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    Wake Up and Roar Paid Member

    By Mark Epstein
    Once, in the midst of a particularly poignant time in her psychotherapy, a patient of mine asked if she could tape-record her therapy sessions to listen to on her own. She did this faithfully for many weeks but then stopped abruptly, admitting rather sheepishly that the recordings seemed to lack whatever it was that she was trying to recapture from the sessions. The feelings evoked by this two-volume set of tape-recorded and transcribed questions and answers with H.W.L. Poonja, an eighty-three-year-old Indian teacher in the tradition of Ramana Maharshi, are much the same. There is a sense that something important has taken place, but readers are left with the impression that "you just had to be there." More »
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    Learning True Love Paid Member

    By Sandy Boucher
    A young woman rides a motorbike along a road in Vietnam, a box of banned pamphlets strapped behind her, bombs exploding so near that she is sure she will be killed. The same woman comes upon a platoon of U.S. soldiers preparing to destroy a village where they suspect the presence of Vietcong. Looking deep into their eyes, seeing their fear, she convinces them that no guerrillas lurk among the thatch houses. The soldiers leave. Frustrated by obstacles to efforts she and activist monk Thich Nhat Hanh have made to save the boat people fleeing Vietnam, this woman convinces her brother and friends to join her on a "fishing boat." In their small craft they ply the waters off the coast of Thailand, dodging pirates and government officials, to secretly aid the boatloads of Vietnamese refugees they encounter. More »
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    The Flower Ornament Scripture Paid Member

    By Robert A.F. Thurman
    There is no doubt in my mind that Thomas Cleary is the greatest translator of Buddhist texts from Chinese or Japanese into English of our generation, and that he will be so known by grateful Buddhist practitioners and scholars in future centuries. Single-handedly he has gone a long way toward building the beginnings of a Buddhist canon in English. More »
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    Transforming Problems into Happiness Paid Member

    By Steven D. Goodman
    Nobody likes to suffer, and that's probably why those with physical pains, mental problems, and spiritual crises are the target market for the recent outpouring of "how to overcome" books. And at first glance, Transforming Problems into Happiness might be regarded as belonging in that "how to overcome" genre. Indeed, the author tells us: Happiness and suffering are dependent upon your mind, upon your interpretation. They do not come from outside, from others. All of your happiness and all of your suffering are created by you, by your own mind. More »
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    Summer Reading 2001 Paid Member

    Ralph SteeleVipassana teacher and director of the Life Transition Institute,Santa Fe, New Mexico Living Dhammaby Ajahn Chah (Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, 1992)A spirited, open-hearted guide on the path. Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change: A Positive Psychology for the Westby Mark Epstein (Broadway Books, 2001)A meeting of the two worlds of dharma and psychotherapy. The Wings to Awakening:An Anthology from the Pali Canonby Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Buddha Dharma Education Association, 2000)A scholarly treatment of the dharma, but very accessible to the beginner Silent Rainby Ajahn Amaro (Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery)An enjoyable insight into training the mind through the Theravada Forest tradition. More »
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    'Phantom Moon' by Duncan Sheik Paid Member

    By Dimitri Ehrlich
    Phantom MoonDuncan Sheik Atlantic/Nonesuch, 2001 In 1996, when Duncan Sheik released his first album, he made success look easy. But soon there was a backlash, and when his second album failed to sell as quickly as the first, skeptics were quick to pronounce him a one-hit wonder. Some of his strengths wotked against him: The very fact that radio stations had embraced his first single, "Barely Breathing," with such runaway enthusiasm undercut the idea that he might be considered a serious songwriter. Then there was the matter of his movie-star good looks. When you're working in Bob Dylan's territory, handsomeness can erode credibility faster than an endorsement for Kmarr. More »