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    RETURN TO THE MOTHER ~ A Lover’s Handbook: Poems of Self Remembering and Self Observation Inspired by Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching
    RETURN TO THE MOTHER ~ A Lover’s Handbook: Poems of Self Remembering and Self Observation Inspired by Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching
    RETURN TO THE MOTHER ~ A Lover’s Handbook: Poems of Self Remembering and Self Observation Inspired by Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching
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    RETURN TO THE MOTHER ~ A Lover’s Handbook: Poems of Self Remembering and Self Observation Inspired by Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching

    By Red Hawk

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    For centuries the Tao Te Ching, the book of ancient wisdom by Lao Tsu, has offered insight, inspiration and consolation to millions of readers. Although numberless translations and commentaries exist around the world, Return to the Mother, A Lover’s Handbook, is a groundbreaking effort and a unique contribution to the canon of American poetry. In this volume, internationally known poet Red Hawk offers poetic reflections on these much-loved ancient sutras. This collection of 94 contemporary poems (each 16 lines), brings this perennial wisdom into the 21st century—and adds the flavor and fragrance of Zen and Gurdjieff’s dharma teachings in a spare poetic marriage with Lao Tsu. Each poem invites the reader to bring this wisdom to his or her daily practice of self observation and self remembering. The poet begs for a return to the true Self, which he symbolizes as the place of the Mother within. Our Mother has no words, She is Silence, She is the present, herenow. To be here-now, in this body, is to return to Our Mother . . . This volume is a companion and completion to the author’s two previous volumes Self Observation: The Awakening of Conscience. An Owner’s Manual; and Self Remembering: The Path to Non-Judgmental Love. A Practitioner’s Manual. RECOMMENDED FOR: READERS OF THE AUTHOR’S PREVIOUS BOOKS; STUDENTS OF ANY SPIRITUAL OR “WORK-ON-SELF” PRACTICE; SCHOLARS, POETS, UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND LOVERS OF POETRY.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHohm Press
    Release dateSep 7, 2017
    ISBN9781942493372
    RETURN TO THE MOTHER ~ A Lover’s Handbook: Poems of Self Remembering and Self Observation Inspired by Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching

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