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Notice how J.D. Salinger capitalized upon various "eastern" notions such as "reincarnation" and "prayer of the heart" (from the Philokalia), in the short story Teddy about the prodigy child who was a wise man, reincarnated, and in Franny and Zooey where Zooey is so beguiled by the Russian Way of...

"Nighthawks" - a painting by Edward Hopper Your screen name reminded me just now of this wonderful painting by Edward Hopper http://www.masterpiece-paintings-gallery.com/about-nighthawks.htm and the play, by Evan J. Blake, based on Hopper's painting...

The Master of Silence I am going to recount here, and ancient Zen story which is related in The World of Zen - an East/West Anthology, edited by Nancy Wilson Ross. My reason for bringing this story up in detail is that, for me, it illustrates in a wonderful fashion, how the reader may find a...