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Title: The Best Buddhist Writing 2007
Editor: Melvin McLeod & Shambhala Sun
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 9781590304976

Back Cover text
The Best Buddhist Writing 2007 includes:

• Dzongsar Khyentse on what makes you not a Buddhist
• Daniel Goleman on the altruistic impulse
• Jarvis Jay Masters on practicing dharma in the prison yard
• Stephanie Kaza on the Buddhist basis for environmental activism
• Natelie Goldberg on the surprises of practicing Zen in Japan
• Interviews with the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh
• Bell Hooks on how love heals the wound of oppression 
• Leonard Cohen's poem about his Zen practice, "My Life In Robes"
• Alice Walker on how political criticism, poetic sensibility, and Buddhist practice can combine to produce a powerful platform for personal and social progress. 
• And much more

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Table of contents

.....What Makes You Not A Buddhist - Dzongsar Khyentse
.....Letting Go - Judith Lief
.....Writers And The War Against Nature - Gary Snyder
.....Creating A Culture of Love - Bell Hooks
.....He Had Me At Hello - Perry Garfinkel
.....How To See Yourself As You Really Are - His Holiness the Dalai Lama
.....Love Without Limit: An Interview With Thich Nhat Hanh
.....One True Home - Thich Nhat Hanh*
.....There Is No "I" In Happy - Matthieu Ricard
.....On The Shore To Lake Biwa - Natalie Goldberg
.....Wanting Elightment Is A Big Mistake - Seung Sahn
.....Discovering The True Nature of Mind - Thrangu Rinpoche
.....Momma Zen - Karen Miller
.....Reflections On My Mother's Love - Ajahn Amaro*
.....Hardwired For Altruism - Daniel Goleman
.....Impermanence Rocks! - Daniel Dancer
.....Beautiful Snowflakes - Norman Fischer
.....Eight Flashing Lances - Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
.....Reentry - Jennifer Lauck
.....Birthing - Nancy Bardacke
.....Through The Lens of Attention - Michael Krasner
.....Five Reasons To Get Cancer - John Tarrant
.....Married To The Guru - Diana Mukpo and Carolyn Rose Gimian
.....My Life In Robes - Poems by Leonard Cohen*
.....Suffering Too Insignificant For The Majority To See - Alice Walker
.....Turning Your Whole Way of Thinking Upside Down - Pema Chodron*
.....Pitbull - Jarvis Jay Masters
.....Are You Joining A Cult? - Donna Lavong
.....What's Crazy, Really? - Layla Mason
.....The Dharma of Social Transformation - Charles Johnson
.....Healing The Earth - Stephanie Kaza
.....Mindful Marriage - Christopher Germer
.....Nirvana - Gill Fronsdal, Anam Thubthen Rinpoche and Roko Sherry Chayat*
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* Love these the most.

Where can you get the book
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