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Water

(Volume 34, Number 2)

ARTICLES

MERGING INTO IMMENSITY Ng Kum-Hoon
A fresh presentation of the classic prose-poem "Rhapsody of the Sea"

A SENSE OF WONDER Bishop Kallistos Ware
The inner meaning of the Blessing of the Great Waters

THE RUSALKI Jane L. Mickelson
Beautiful, mysterious, deadly: female water-beings of Russian folklore

SKY WATER Henry David Thoreau
Lessons from nature

INUNDATIONS OF INSPIRATION Phillip A. Bernhardt-House
Fascinating flood myths of medieval Ireland

WORDS ABOUT WATER Enes Karic   
Muslim wisdom about God's gift to humanity

BECOMING THE RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS John Daido Loori
An esteemed Zen master on water and the way to realty

THE DARK ILLUMINATIONS OF SAT HON
A Taoist master talks about transcending life and death

THE MIRROR OF HEAVEN Geoffrey W. Dennis
The many meanings of water in Judaism

BATHROOM RITUAL Thomas Moore
Turning the bathroom into a temple to Aphrodite

THERE IS A RIVER BENEATH THE SKIN C. Scott Ryan
Ayurvedic insights into water

OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT Richard Smoley
On the miracle of baptism

TANGENTS
KYOTO JOURNAL David Rothenberg
A celebration of a celebration of tea

THE HU-MANATEE OF ANNE WALDMAN Robert Doto
The legendary poet speaks

ROWING DOWN A RIVER OF WORDS Andrea Pflaumer
Of children and water

ARCS
LIMITLESS AND IMMORTAL

EPICYCLES
THE BOX OF WATER Anonymous | Tlingit
Retold by John E. Smelcer

PAPA GOD AND GENERAL DEATH Anonymous | Haitian
Retold by Antoine Exavier

THE DESCENT OF THE RIVER GANGES Anonymous | Hindu
Retold by D.K.M. Kartha

THE SWIMMER Chuang Tzu | Taoist
Retold by Yitzhak Buxbaum

THE RAIN BULL Anonymous | /Xam San
Retold by Therese Folkes Plair

BOOK REVIEWS
MINIATURES OF A ZEN MASTER
Robert Aitken | reviewed by Alexandra Yurkovsky

UNBOUNDED WHOLENESS
Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche | reviewed by J.M. White

WILD BIRDS OF THE AMERICAN WETLANDS
Rosalie Winard | reviewed by Laura Simms

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