The Enlightened Mind

This collection of sacred prose is the perfect companion to The Enlightened Heart, Stephen Mitchell's anthology of sacred poetry, as well as his bestselling translation of the Tao Te Ching. The Enlightened Mind contains discourses, essays, sermons, and aphorisms from the world's great religious traditions, many of them in new translations by the editor.

The Enlightened Mind features texts from the Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, and Confucian scriptures
Heraclitus and Plato
Muhammed, Chuang-tzu and Jesus
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
the Chinese Zen Masters
the Sufi masters
Meister Eckhart, Dame Julian of Norwich and other Christian teachers
Montaigne and Spinoza
the Hasidic Masters
Native American orators
and modern writers like Blake, Emerson, Rilke, Einstein, Kafka, and Simone Weil.

Stephen Mitchell was born in Brooklyn in 1943, educated at Amherst, the Sorbonne, and Yale, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice. His many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and The Second Book of the Tao, as well as The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, and Meetings with the Archangel.