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November 2010 issue of Shambhala Sun magazine

november 2010 editorial

True Story

"I can't tell you how many times I've gotten teary-eyed at my desk," writes Deputy Editor Andrea Miller. "It's a lot, and this is why."ON THE COVER: JACK KORNFIELD, PHOTOGRAPHED BY ANDREA ROTH


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Wise Heart

Jack Kornfield's synthesis of deep Buddhist practice and modern psychological insight has made him one of the most influential spiritual teachers of our time. Steve Silberman tells the fascinating story of Kornfield's voyage from West to East and Back.

The Buddha Is Still Teaching

The true Buddha isn't limited to the body or mind of a particular person who lived long ago. He is present today, says Jack Kornfield, in teachers pointing the way to a timeless freedom.

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Mindfulness Meditation

Jack Kornfield, along with Joseph Goldstein, and Sharon Salzberg, is among the most prominent teachers of mindful meditation in America. Enjoy our extensive archive of teachings from masters of Vipassana meditation and Theravada teaching.

features


The Cosmos Wakes Up

It's been a fourteen-billion-year journey from simple hydrogen to Mahatma Gandhi. David Loy asks: Is evolution the universe waking up to itself?

Survival of the Kindest

Paul Ekman reveals Charles Darwin's real view of compassion — and it's not what you might think. Darwin's belief that altruism is a vital part of life is being confirmed by modern science.


Stand By Me

Lin Jensen opens his heart to a schoolyard bully and learns that there isn't much hope for any of us when some of us are left out.

Awake in the Wild

Whether we're in a pristine rainforest or our own backyard, nature is always available to deepen our mindfulness. Here are Mark Coleman's wilderness tips.

OTHER FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE:

Joan Sutherland takes us "Through the Dharma Gate"; Misha Becker on the mysterious kinship between the very old and the very young; Ira Sukrungruang explores what it means to be dead.



Robert Aitken's Amazing Life

A giant of Zen in the West and a pioneer of Buddhist activism, remembered by John Tarrant.


RELATED SHAMBHALASUN.COM SPOTLIGHT:

Zen Buddhism
Each of the articles presented in this Spotlight reveals a different facet of Zen's unique approach to meditation and moment-to-moment living.



barry boyce on the mindful society


Business Not As Usual

Barry investigates tea culture and connection at San Francisco's Samovar Tea Lounge, and explores the intersection of mindfulness and business with Marc Lesser.

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The Mindful Society

Here you'll find some of the finest articles on mindfulness from our extensive archives, plus Shambhala SunSpace exclusives, and more. 

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Wash Your Bowl

Marc Lesser on making your relationships, work and life more truly alive. 



reviews

Swamis, Stars & Six-Packs: Yoga's Twisted History

Andrea Miller reviews Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice, and The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America.
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Yoga and Buddhism

These classic teachings from Sarah Powers, Shiva Rea, Rodney Yee and more will help you to engage and enhance both yogic and Buddhist practice.

Books in Brief

Reviews of The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the Practice of the Wild; Thich Nhat Hanh's Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life; Fearless by Brenda Shoshanna; Adam Kahane's Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change; and The Tea Enthusiast's Handbook.



other voices

Lost

We're caught in confusion because of mistaken beliefs about who we are, says Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. But we can see our way clear by using meditation to slow down.


Another Black Mark

When Burmese Lessons author Karen Connelly loses her cool in a battle of wills with her three-year-old, she learns valuable lessons about mindful parenting.





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Caroline Adderson on Richard Outram's "Mogul's Eye"






Shambhala Sun, November 2010, Volume Nineteen, Number 2. Available on newsstands beginning in October 2010.

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The September 2011 Shambhala Sun magazine

The path of life is love — from loving ourselves, to intimate relationships, to love that embraces all beings. Our annual all-teachings issue offers Buddhist wisdom on bringing more love into your life.
Click on titles below to view full articles, excerpts, and related web exclusives. Click here to order a copy from the Shambhala Sun webstore.
this issue's editorial:


Right Here With You

Shambhala Sun deputy editor Andrea Miller on truly enjoying love and celebration, but without getting "too sugary sweet." 



features

What's Love Got to Do With It?

She’s the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll. An unwanted child. A believer in the power of love. She's also a longtime Buddhist. Andrea Miller talks to Tina Turner.


Let Me Count the Ways

John Tarrant on Falling in Love: It was his first kiss, a moment when no one was running the show and no calculations were being made. In so many ways, love is like enlightenment.
 

 

Six Ways to Make it Work

After the honeymoon, real life sets in—budgets to balance, toilet seats left up, and in-laws coming for dinner—but if we practice the six paramitas, or transcendent perfections, we discover how to always live in love. Susan Piver on Being in a Relationship.

Waking Up Alone

Everything changes; nothing lasts. In matters of the heart this can be an especially difficult truth to wake up to. What do we do when the love story ends? Karen Maezen Miller on Breaking Up.

The Buddha in the Mirror

So much can happen if we have the courage to look at ourselves honestly. Carolyn Rose Gimian on Loving Ourselves.
PLUS: Norman Fischer on Practicing Together  and Judy Lief on Loving Everyone.



other voices Showing Up For Your Life

You're jealous or angry or lonely. Don't run from the feeling, says Pema Chödrön. Stay present.


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Pema Chödrön: Her best from the Shambhala Sun



In Sync

When body and mind are synchronized, Sakyong Mipham says, we can live with grace and dignity, grounded and in harmony with the world around us.

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Sakyong Mipham: His best from the Shambhala Sun


PLUS: "The Sleeping Bird" by Mark Krieger; "Beyond Fight or Flight," by Gabriel Cohen, and a Q&A with Lisa See.


barry boyce on "the mindful society"


Building Harmony

As a teachers of architecture, Peter Schneider and Kat Vlahos seeks to instill in their students an aesthetic of simplicity, quiet, and harmony.

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MINDFUL: Living with Awareness and Compassion

This website from the publishers of the Shambhala Sun will help you bring the benefits of mindfulness practice into every aspect of your life.


reviews

Gods & Kings for Modern Times

Gaylon Ferguson reviews All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age, by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly, and To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India, by Bruce Rich.

Books in Brief

Andrea Miller reviews Donna Quesada's The Buddha in the Classroom, Emily Hunter's The Next Eco-Warriors, Leza Lowitz's Yoga Heart, and more new releases worth your while.



about a poem

Michael Sowder on James Wright’s “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”


Shambhala Sun, September 2011, Volume Twenty, Number 1.

ON THE COVER: Rose (Rosa 'Gemini') Photo by Brian Gadsby / Science Photo Library

The May 2012 Shambhala Sun magazine

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.
Click on titles below to view full articles, excerpts, and related web exclusives. Click here to order a copy of this issue.
this issue's editorial:

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.


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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.

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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


A Real Education

Barry Boyce on the latest thinking about how and why kindness, caring, empathy, and other mindful values might be brought into our children's classrooms, and the people who are leading the way for it to happen.




reviews

Thinking Beyond Fast and Slow

John Tarrant reviews Thinking Fast and Slow  by Daniel Kahneman.

Books in Brief

Andrea Miller reviews The Huston Smith Reader, Making Space by Thich Nhat Hanh, Moh Hardin's Little Book of Live, and five other new titles worth your while.



about a poem

Daniel Ladinsky on Hafiz's "Know the True Nature"




Shambhala Sun, March 2012, Volume Twenty, Number 5. 

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ON THE COVER: The waxing gibbous moon; photo by Kenneth Williamson.