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    Four Truths
    Four Truths
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    Four Truths

    By Steven Schroeder

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    Four Truths is not a traditional scholarly work. It consists of three short stories and a verse drama built around the four noble truths of Buddhism--each followed by a prose reflection in the form of a series of theses. The text is complemented by thirteen images from a series of ink brush paintings done by Macao artist Debby Sou Vai Keng in response to the book. It is an invitation to conversation rather than a systematic philosophical or theological argument--though it is an invitation in the scholastic tradition of academic theses that will appeal to students of comparative religion and philosophy and could serve as an entry point for discussion in ethics and moral philosophy as well as philosophy of religion.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWipf and Stock
    Release dateJun 15, 2011
    ISBN9781630879808
    Four Truths
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    Steven Schroeder

    Steven Schroeder is a poet and visual artist who teaches in Asian Classics and the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults at the University of Chicago. His most recent poetry collection is Turn (2012).

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      Four Truths

      Steven Schroeder

      Copyright © 2011 Steven Schroeder. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

      Interior and cover images © Debby Sou Vai Keng. Used with permission

      Wipf & Stock

      An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers

      199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3

      Eugene, OR 97401

      www.wipfandstock.com

      isbn 13: 978-1-61097-449-3

      eisbn 13: 978-1-63087-980-8

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      Acknowledgments

      Special thanks to Debby Sou Vai Keng for the beautiful paintings she did especially for this book. Readers interested in her work can find more at http://vacpoetry.org/debbysouvaikeng.

      Job’s Cat first appeared in Mother of Invention, 1999.

      An earlier version of Why Sarah Laughed first appeared in Rambunctious Review, Volume XI, 1994-1995.

      One

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      Job’s Cat

      The two were old friends.

      I noticed them one day on the road in front of J’s house and knew from the start that neither could be trusted.

      One was a vagabond who hadn’t bathed in weeks. His hair was matted. A moustache perched perilously on his upper lip like a twisted caterpillar in slow painful transit to his chin, leaving his mouth mostly hidden. His beard was a staging area for remnants of his last meal and an archaeological site in which others were preserved at varying depths. Bad grooming is one thing, but this character was jerky, bird-like, and that rubbed me the wrong way. His head bobbed. He had raptor eyes, like high flying birds that take in everything at once—impossibly intelligent and cold at the same time. He looked right through you but didn’t focus: now here, now there, first one thing, then another.

      The other was slick, fashionably dressed, not a thread or a hair out of place. I wondered how he could stand on that dusty road without showing a speck of dust. Maybe that’s why the two hung together: Bird was a magnet for dust who kept Slick spotless.

      What have you been up to now? Bird says.

      With you every separation is nothing but a breath in the middle of an endless conversation, says Slick.

      Well?

      It’s been years. You might begin with ‘Hello. It’s been a long time, and I missed you. How have you been?’

      Hello. What have you been up to now?

      Wandering here and there. Trying to keep things under control.

      Have you?

      More or less. At least I attend to one thing at a time.

      There’s your problem. You must have noticed J; isn’t he a trip? The man dreams up rituals that wouldn’t come to me in a thousand years—thinks they keep him prosperous and his children safe. Some are really entertaining. Have you seen him? He’s unshakable.

      Not unshakable, just unshaken.

      "Come

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