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Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
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Being Black has gained an enthusiastic following in African American and Zen communities. Angel Kyodo Williams shows black Americans how to develop a "warrior-spirit" of truth and responsibility that can lead to happiness and personal transformation. The... (read more)
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Learning True Love: How I Learned to Practice Social Change in Vietnam Learning True Love: How I Learned to Practice Social Change in Vietnam
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Learning True Love is a unique autobiography that tells the gripping story of Sr. Chan Khong, who has for more than four decades worked closely with Thich Nhat Hanh. It reflects her spiritual growth against the backdrop of a war-torn Vietnam, and offers... (read more)
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Coming Back To Life : Practices To Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (98 Edition) Coming Back To Life : Practices To Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (98 Edition)
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Many of us feel called to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth. Noted spiritual and environmental thinkers Joanna Macy and Molly... (read more)
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Letters from Burma Letters from Burma
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Human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to six years' house arrest in Rangoon in 1989 by the ruling military junta SLORC. She paints a vivid, poignant yet optimistic picture of her native... (read more)
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Altars in the Street: A Courageous Memoir of Community and Spiritual Awakening Altars in the Street: A Courageous Memoir of Community and Spiritual Awakening
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Confronting an urban nightmare of drugs, violence, and despair, a leading American Buddhist tests her faith in non-violence by putting spirituality to work where it really counts--in the community.... (read more)
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Fruitful Darkness : a Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom (93 Edition) Fruitful Darkness : a Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom (93 Edition)
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Inner Revolution Inner Revolution
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The New York Times calls him "America's number one Buddhist." He is the co-founder of Tibet House New York, was the first American Tibetan Buddhist monk, and has shared a thirty-five-year friendship with the Dalai Lama. Now, Robert Thurman presents his... (read more)
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Engaged Buddhism in the West Engaged Buddhism in the West
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Engaged Buddhism in the West illuminates the evolution of this newest chapter in the Buddhist tradition--including its history, leadership, and teachings--and addresses issues such as violence and peace, race and gender, homelessness and AIDS.... (read more)
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Search for a Nonviolent Future 2ND Edition Search for a Nonviolent Future 2ND Edition
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Beginning with the achievements of Mahatma Gandhi, and following the legacy of nonviolence through the struggles against Nazism in Europe, racism in America, oppression in China and Latin America, and ethnic conflicts in Africa and Bosnia, Michael Nagler... (read more)
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Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist
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