PART SIX THREE GREEN BOOKS Reformed Druids like stories and short pithy wisdom sayings. Over the years, various Arch-Druids have collected good stories to share with their fellow Grove members, especially during the meditative part of the Order of Worship. Some consider the meditation to be the very heart and purpose of the ritual, so chose a selection care- fully. If you can’t find one, perhaps one of these may work for you. At Carleton, the first Green Book (named after its cover), proved influential, but the 2nd and 3rd volumes seem much less so. THE DRYNEMTUM PRESS BABABABABABABABABABABABABABAB TABLE OF CONTENTS Sayings of Mohammed Morning Star Overwhelming 1966 Introduction by Frangquist 1976 Introduction by Shelton Sayings of the Unitarians 1996 Note by Scharding Out of the Stars GREEN BOOK Volume One Sayings of Baha’u’llah Sayings of the Ancient Druids On the Soul On Politics On Religion Sayings from the Poets On Various Things A Faery Song The Prophet Sayings of the Hindus Fergus and the Druid Rig-Veda: To the Waters The Arthura Veda: Hail! Sayings of the Psychologists Upanishads:Self Rig-Veda: Creation Bhagavad Gita: Atman GREEN BOOK Volume Two Sri-Ramakrishna Celtic, Native American,African, Hindu & Greek Writings Sayings from the Buddhists English Poetry Four Noble Truths Stopping by the Woods Questions not Edification Jabberwocky Rain Cloud Mahayana Ideal Welsh and Irish Poetry Sayings from Zen Masters The Waterfall Sadness in Spring Two Mice Rain Outside Miracles Winter and Warfare Gutei’s finger Mountain Snow Dialogue for Lodging Bright Trees Haiku Spoils of Annwn Cad Goddeau Sayings of the Taoist Sages Leadership Thirty Spokes Sunshine Through My Window Block of Wood Suggested further reading Water Counting Words Thirteen Fold Mysteries Traveling Nichol’s 13 Williams’ 13 Sayings of Confucius Graves’ 13 Confucius the Man Another 13 On learning Reciprocity The Voyage of Bran Religion Gentlemen Proverbs of the Modern Gaels From the Old Testament Advice Attitudes Psalm 104 Behavior Psalm 8 Company Contentment From the New Testament Death Sermon on the Mount Education & Experience I Corinthians 13 Fate Fighting Sayings from the Zoroastrian Foolishness God & Heaven Prayer for Guidance Greed Hope Humor 224 Hypocrisy & Integrity GREEN BOOK Volume Three Love Oriental and Monotheist Wisdom Nature Politics Pride Zen Koans Tact & Talk See his Buddha Nature Wisdom Yueh holds it Work Pai-yuns’ Black and white The Dry Creek Wisdom of the Native Americans Yueh-shan’s Lake Born Natural Living Alone Sacred Earth Nan Ch’uan’s rejection Silent Vigils Simple Truth Thoughts from Confucius Courtesy Conversation Tao of Pooh Persistence Crowned Leadership The Stone cutter Pine Tree Chiefs The Cork Not By Bread Alone Show Me Te of Piglet Free Wisdom Making the best of it Quarreling about God Sherlock on religion God Made Me This Way Emperor’s horses Pausing Incognito Please Listen Three Treasures The Views of Two Men Fantasies Misfortune Live, but live well Pretty Pebbles Illusions The Power of Paper Samurai’s late supper Frantic Fools Cities The Gospel According to Zen The White Man’s Dreams Jesus said... The Vigil Gasan and the bible Stringless Harp Wisdom of the Africans Eat when Hungry Proverbs on Wisdom Sporting Fish Proverbs on Truth and Falsehood Empty Boats Proverbs on Human Conduct Three in the Morning Proverbs on Virtue Zen Archery Proverbs on Cooperation and Contentment Meshing Nets Proverbs on Opportunity Proverbs on Human Beings The Butterflies of Chuang Tzu Proverbs on Nature The Dream Proverbs on Leadership What is Acceptable? The Argument More Wisdom of the African World Happy Fish Seven Openings Wisdom of the Hindus and Greeks Look Under Your Feet Frogs Desiring a King The Sacred Tortoise The Bat, the Birds and the Beasts The Frog in the Well the Dog and the Wolf The Caged Sea-bird The Fox and the Grapes Swimming Boatmen The Lion and the Statue Old Man Fall into Water The Man and His Wives The Two Crabs Christian Selections Hercules and the Waggoner Is God A Taoist? The Man and the Wooden God Christian Thoughts The Miser John Shea and bird The Bundle of Sticks Monika Hellwig Catholic The Buffoon and the Countryman On Nature and On Blood The Serpent and the File Original Lilith Myth 225 Not a Good Pupil Scots Gaelic Poems Hidden Depths The Secret The Heron The Wisdom of Silence The Great Artist Grateful to Allah Safety Three Random Pieces Happiness is not where you seek it Brotherhood There is More Light Here A Starfish The Blind Man and the Lamp An Island with Two Churches Salt is not Wool The Trip Wit and Wisdom of Islam Something Fell The Fool and the King The Tax Man The Breaking Appreciation The Stink of Greed Forgotten Question The Claim A Moment in