Water
(Volume 34, Number 2)
ARTICLES
MERGING INTO IMMENSITY Ng Kum-Hoon
A fresh presentation of the classic prose-poem "Rhapsody of the Sea"
A SENSE OF WONDER Bishop Kallistos Ware
The inner meaning of the Blessing of the Great Waters
THE RUSALKI Jane L. Mickelson
Beautiful, mysterious, deadly: female water-beings of Russian folklore
SKY WATER Henry David Thoreau
Lessons from nature
INUNDATIONS OF INSPIRATION Phillip A. Bernhardt-House
Fascinating flood myths of medieval Ireland
WORDS ABOUT WATER Enes Karic
Muslim wisdom about God's gift to humanity
BECOMING THE RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS John Daido Loori
An esteemed Zen master on water and the way to realty
THE DARK ILLUMINATIONS OF SAT HON
A Taoist master talks about transcending life and death
THE MIRROR OF HEAVEN Geoffrey W. Dennis
The many meanings of water in Judaism
BATHROOM RITUAL Thomas Moore
Turning the bathroom into a temple to Aphrodite
THERE IS A RIVER BENEATH THE SKIN C. Scott Ryan
Ayurvedic insights into water
OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT Richard Smoley
On the miracle of baptism
TANGENTS
KYOTO JOURNAL David Rothenberg
A celebration of a celebration of tea
THE HU-MANATEE OF ANNE WALDMAN Robert Doto
The legendary poet speaks
ROWING DOWN A RIVER OF WORDS Andrea Pflaumer
Of children and water
ARCS
LIMITLESS AND IMMORTAL
EPICYCLES
THE BOX OF WATER Anonymous | Tlingit
Retold by John E. Smelcer
PAPA GOD AND GENERAL DEATH Anonymous | Haitian
Retold by Antoine Exavier
THE DESCENT OF THE RIVER GANGES Anonymous | Hindu
Retold by D.K.M. Kartha
THE SWIMMER Chuang Tzu | Taoist
Retold by Yitzhak Buxbaum
THE RAIN BULL Anonymous | /Xam San
Retold by Therese Folkes Plair
BOOK REVIEWS
MINIATURES OF A ZEN MASTER
Robert Aitken | reviewed by Alexandra Yurkovsky
UNBOUNDED WHOLENESS
Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche | reviewed by J.M. White
WILD BIRDS OF THE AMERICAN WETLANDS
Rosalie Winard | reviewed by Laura Simms
ENDPOINT
