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[Page 2] This eBook is offered freely. If you wish, you may donate and help us continue offering our services. May you be happy! To make a donation, please visit: www.pariyatti.org PARIYATTI 867 Larmon Road Onalaska, Washington 98570 USA 360.978.4998 www.pariyatti.org Pariyatti is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the world by: v Disseminating the words of the Buddha v Providing sustenance for the seeker’s journey v Illuminating the meditator’s path [Page 3] Cultivating Inner Peace [Page 4] For S.N.G. with lifetimes of gratitude [Page 5] C ULTIVATING I NNER P EACE Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. with a Foreword by William Radice, D.Phil. Pariyatti Press • Seattle EXPLORING THE PSYCHOLOGY , WISDOM , AND POETRY OF G ANDHI , T HOREAU , THE B UDDHA , AND OTHERS [Page 6] Pariyatti Press ( an imprint of Pariyatti Publishing ) 867 Larmon Road Onalaska, WA 98570, USA www.pariyatti.org c 1997, 2003 Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. First Edition, 1997 Second edition, 2004 Reprint: 2010 All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without prior written permission of Pariyatti Press, except in the case of brief quota- tions embodied in critical articles and reviews. ISBN: 978-1-928706-25-0 Print 978-1-928706-66-3 Ebook (PDF) Library of Congress Control Number: 2003112385 Cover photograph and cover design by Julie Schaeffer [Page 7] Permissions Excerpts from Living the Good Life by Helen and Scott Near- ing, Copyright c 1954, copyright renewed 1982 by Helen Nearing. Reprinted by permission of Shocken Books, distributed by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Excerpts from A Flight of Swans by A. Bose, John Murray (Pub- lishers) Ltd. Excerpts from Harding, W . The Days of Henry Thoreau, A Biog- raphy, Dover, N.Y., 1982, see pp. 454-68. Approximately 65 words from The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Juan Mascaró (Penguin Classics, 1962), copyright c Juan Mascaró, 1962. Reproduced by permis sion of Penguin Books Ltd. Approximately 60 words from The Dhammapada, translated by Juan Mascaró (Pen guin Classics, 1973), copyright c Juan Mascaró, 1973. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Extract from “The Boderland-9” by Rabindranath Tagore From Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by William Radice (Penguin Modern Classics, 1985). Translation copyright c William Radice, 1985. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Permission to reprint the poetry of Nyogen Senazki kindly granted by Eido Shi-mano Roshi, Abbot, The Zen Studies Society, Inc. Excerpts from Like a Dream, Like a Fantasy edited with an intro- duction by Eido Shimano Roshi, copyright c 1978, The Zen Studies Society, Inc.