Time Names All I Needed was Time The Muezzin’s Call The Short Cut The Drum To Deal with the Enemy The Majesty of the Sea Ambition Various Other Quotes Acquaintance Art, Beauty, and Poetry The Guest Community and Conversation The Man with the really ugly face Custom, Justice, and Law The Mirror Death and Fate Is it Me? Earth and Ecology The Gypsy and his Son Education and Learning Where There’s a Will Fear and Freedom The Sermon of Nasrudin Fools and Humor Nasrudin and the Wise Men Leadership First Things First Practical Simplicity Whose Shot was That? Prayer Same Strength Priests The Value of the Past Religion Second Thoughts Silence The Orchard Travel The Grammarian Truth Wisdom 226 the consciousness of the Carleton Grove, larger even, perhaps, than The Green Book the Druid Chronicles. These meditations were gathered by David Volume One Frangquist as an aid to lazy Arch-Druids (or so he said), and the collection was bound in green covers which readily distinguish it from the black covers of the Book of Worship and the blue covers of The Original 1966 Introduction the Archives; indeed at Carleton it is called simply “the green book”— Those who join the Reformed Druids are, in one sense or an- and that has become in effect its title. These meditations found their other, religious rebels. They are usually fed up with the hypocrisies way with increasing frequency into services at Carleton, not from and inadequacies of the institutionalized churches. They seek a sa- increasing laziness, but from increasing awareness of the treasures tyric outlet, and they find it in Druidism. But they are seldom anti- that David had gathered together between the green covers. Mem- religious. On the contrary, they often feel that there is in fact some bers of the grove would often borrow the book for their own medita- truth to be found in religion, and this belief is affirmed in the Basic tion and reflection, and eventually the essence and core of Druidism Tenets. A common complaint among Druids is that the truth has at Carleton could be found in seminal form within this free-form, been obscured because they have been forced, more or less against eclectic collection more than any place else—save only the great world their will, into various particular religious molds. They seek to be at large, whence, after all, these meditations came. freed—freed in order to freely seek, and to make independent judg- And so we have thought it appropriate to print The Green Book ments on what passes for religious truth. to bring it to a larger audience, in the hope that others, too, may find Druidism, as an institution, must remain independent. It can never it useful in the search for awareness. The pages of the original are hope to profess absolute truth; for when it does, it then will become unnumbered, for David encouraged his successors to add such medi- no better than the fossilized institutions from which its members tations as they found appropriate. We encourage our readers to do have fled. But even while it systematically shuns dogmatism, it can— likewise, and have accordingly left the pages unnumbered. There and must—still lead. It must provide the opportunity for discovery, have been additions since David’s time, but they have been few. For which many of its members have never had. It must, in short, pro- this edition we have included several selections that have long wanted vide in its written meditations a taste of the writings of the world’s adding; the Yeats poems, for example, which have almost become great religions, in the hope that this taste will stimulate a wider search part of the Carleton liturgy. We have resisted the temptations to for knowledge and wisdom in the quest for religious truth. make a few excisions. We should especially have liked to excise the As Arch-Druid, you are charged with preparing meditations which “Sayings of the Ancient Druids” which are no more Druidic than is will prove meaningful to the congregation. In order to do this, you Stonehenge, and which certainly cannot be said to represent the must choose selections from the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Taoists, beliefs of the Reformed Druids; yet David included it, and we shall the Muslims, and many others, as well as from the Bible. You must not gainsay him. provide a wide variety in order to give truth a chance. The best method Herewith, then is The Green Book, in substantially the same form is to study widely yourself. But this can be too time-consuming. I as it was bequeathed to Carleton by David. May you find joy in the therefore strongly urge you to purchase, for your own edification, an reading! excellent and useful collection: Viking Portable #5, Henry Ballou’s World Bible.