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The Best Buddhist Writing 2013

Edited by Melvin McLeodAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Melvin McLeod and editors of the Shambhala SunAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by editors of the Shambhala Sun
Contribution by Pema ChodronAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Pema Chodron, Lodro RinzlerAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Lodro Rinzler and Natalie GoldbergAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Natalie Goldberg

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Published by: Shambhala

On Sale: September 24, 2013
Pages: 336 | ISBN: 978-1-61180-069-2
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Religion - Buddhism - Theravada; Religion - Buddhism - Tibetan; Religion - Zen Buddhism
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An eclectic and thought-provoking collection of Buddhist and Buddhist-inspired writings on a wide range of issues published in North America during 2012.
The collection includes writings by Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joseph Goldstein, Natalie Goldberg, Sylvia Boorstein, Dzongsar Khyentse, Sakyong Mipham, Norman Fischer, Philip Moffitt, Karen Miller, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Kay Larson, and Lodro Rinzler, among others.  Selected by the editors of the Shambhala Sun, North America's leading Buddhist-inspired magazine, this anthology offers an entertaining mix of writing styles and reflects on a wide range of issues from a Buddhist point of view.

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Introduction ix

This Truth Never Fails - David Rynick
Be Still - Elihu Genmyo Smith
The Buddha Walks into a Bar - Lodro Rinzler
How to Meditate - Sakyong Mipham
Where the Heart Beats - Kay Larson
If You’re Lucky, Your Heart Will Break - James Ishmael Ford
Impermanence Is Buddha Nature - Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Living Fully - Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche
Not for Happiness - Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
The Vagabond Queen of Craigslist - Bonnie Friedman
The Three Marks of Existence - Sylvia Boorstein
Booooring . . . - Karen Maezen Miller
Playing with Buddha - Ira Sukrungruang
Good Citizens: Creating Enlightened Society - Thich Nhat Hanh
Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change - Pema Chödrön
Fifty-Nine Ways to Make the Teachings Real - Judy Lief
Open Heart, Open Mind - Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Waking Up to Happiness - Natalie Goldberg
The Long Road to Sitting Still - Pico Iyer
Emotional Chaos to Clarity - Phillip Moffitt
Everyday Meditation: A Nine-Minute Daily Practice - Joseph Goldstein
Breaking Through - Ezra Bayda
Not Quite Nirvana - Rachel Neumann
The Power of Gone - Shinzen Young
The Third Turning of the Wheel - Reb Anderson
The Heart Attack Sutra - Karl Brunnhölzl
Uprooting the Seeds of Anger - Jules Shuzen Harris, Sensei
I Kinda Vow - Genine Lentine

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Pema Chodron

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Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chögyam Trungpa, the renowned meditation master. She is the author of The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, and The Places That Scare You, and she is resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners.

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