Poignant, practical, and profound, The Best Buddhist Writing 2006 offers an eclectic and thought-provoking mix of Buddhist-inspired writing published during 2005. This year�s collection includes fiction, personal stories, essays on such themes as love, parenting, and social, political, and global issues, and practical teachings that are insightful, relevant, and helpful to your life. All are informed by a spiritual philosophy and practice that is at once profound yet accessible, radical yet life-affirming. This volume contains writings by some familiar favorites, as well as some new voices.
Contributors:
Dzigar Kongtr�l * Joan Sutherland * Thich Nhat Hanh * Marc Ian Barasch * Polly Trout * Lin Jensen * Sakyong Mipham * Sharon Salzberg * Anne Cushman * Katy Butler * Peter J. Conradi * Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede * The Dalai Lama * George Crane * Christina Feldman * Mariana Caplan * Pema Ch�dr�n * Carolyn Gimian * Norman Fischer * Charles Johnson * Jon Kabat-Zinn * Tenshin Reb Anderson * Erik Hansen * Diana Atkinson * Judith Toy * Frank Olendski * David Loy * The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche * Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche * John Welwood * Nancy Hathaway * Mark Magill * Noelle Oxenhandler
Best Buddhist Writing 2006, Melvin McLeod, ed., Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 2006, 317 pp., $15.95
Melvin McLeod is the editor-in-chief of the Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma: A Practitioner's Quarterly. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Table of Contents for The Best Buddhist Writing 2006
Introduction ix It's Up To You 1
Dzigar Kongtr�l
This Floating World 11
Joan Sutherland
Searching for the Heart of Compassion 20
Marc Ian Barasch
Hair-Braiding Meditation 35
Polly Trout
Maintenance, Seeing, The Questioner 37
Three short essays by Lin Jensen
The Dragon's Mind and the Power of Nonself 47
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Surprised by Joy 53
Sharon Salzberg
What Is Death, Mommy? 57
Anne Cushman
Everything Is Holy 64
Katy Butler
The Mystic and the Cynic 74
Peter J. Conradi
The Great Doubt 86
Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
Studying Mind from the Inside 97
The Dalai Lama
A Saint Beyond My Understanding 105
George Crane
She Who Hears the Cries of the World 114
Christina Feldman
Death Don't Have No Mercy: A Memoir of My Mother's Death 123
Mariana Caplan
No Time to Lose 135
Pema Ch�dr�n
The Three Lords of Materialism 149
Carolyn Rose Gimian
Wash Your Bowls 160
Norman Fischer
Dr. King's Refrigerator 173
A short story by Charles R. Johnson
Coming to Our Senses 180
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Just Sitting 194
Tenshin Reb Anderson
After the Flood 203
Erik Hansen
A Life Cut to Pieces 208
Diana Atkinson
Murder as a Call to Love 219
Judith Toy
Removing the Thorn 223
Frank Olendzki
Ego Goes Global 227
David Loy
Contemplating Emptiness 232
The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
My Guru 249
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
The Perfect Love We Seek, The Imperfect Love We Live 260
John Welwood
I'm Breathing, Are You? 272
Nancy Hathaway
Passing It On 282
Mark Magill
To Drink a Glass of Water 285
Noelle Oxenhandler
A Century of Spirituality 291
Thich Nhat Hanh Contributors 301 Credits 313
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