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VOL. 05:1
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Parabola's Spring 1980 issue: The Old Ones Nanpo said to Lady Yu: "You are old and yet you have the complexion of a child. How is this?" "I have abolished past and present. For me, death does not take away life, nor does giving birth add to it; I accept all and welcome all; I see everything in the process of completion and everything being destroyed. This is to be secure amid insecurity. This is Tao." "From where did you learn Tao?" asked Nanpo. "I learned it from the Son of Ink, and the Son of Ink learned it from the Grandson of Learning, the Grandson of Learning from Understanding, and Understanding from Insight; Insight learned it from Practice, Practice from Folk Song and Folk Song from Silence and Silence from the Void." "And from where did the Void learn it?" Nanpo asked. "Ah!" said Lady Yu. --"Ah!", retold by P. L. Travers Cover: The hands of Georgia O'Keeffe Photograph copyright Victor Lobl, from his exhibit "Nine by One" at the Good Company Gallery, New York City In this issue:
"Time Stands Still" by Keith Critchlow
- New visions of ancient places
"Coming Back Slow" by Agnes Vanderburg
- A Flathead American Indian teaches the old ways
"Living Ancestors" by Frederick Franck
- Japan's aged artists are its national treasures
"Cycles of Time" by J. Stephen Lansing
- Being "old" in Bali
"The Object, the Ritual" by Joy Elvey Bannerman
- A poem
"The Old People Give You Life" by Megan Biesele
- A day and days in the life of the Kung Bushmen
Arcs: "Legacy"
- The wisdom of our Native American grandfathers
"The Transmission of Blessings: An interview with Deshung Rinpoche"
- A Tibetan tulku discusses the philosophy of transmission revealed in Buddhist methods of teaching
"Gatherer of Glorious Virtues" by Lobsang Lhalungpa
- A portrait of Tibet's great woman saint
"Elders and Guides: A conversation with Joseph Campbell"
- Remembering Heinrich Zimmer
"Old Oaks and Ancient Sages" by Jonathan Chaves
- Poetry and paintings from the Ming dynasty
"Re-membered Lives" by Barbara G. Myerhoff
- Memory and survival: the importance of our own life stories
"Four Poems" by Robert Bly and Rolf Jacobsen
"Where We Are" by Gary Snyder
- How knowledge of place helps us to know ourselves
Tangents - Reviews
"Tom Brown's School Days" by Paul Jordan-Smith
- Thoughts on America Revised and The Tracker lead to new definitions of teaching
"Ancestors" by Winifred Lambrecht
- An exhibition of Native American arts raises questions
"Kirittik's Circle" by Roger Lipsey
- A first translation of a work by René Daumal
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
"Tokahe" / Lakota (Native American) retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
"Ah!" / Chinese retold by P. L. Travers
"Pilgrimage" / Persian retold by P. L. Travers
"The Old Man of the Sea" / Greek retold by D. M. Dooling
