Introduction  ix

The Wise Heart  1
Jack Kornfield

Light Comes Through  12
Dzigar Kongtrül

The Blue Poppy  26
Kathleen Willis Morton

Razor-Wire Dharma  34
Calvin Malone

Mindfulness and Compassion: Tools for Transforming Suffering into Joy  39
Phillip Moffitt

What Is This?  52
Martine Batchelor

Koans for Troubled Times  58
Joan Sutherland

The World We Have  69
Thich Nhat Hanh

Cranes in the DMZ  76
Alan Weisman

The Living Soil: The Ground of Beginner’s Mind  81
Wendy Johnson

Waking Up to Your World  86
Pema Chödrön

The Majesty of Your Loving: A Couple’s Journey Through Alzheimer’s  93
Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle

Compassion Is the Root of All Practices  103
His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa

The Wooden Puppet and Iron Man: Selfless Compassion, Radical Optimism  107
Joan Halifax

Sailing Home  116
Norman Fischer

Intimate Relationship as a Spiritual Crucible  125
John Welwood

Love’s Garden 137
Peggy Rowe-Ward and Larry Ward

The Kindness Handbook: Communication  146
Sharon Salzberg

Where the Buddha Lives  150
Lin Jensen

Wisdom of the Rebels  158
Tom Robbins

Where Is God When Stick Hit Floor?  165
Rabbi Rami Shapiro

Old Friend from Far Away  172
Natalie Goldberg

There Is Much We Do Not Know about the Feelings of Butterflies  182
Liza Dalby

Of Course I’m Angry!  187
Gabriel Cohen

Long Journey to a Bow  196
Christina Feldman

Healing Ecology  203
David Loy

Mindfully Green  212
Stephanie Kaza

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama  225
Pico Iyer

The Art of Losing: On Writing, Dying, and Mom 237
Ruth L. Ozeki

Detours from Reality  254
Ezra Bayda

Time and Again  262
Adam Frank

This Very Mind, Empty and Luminous  273
The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Contributors  287
Credits  295