- 128 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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The World Is Made of Stories
About this book
In this dynamic and utterly novel presentation, David Loy explores the fascinating proposition that the stories we tell--about what is and is not possible, about ourselves, about right and wrong, life and death, about the world and everything in it--become the very building blocks of our experience and of reality itself. Loy uses an intriguing mixture of quotations from familiar and less-familiar sources and brief stand-alone micro-essays, engaging the reader in challenging and illuminating dialogue. As we come to see that the world is made--in a word--of stories, we come to a richer understanding of that most elusive of Buddhist ideas: shunyata, the "generative emptiness" that is the all-pervading quality inherent to all mental and physical forms in our ever-changing world. Reminiscent of Zen koans and works of sophisticated poetry, this book will reward both a casual read and deep reflection.
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Index
A
Achebe, Chinua, 36
Acton, Lord, 57, 69
Advaita Vedanta, 43
Andreas, Brian, 16
Angyal, Andras, 37
‘Arabi, Ibn, 95
Arendt, Hannah, 12
Augustine, 73, 96
Aung San Suu Kyi, 72
B
Bankei, 49
Beaverbrook, Lord, 68
Becker, Ernest, 5, 17, 85
Bellah, Robert, 7
Berry, Thomas, 19, 71, 97
Blake, William, 99, 100
Blum, William, 62
Bodhidharma, 92
Boehme, Jakob, 93
Borges, Jorge Luis, 13, 17, 34, 67, 99
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 43
C
Carey, Alex, 61
Carse, James, 60
Cavarero, Adriana, 27
Claxton, Guy, 31
Clements, Alan, 44
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 93
Connolly, Joy, 54
Corbin, Henri, 15
Cry for Myth, The (Rollo May), 12
D
DeLillo, Don, 65
Descartes, Rene, 37
Diamond Sutra, 32, 33, 35, 90
Dick, Philip K., 6
Dinesen, Isak, 27
Dogen, 47, 75
Donald, Merlin, 5
E
Eckhart, Meister, 95
Einstein, Albert, 67, 100
Ende, Michael
Neverending Story, The 101
Epicurus, 46
Escher, M. C., 98
F
Ferm, Ransom K., 56
Feuerbach, Ludwig, 85
Fingarette, Herbert, 25
Foltz, Richard C., 84
Foster, R. F., 9
Frye, Northrop, 29, 59, 86, 94, 100
G
Gabler, Neal, 30
Gamgee, Sam, 100
Garner, Alan, 12
Gellner, Ernest, 58
Genesis, 13, 92
Genet, Jean, 23
Gergen, Kenneth, 30
Gilga...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Preface
- In the Beginning Was the Story
- A Storied Life
- The Power of Story, the Story of Power
- The Big Stories
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- About Wisdom Publications
- Index
- Copyright