Introduction -- The Wise Heart / Jack Kornfield -- Light Comes Through / Dzigar Kongtrül -- The Blue Poppy / Kathleen Willis Morton -- Razor-wire Dharma / Calvin Malone -- Mindfulness And Compassion: Tools For Transforming Suffering Into Joy / Phillip Moffitt -- What Is This? / Martine Batchelor -- Koans For Troubled Times / Joan Sutherland -- The World We Have / Thich Nhat Hanh -- Cranes In The Dmz / Alan Weisman -- The Living Soul: The Ground Of Beginner's Mind / Wendy Johnson -- Waking Up To Your World / Pema Chödrön -- The Majesty Of Your Loving: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's / Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle -- Compassion Is The Root Of All Practices / His Holiness The Seventh Karmapa -- The Wooden Puppet And The Iron Man: Selfless Compassion, Radical Optimism / Joan Halifax -- Sailing Home / Norman Fischer -- Intimate Relationship As A Spiritual Crucible / John Welwood -- Love's Garden / Peggy Rowe-ward And Larry Ward -- The Kindness Handbook: Communication / Sharon Salzberg -- Where The Buddha Lives / Lin Jensen -- Wisdom Of The Rebels / Tom Robbins -- Where Is God When Stick Hit Floor? / Rabbi Rami Shapiro -- Old Friend From Far Away / Natalie Goldberg -- There Is Much We Do Not Know About The Feelings Of Butterflies / Liza Dalby -- Of Course I'm Angry! / Gabriel Cohen -- Long Journey To A Bow / Christina Feldman -- Healing Ecology / David Loy -- Mindfully Green / Stephanie Kaza -- The Open Road: The Global Journey Of The Fourteenth Dalai Lama / Pico Iyer -- The Art Of Losing: On Writing, Dying, And Mom / Ruth L. Ozeki -- Detours From Reality / Ezra Bayda -- Time And Again / Adam Frank -- This Very Mind, Empty And Luminous / The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. Edited By Melvin Mcleod And The Editors Of The Shambhala Sun.

McLeod, Melvin; Shambhala Publications, Inc

Melvin McLeod; Shambhala Publications, Inc

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New Seeds Books

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2010 edition, Boston, Mass, ©2010

Introduction
The wise heart -- Jack Kornfield
Light comes through -- Dzigar Kongtru˜l
The blue poppy -- Kathleen Willis Morton
Razor-wire Dharma -- Calvin Malone -- Mindfulness and compassion: tools for transforming suffering into joy / -- Phillip Moffitt
What is this? -- Martine Batchelor
Koans for troubled times -- Joan Sutherland
The world we have -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Cranes in the DMZ -- Alan Weisman
The living soul: the ground of beginner's mind -- Wendy Johnson
Waking up to your world -- Pema Cho˜dro˜n -- The majesty of your loving: a couple's journey through Alzheimer's / -- Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle
Compassion is the root of all practices -- His Holiness the Seventh Karmapa
The wooden puppet and the iron man: selfless compassion, radical optimism -- Joan Halifax
Sailing home -- Norman Fischer
Intimate relationship as a spiritual crucible -- John Welwood
Love's garden -- Peggy Rowe-Ward and Larry Ward
The kindness handbook: communication -- Sharon Salzberg
Where the Buddha lives -- Lin Jensen
Wisdom of the rebels -- Tom Robbins
Where is God when stick hit floor? -- Rabbi Rami Shapiro
Old friend from far away -- Natalie Goldberg
There is much we do not know about the feelings of butterflies -- Liza Dalby
Of course I'm angry! -- Gabriel Cohen
Long journey to a bow -- Christina Feldman
Healing ecology -- David Loy
Mindfully green -- Stephanie Kaza
The open road: the global journey of the fourteenth Dalai Lama -- Pico Iyer
The art of losing: on writing, dying, and mom -- Ruth L. Ozeki
Detours from reality -- Ezra Bayda
Time and again -- Adam Frank
This very mind, empty and luminous -- The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.

A treasury of the most notable, profound, and thought-provoking Buddhism-inspired writing published in the last year.
The Best Buddhist Writing 2009
An interview with novelist Tom Robbins
Guiding principles for a new ecospirituality from Thich Nhat Hanh
Jack Kornfield on basic human goodness
Pico Iyers portrait of the Dalai Lama
Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle on a couples journey through Alzheimers disease
The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche on the true, enlightened nature of mind
Wendy Johnson on bringing the beginners mind to gardening
A mindfulness practice from Pema Chdrn to help us wake up to the world around us
Joan Halifax on approaching death with fearlessness and compassion
Peggy Rowe-Ward and Larry Ward with stories, meditations, and exercises for experiencing love in a new and deeper way
Natalie Goldberg on the art of writing personal memoir
Dzigar Kongtrl on our search for happiness
Sharon Salzberg on overcoming passion, aggression, and ignorance in our relationships
Stephanie Kaza on making environmentalism a spiritual path, not just a change in lifestyle
Meshuga- wisdom from Rabbi Rami Shapiro
John Welwood on how we can use our relationships for profound spiritual growth
And much more

Offers an entertaining mix of writing styles on a wide range of issues from a Buddhist point of view, including pieces by the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hahn, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Pema Ch��dr��n, Jack Kornfield, Natalie Goldberg, Alan Weisman, Tom Robbins, Joan Sutherland, and many more. Original.

xiii, 299 pages ; 22 cm

2023-06-28