Introduction    ix

It's Up To You    1
     Dzigar Kongtrül
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 Chödrön
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