{"product_id":"return-to-the-mother-red-hawk-9781942493303","title":"Return to the Mother: A Lover's Handbook: Poems of Self Remembering and Self Observation Inspired by Lao Tsu's Tao Te Ching","description":"For centuries the Tao Te Ching, the book of ancient wisdom by Lao Tsu, has offered insight, inspiration and consolation to millions of readers. Although numberless translations and commentaries exist around the world, Return to the Mother, A Lover's Handbook, is a groundbreaking effort and a unique contribution to the canon of American poetry. In this volume, internationally known poet Red Hawk offers what no other poet has yet undertakeneZ that is, to write poetic reflections on these much-loved ancient sutras. This collection of 94 contemporary poem (each 16-lines), brings this perennial wisdom into the twenty-first century-and adds the flavor and fragrance of Zen and Gurdjieff's dharma teachings in a spare poetic marriage with Lao Tsu. \u003cbr\u003eFurther, each poem invites the reader into the application of this wisdom to his or her daily practice of self observation and self remembering. The poet begs for a return to the true self, which he symbolizes as the place of the Mother within. No lengthy discursive explanations are offered, however, only exquisite lines that pierce to the heart of human longing for truth. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur Mother has no words, She is \u003cbr\u003eSilence, She is the present, here- \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003enow. To be here-now, in this body, \u003cbr\u003eis to return to Our Mother, \u003cbr\u003erelaxed, soft, open, receptive: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ekind. \u003cbr\u003eKindness is the nature of Our Mother, \u003cbr\u003eNon-Judgmental Love is Her Being, and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewe are Her children, made in Her image. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is a companion and completion to the author's two previous volumes Self Observation: The Awakening of Conscience. An Owner's Manual; and Self Remembering: The Path to Non-Judgmental Love. A Practitioner's Manual. Taken together, these three volumes form a trilogy, which examines the spiritual practice of self remembering\/self observation. \u003cbr\u003eThe author writes from long personal study and experience. His years of discipleship within religious schools of esoteric knowledge, allows him to share what has been gained and lost from following a Path. The inner struggles of this type of work on self are rendered with raw precision, while being beautifully delineated in these poems. Any reader will benefit from the fruits of understanding the poet has gained from these struggles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Red Hawk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1942493304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942493303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hohm Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.50d","brand":"Red Hawk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44616721498367,"sku":"9781942493303","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f76eb52d-fe28-4920-8494-92f40ebf9039.jpg?v=1703021934","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/return-to-the-mother-red-hawk-9781942493303","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}