Issue 107 | The Sun Magazine

October 1984

Readers Write

Telling The Truth

An unannounced visit, a four-year-old makeup artist, a dead parrot

By Our Readers
Quotations

Sunbeams

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

William B1ake

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Where Is The Enemy?

Thich Nhat Hanh On Nonviolence

In order to rally people behind them, the governments need an enemy and are very ready to approve that. They want us to be afraid in order for us to rally behind them. They want us to hate in order for us to rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they would invent one in order to mobilize us.

By Thich Nhat Hanh
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Sacred Path Of The Warrior

Warriorship here does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Here the word “warrior” is taken from the Tibetan pawo, which literally means “one who is brave.” Warriorship in this context is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.

By Chögyam Trungpa
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

More Words . . .

Meditation is the root, the plant, the flower and the fruit. It is words that divide the fruit, the flower, the plant, and the root. In this separation action does not bring about goodness: virtue is the total perception.

Compiled By Matt Lippa
Fiction

The Tall One

He rolls the flower cart down the sidewalk, and I watch him through the window. Six days a week he goes by with his cart of flowers. He comes by just before visiting hours and stays until all the visitors have gone into the hospital.

By Jon Remmerde
Fiction

Stories

The interpretation of the holy teachings has long been the sole activity of the monks of the Gaesheen Valley. They read ceaselessly the sacred scrolls and ponder to themselves the precise meanings to be gained from them.

By Thomas Wiloch
Poetry

Ca Dao Vietnam

Vietnamese Folk Poetry | Story Poem

By Alan Brilliant