Sailing Home: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls

Fischer, Norman

ISBN 10: 1416560211 / ISBN 13: 9781416560210

Editore: Atria Books, 2008

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• Titolo: Sailing Home: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls
• Editore: Atria Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1416560211
• ISBN 13: 9781416560210
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: New

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Riassunto

Reveals the universal lessons that can be found in Homer's Greek epic, explaining how Odysseus's human struggles with divine and earthly obstacles can teach readers about living a life of purpose, managing dynamic relationships, and distinguishing between truth and deception. 40,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull?autore

Norman Fischer is one of the best-known Zen teachers in the country, both through his extensive teaching and traveling, and through his writing.  In addition to his own retreats and events, Fischer participates frequently at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, the largest of all Western Buddhist establishments, where he gives frequent talks and leads retreats on creativity and interfaith issues, as well as on mediation and conflict resolution. 

                    Fischer has been publishing in Buddhist magazines for many years, and is on the advisory board of BuddhaDharma magazine. His essays have been anthologized in many Buddhist and other spiritual books and have been included in every annual edition of the Best Buddhist Writing (Shambhala).  He has written two books, Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms (Putnam, 2002) and Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up (HarperSF, 2003). A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, he has been associated with the lively San Francisco Bay Area literary scene since the 1970s. Fischer has published a dozen collections of poetry; the most recent are Slowly But Dearly (Chax Press, 2003) and I Was Blown Back (Singing Horse Press, 2005).