Great Song: The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller [Paperback]

Richard Power (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Maypop (December 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0961891688
• ISBN-13: 978-0961891688
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #399,172 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Joe Miller The Ordinary Joe, January 19, 2003

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Stephen Holder - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great Song: The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller (Paperback)

Joe, my best freind and the guy I chose to miss a day of work to walk with him and his wife Guinn every week in Golden Gate Park. More than this, he inspired Shambhala Publications and was the silent Guru to many practicioners, setting them straight, during the sprititural shopping era of the 60's and 70's. He practiced meditation in the 1930's in San Fransicos's China Town, a lone Westener, and lived a life of a Bodhisattva and Guru until his death. He did this with no thought of gain or without ever promoting himself. His favorite saying was " Give Love with no thought of return". He practiced and taught this daily. Not with words only, but through his being. The people he worked with are many and some are famous, but that is not the point, His ordinary-ness "is", and it is captured in this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A roadmap for finding your way, June 15, 2010

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MP Macy (New Delhi, India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great Song: The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller (Paperback)

If you have ever wondered if there are any real, American born and raised, GREAT BEINGS, saints, or however you want to describe someone who really knows the score, doubt no longer, Joe Miller was the real thing. This book is about as close as you can get to who he was and what he taught. Joe said when asked about what to look for in a teacher, "A sense of humor, all the great ones have a sense of humor" and Joe had humor by the bucket load. The kind of self-deprecating, never mean, en light tening humor, the best kind. And the he was all heart. So if you think that only the exotic East, a Mexican desert or the Amazonian jungle can produce holy men, think again. Joe came from Minnesota and was as wholly as they come in every sense of the word. Read the book, and then go out looking for whoever knows what Joe knew, and be still, cause as Joe said, "If you listened to what I said, you missed it, you have to feel it."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended, July 9, 2006

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Brian P (Raleigh NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great Song: The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller (Paperback)

...An inspirational book to me on my journey (and one of the single greatest cover photos in the history of publishing!).
This wonderful book, and the wisdom and joy inside it, deserve a wider audience. Enjoy it for yourself.