THE OLD ONES
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 1
Spring 1980
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
ARTICLES
TIME STANDS STILL Keith Critchlow
New visions of ancient places.
COMING BACK SLOW Agnes Vanderburg
A Flathead American Indian teaches the old ways.
LIVING ANCESTORS Frederick Franck
Japan's aged artists are its national treasures.
CYCLES OF TIME J. Stephen Lansing
Being "old" in Bali.
THE OBJECT, THE RITUAL Joy Elvey Bannerman
A poem.
THE OLD PEOPLE GIVE YOU LIFE 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 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 Jonathan Chaves
Poetry and paintings from the Ming dynasty.
RE-MEMBERED LIVES Barbara G. Myerhoff
Memory and survival: the importance of our own life stories.
FOUR POEMS Robert Bly and Rolf Jacobsen
WHERE WE ARE Gary Snyder
How knowledge of place helps us to know ourselves.
TANGENTS: Reviews
TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS Paul Jordan-Smith
Thoughts on America Revised
and The Tracker
lead to new definitions of teaching.ANCESTORS Winifred Lambrecht
An exhibition of Native American arts raises questions.
KIRITTIK'S CIRCLE Roger Lipsey
A first translation of a work by Renv© Daumal.
EPICYCLES: Traditional Stories from around the World
TOKAHE Lakota (Native American)
Retold by Paul Jordan-SmithAH! 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
