The Zen of Oz: Ten Spiritual Lessons from Over the Rainbow

ten spiritual lessons from over the rainbow

Renaissance Books (Oct 19, 1998)

9781580630207

| Hardcover

144 pages | 5 x 7.4 inch | English

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Dewey 813.4

LC Classification PS3503.A923 .W598 1998

LC Control No. 98036394

Subject

Children
Children's Stories, American
Children's Stories, American/ History And Criticism
Children/ Books And Reading/ United States/ History/ 20th Century
Fantasy Fiction, American/ History And Criticism

Plot

Does The Wizard of Oz touch a spiritual chord in each one of us because it has a certain Zen to it? Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, is clearly a Zen Master. She sets Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road to spiritual enlightenment. When Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion let go of their conscious yearning and free their minds to function spontaneously and inharmony with the cosmos, brains, heart, and courage flow easily and effortlessly. Ultimately, Dorothy attains satori, the Zen experience of "awakening." She finds her true Self, her higher consciousness, her ultimate Oneness with the cosmos--and her home.