Embrace
Change: Eleven teachers and writers on life’s central challenge and the
key to the Buddhist path. Plus, the inspiring life of Thich Nhat Hanh’s
closest collaborator, running with the mind of meditation, how thoughts
can free us (rather than control us) and much more.
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• Embracing Change, We Discover the Changeless
By Shambhala Sun Editor-in-Chief Melvin McLeod.
features
• Path of Peace: The Life and Teachings of Sister Chan Khong
She's Thich Nhat Hanh’s invaluable collaborator, and a dedicated activist and gifted teacher in her own right. Andrea Miller tells her extraordinary story.
• The Teacher-Student Relationship
We continue our presentation of never-before-published teachings by
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of this magazine. In this issue: how our relationship with the teacher evolves in the three vehicles of Buddhism.
RELATED SHAMBHALA SUN SPOTLIGHT:
• The Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa
MORE FEATURES FROM OUR MAY 2012 MAGAZINE: Tsokyni Rinpoche on how to experience two of mind's most profound qualities; Michael Stone on the uncle who helped him to think in new ways.
special section: embrace change
• Impermanence is Buddha Nature
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
starts our special section with an overview of Buddhism’s unique
approach to this universal challenge and reality. Change, he says, isn’t
just a fact of life we have to work with. It’s enlightenment itself,
manifesting moment by moment in time.
Plus ten other leading
Buddhist teachers and writers offer personal stories, teachings, and
meditations to touch our hearts, open our minds, and help us embrace the
change in our own lives:
• Judy Lief: This Morning • Joan Sutherland: Seasons of Awakening
• Elaine Smookler: Blindsided • Cyndi Lee: Never Too Old • Melissa Myozen Blacker: The Joyful Leap • Barry Boyce: Bon Voyage • Sylvia Boorstein: How Many Copies? • Lodro Rinzler: Intentional Change • Noah Levine: Already Broken • Shozan Jack Haubner: Where Is the True Place?
other voices
• Running Into Meditation
Meditating and running go hand in hand, says Sakyong Mipham. Exercise can be a support for meditation, and meditation can be a support for exercise.RELATED SHAMBHALASUN.COM SPOTLIGHT:
• Sakyong Mipham: His best from the Shambhala Sun
• A Complicated Burden
There was nothing Sandy Boucher
could have done to prevent the tragedy. Yet decade after decade, she
has carried the burden of guilt. This is a meditation on living with
what can not be undone.• The Beautiful Energy of Thoughts
Working with our thoughts is the greatest challenge in meditation — maybe in life. Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche tells us how we can experience them as freedom and not imprisonment.
• Degrading Our Children
Whether they get an F or an A+, most kids can't separate their grades from their self-worth. Kyo Maclear on eliminating grades so children can focus on what really matters in life. the mindful society
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