Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/enlightenedheartOOstep THE ENLIGHTENED HEART ByStephenMitchell POETRY ParablesandPortraits PROSE TheGospelAccordingtoJesus TRANSLATIONSANDADAPTATIONS ABookofPsalms VariableDirections:TheSelectedPoetryofDanPagis TaoTeChing TheBookofJob TheSelectedPoetryofYehudaAmichai(withChanaBloch) TheSonnetstoOrpheus TheLayoftheLoveandDeathofCornetChristophRilke LetterstoaYoungPoet TheNotebooksofMakeLauridsBrigge TheSelectedPoetryofRatnerMariaRilke EDITED BYSTEPHENMITCHELL IntotheGarden:AWeddingAnthology(withRobertHass) TheEnlightenedMind:AnAnthologyofSacredProse TheEnlightenedHeart:AnAnthologyofSacredPoetry DroppingAshesontheBuddha: TheTeachingofZenMasterSeungSahn FOR CHILDREN TheCreation(withpaintingsbyOriSherman) BOOKS ONTAPE TheGospelAccordingtoJesus TheEnlightenedMind TheEnlightenedHeart LetterstoaYoungPoet ParablesandPortraits TaoTeChing TheBookofJob TheSelectedPoetryofRainerMariaRilke ^^ THE ENLIGHTENED HEART An Anthology ofSacred Poetry Edited by Stephen Mitchell HarperPerennial ADivisionofHarperCoWmsPublishers "The SecretSits": Copyright© 1942 byRobertFrost andrenewed1970byLesleyFrostBallantine. Reprinted from ThePoetry ofRobertFrost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem, bypermissionofHenry Holt and Company, Inc., Jonathan Cape Ltd., the Estate of RobertFrost,andEdwardConneryLathem. "Thetao thatcanbetold," "Everybeingin (Continuedonpage 172,whichconstitutesanextensionofcopyrightpage.) Ahardcovereditionofthisbookwaspublishedin1989 byHarperandRow,Publishers. THE ENLIGHTENED heart. Copyright © 1989 by StephenMitchell. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States ofAmerica. Nopartofthis bookmay be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever withoutwrittenpermissionexceptinthecaseofbrief quotations embodied incritical articles and reviews. Forinformation address HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 10East53rdStreet,NewYork,NY10022. HarperCollinsbooksmaybepurchasedforeducational, business, or sales promotional use. For information pleasewrite:SpecialMarketsDepartment,HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rdStreet, NewYork,NY 10022. FirstHarperPerennialeditionpublished 1993. DesignedbyDavidBullen LIBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGCARDNUMBER 89-45320 ISBN0-06-092053-X 93 94 95 96 97 WT/CW 10 9876543 21 To Zen MasterSeungSahn, who taughtme everythingIdont know