Acknowledgments vii
Introduction xi

Part One: Body as Suffering
Joan Iten Sutherland: Body of Radiant Knots 3
Darlene Cohen: The Only Way I Know to Alleviate Suffering 10
Joan Tollifson: Enjoying the Perfection of Imperfection 18
Barbara Gates: A Mama Raccoon in the Net of Indra 25
Barbara Brodsky: No Eye, Ear, Nose... 35
Katherine Thanas: Hearing the Voice of the Body 43
Naomi Newman: About Death 48


Part Two: Body as Nature
Kuya Minogue: Running the Bush 50
Linda Chrisman: Birth 59
Connie Batten: Midlife Sacrament 65
Lenore Friedman: Aging as a Russian Doll 71
Helena Norberg-Hodge: Our Body and Our Economy 78

Part Three: Body as Gender
Fran Tribe: Piecing Together a Life 87
Rita M. Gross: Anger and Meditation 90
Linda Ruth Cutts: Breaking through the Concrete 90
Jisho Warner: What Do Lesbians Do in the Daytime 90
Maylie Scott: Celibate 115

Part Four: Body as Vehicle
Bobby Rhodes: Bowing to the Great Mirror 125
Ruth Zaporah: Dance: A Body with a Mind of Its Own 128
Phyllis Pay: Meeting Vajrayogini 133
Anne C. Klein: Grounding and Opening 139
Casey Hayden: Body on the Line 148
Michele Martin: On the Other Side of Attachment 153
Pema Chödrön: Three Methods for Working with Chaos 163

Part Five: Body as Self
Jan Chozen Bays: Embodiment 171
Michele Mcdonald-Smith: Of Mud and Broken Windows 173
Toni Packer and Lenore Friedman: Tracking the Two Bodies 178
China Galland: The Formless Form: Buddhism and the Community of Recovery 185
Linda Hess: Craving 197

Furyu Nancy Schroeder and Grace Dammann: A Conduit for Love: Adopting a Positive Daughter 207
Julie Henderson: Tulku 216
Susan Moon: The Lonely Body 223
Charlotte Joko Beck: Our Substitute Life 230

About the Contributors 235
Credits 241