The best of Inquiring mind : twenty-five years of dharma, drama, & uncommon insight / [edited by Barbara Gates and Wes Nisker].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gates, Barbara, 1946-

Nisker, Wes.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious life--Buddhism.

Religious life.

Buddhism--Doctrines.

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Wisdom Publications, [2008]

Summary:

Inquiring Mind has been a pathblazer at the forefront of Buddhism in the West Rich in insight, humor, and world-renowned expertise, The Best of Inquiring Mind is an unprecedented gathering of wisdom from the minds of some of the most influential thinkers in the realm of modern Dharma.

Contents:

I Path of the Elders: East Moving West 1

1 Conversation with a Spiritual Friend: An Interview with Joseph Goldstein 5

2 Master of the Dhamma: An Interview with S.N. Goenka 10

3 Stories of Dipa Ma / Michele McDonald, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Carol Wilson, Jack Engler 16

4 The Happy Monk: An Interview with Ajahn Amaro 21

5 The Timeless Teachings: An Interview with Sharon Salzberg 28

6 Bringing Mindfulness to Mainstream America: An Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn 34

7 Talkin' 'bout Our G-G-Generations: Noah Levine in Conversation with Wes Nisker 43

8 Advice from the Dalai Lama / Jack Kornfield 50

II Living & Dying in a Body 57

1 Mr. Lucky / Rick Kohn 60

2 Getting It? Or How I Learned to Let Go, by Diana Winston 62

3 Mara's Daughter Turns Fifty: Belly Dancing for the Buddha / Terry Vandiver 67

4 Coming Out Whole / Caitriona Reed 71

5 Meat Puppets / Kate Lila Wheeler 76

6 Stories of Lives Lived and Now Ending / Frank Ostaseski 80

7 Gabe and the Medicine Buddha / Rick Fields 86

8 Tsunami Psychologist / Ronna Kabatznick 92

III Science of Mind 97

1 Beyond Mental Health: An Interview with Jack Kornfield 100

2 Mystery Remains-A Scientist Meets a Monk: An Interview with Paul Ekman 107

3 Two Person Meditation: Psychotherapy with Mark Epstein 116

4 The Worst Zen Student That Ever Was: Reflections on Depression and Buddhist Practice / Susan Moon 120

5 What a Relief! I Don't Exist-Buddhism and the Brain: An Interview with Francisco Varela 126

IV The Dharma & the Drama 131

1 The Sacred and the Lost / Norman Fischer 134

2 Luck Disguised as Ordinary Life / Nina Wise 138

3 A Love Letter to Garbage / Barbara Gates 145

4 Looking at Fear: Memory of a Near Lynching / Charlie Johnson 150

5 Rhubarb / Edward Espe Brown 154

V Complementary Paths 161

1 Complementary Paths: An Interview with Stephen Batchelor 165

2 Devotional Practices and Vipassana: An Interview with Ram Dass 175

3 Dzogchen and Vipassana: An Interview with Tsoknyi Rinpoche 180

4 Who's Asking the Questions Here?: A Non-interview with Hari Lal Poonja 185

5 On Fearlessness and Fear: A Conversation with Tenzin Palmo, Ajahn Sundara, Ajahn Jitindriya, and Yvonne Rand 192

VI Practices 199

1 Why I Meditate (After Allen Ginsberg) / Wes Nisker 202

2 Technology of Breathing In and Out / Santikaro 204

3 Biting into the Mango: Doing Jhana Practice with Ayya Khema 208

4 Passionate Dharma-Tantric Practice: An Interview with Miranda Shaw 215

5 Buddhist Humor Practice: It Hurts So I Laugh / Rev. Heng Sure 221

6 Undiluted Dharma Practice: An Interview with Joseph Goldstein 226

7 Compressing Eons of Lifetimes into One: Vajrayana Impermanence Practice / Robert Thurman 231

VII Artists & Jesters of the Dharma 235

1 Wisdom Crazy: An Interview with Steven Goodman 238

2 Poems & Not Poems: Neruda's Book of Questions / Judith Stronach 243

3 Illuminating the Sky of One Mind: Jack Kerouac as Dharma Ancestor / Patrick McMahon 246

4 Beat Poetry Returns the Dharma to China: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg 251

5 Notes on Sitting Beside a Noble Corpse-Light Breeze Stirring the Curtains, Blue-Faint Tremor of His Blue Shroud / Anne Waldman 255

6 The Big Awakening / Andrew Cooper 257

7 Meditations on Laundry / Barbara Gates 263

8 John Cage and the Music of Sound 267

VIII Tending to the World 273

1 The Third Turning of the Wheel: An Interview with Joanna Macy 277

2 Chan on Turtle Island: An Interview with Gary Snyder 281

3 In the Language of Love: A Conversation between Ajahn Pasanno and Julia Butterfly Hill 288

4 The Nothingness of the Ground / Wendy Johnson 295

5 Indigenous Dharma-Native American and Buddhist Voices: Eduardo Duran, Lorain Fox Davis, Tsultrim Allione 297

6 Just One Minute / Naomi Baer 304

7 Living Time, Not Doing Time: An Interview with Kiran Bedi and Lucia Meijer 307

8 The Goddess Saves the Earth / China Galland 315

9 Stop! A Buddhist Is Here! / Jarvis Masters 322.

Notes:

A selection of articles from the journal Inquiring mind.

Statement of responsibility from cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0861715519

9780861715510

OCLC:

235945979