be found playing with the village children in the course of his daily rounds of begging. Great Fool is the first study in a Western language to offer a comprehensive picture of the legendary poet-monk and his oeuvre. It includes not only an extensive collection of the master's kanshi, topically arranged to facilitate an appreciation of Ryokan's colorful world, but selections of his waka, essays, and letters. The volume also presents for the first time in English the Ryokan zenji kiwa (Curious Accounts of the Zen Master Ryokan), a firsthand source composed by a former student less than sixteen years after Ryokan's death. Although it lacks chronological order, the Curious Account is invaluable for showing how Ryokan was understood and remembered by his contemporaries. It consists of colorful anecdotes and episodes, sketches from Ryokan's everyday life. To further assist the reader, three introductory essays approach Ryokan from the diverse perspectives of his personal history and literary work.

The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Fool's Errand, by One of the Fools

Author : Albion Winegar Tourgée
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Fool's Errand, by One of the Fools written by Albion Winegar Tourgée and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ore from the Puritans' Mine

Author : Dale Smith
Publisher : Reformation Heritage Books
ISBN 13 : 1601787766
Total Pages : 1073 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Ore from the Puritans' Mine written by Dale Smith and published by Reformation Heritage Books. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ore from the Puritans’ Mine is the go-to collection of quotes from the English Puritans.

Fool

Author : Peter K. Andersson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691250162
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Fool written by Peter K. Andersson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another, striking figure—a gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head and, in one case, a monkey on his shoulder. This is William or "Will" Somer, the king’s fool, a celebrated wit who reportedly could raise Henry’s spirits and spent many hours with him, often alone. Was Somer an “artificial fool,” a cunning comic who could speak freely in front of the king, or a “natural fool,” someone with intellectual disabilities, like many other members of the profession? And what role did he play in the tumultuous and violent Tudor era? Fool is the first biography of Somer—and perhaps the first of a Renaissance fool. After his death, Somer disappeared behind his legend, and historians struggled to separate myth from reality. Unearthing as many facts as possible, Peter K. Andersson pieces together the fullest picture yet of an enigmatic and unusual man with a very strange job. Somer’s story provides new insights into how fools lived and what exactly they did for a living, how monarchs and courtiers related to commoners and people with disabilities, and whether aspects of the Renaissance fool live on in the modern comedian. But most of all, we learn how a commoner without property or education managed to become the court’s chief mascot and a continuous presence at the center of Tudor power from the 1530s to the reign of Elizabeth I. Looking beyond stereotypes of the man in motley, Fool reveals a little-known world, surprising and disturbing, when comedy was something crueler and more unpleasant than we like to think.

A Brief Concordance, Or Table to the Bible of the Last Translation ... Carefully Perused and Inlarged by Mr. John Downame, Etc

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Between a Flock and a Hard Place

Author : Donna Andrews
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250894093
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Between a Flock and a Hard Place written by Donna Andrews and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series. Meg's neighbors, the Smetkamps', have won a makeover for their old home from Marvelous Mansions, a flashy, yet dubious company, focused on making historic homes more "modern." The company already several days into its makeover of the Smetkamps' house, and tensions are running high--not only between the officious, demanding Mrs. Smetkamp and her neighbors, but also between her and the renovation crew. Meg, who is trying to keep the peace and prevent the makeover crew from trampling on every clause of the county's building code, arrives at the Smetkamps to find that Caerphilly's resident flock of feral turkeys has moved into their yard--or been relocated there by someone who wanted to cause them trouble. The turkeys are huge, territorial, cranky and aggressive - and impossible to move! Meg does what she can to calm down the irate neighbors and help the makeover crew make progress in spite of the turkeys. She comes up with a plan to gather a group of turkey wranglers to snatch them early in the morning. But when they arrive, they find the body of Mrs. Smetkamp in her backyard. Someone stabbed her, and then tried to make it look as if she was attacked by one of the turkeys, but Meg, the Chief, and the Sheriff are not fooled. Together, they must figure out what really happened to Mrs. Smetkamp...and what to do with all these turkeys!

A Fool's Paradise

Author : William H. Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fool's Paradise written by William H. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gift of Light

Author : Anita Brockway Ferris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Light written by Anita Brockway Ferris and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Crown&Glory of Christianity: Or Holiness, the Only Way to Happiness, Etc

Author : Thomas Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Crown&Glory of Christianity: Or Holiness, the Only Way to Happiness, Etc written by Thomas Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: