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VOL. 05:3
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Parabola's Fall 1980 issue: Obstacles Obstacles. We spend our lives fighting them, overcoming them, getting around them, or making excuses for being stopped by them. How much of all this energy is spent tilting at windmills? Something, certainly, stops us from attaining what we wish and being what we could be; but is it what--or where--we think it is? Opposition and challenge from the outside evidently stimulate us to do battle, exercise and train us, develop our muscles and our patience. They play Marpa to our Milarepa, if there is any Milarepa in us at all. They help rather than hinder. But there is something inside everyone that resists help--a coward shadow that dogs the heels of our potential hero. This is the real obstacle, and it is very close to home; we have met the enemy, as Pogo says, and he is us. --from the editorial Focus Cover: Moencopi Strata, Capitol Reef, Utah, 1962 Photograph by Minor White Courtesy the Minor White Archive, Princeton University Copyright Trustees of Princeton University In this issue:
"Miz Chapman Tells Us the Score: A Memoir, 1947" by Al Young
- Starting out black in America
"The Garden" by David Malouf
- A poem
"Blindness, A New Seeing of the World" by Jacques Lusseyran
- Perception without eyes
"Inner Grace" by Abraham Menashe
- A photographic essay
"Paths of Obedience: Fairy Tales and the Monk's Way" by Brother David Steindl-Rast
- The Anima in Snow White, Psyche, and the novice
"The Great Transition" by Jonathan Omer-Man
- A contemporary Jew seeks his faith
"An Earthquake Coming: Interview at Akwesasne"
- Mohawk Longhouse chiefs show us the facts
Arcs: "With Crooked Glances You Teach Me"
"Salvaging the Mystery" by Italo Calvino
- The unsuspected wonder and reality of Italian folktales
"Changing the Impossible" by H.H. the Dalai Lama
- On the use of difficulty
Tangents - Reviews
"Physical Pariahs" by Rob Baker
- "Disability" on Broadway
"Playing with One Foot in Each Camp" by Rob Baker
- Peter Brook's theater of obstacles
"Footnote to the Gurdjieff Literature" by M. de Salzmann
- A leader of the Gurdjieff work sifts the wheat from the chaff
"Something Reliable" by Roger Lipsey
- The Picasso Retrospective
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
"A Lesson in Swordsmanship" / Zen Buddhist
"Broken Strings" / Buddhist retold by Laura Simms
"The Raven" / European retold by D. M. Dooling
"Milarepa and the Trial of the Towers" / Tibetan retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
