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Great Song: The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller

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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.

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."

...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.

i used to walk in golden gate park with Joe. This book captures his essence and the power of his teaching. He was a remarkable hidden homegrown saint in america. If you want to taste a bit of his teaching then read this book. It can change your life.