📗 Libro en inglés THE BEST BUDDHIST WRITING 2004

Enthusiasts of spirituality will find strong evidence of Buddhism''s growing influence on modern Western culture in THE BEST BUDDHIST WRITING 2004. Melvin McLeod, editor-in-chief of Shambhala Sun magazine, has gathered together 40 pieces that express a Buddhist take on an ever-changing and challenging world. A stimulating selection of wildly different writers, from counselors and psychologists to punk rockers, to the Dalai Lama himself, contribute absorbing essays that teach, challenge, and reassure. Essays address subjects such as meditation, the moment of enlightenment, retreats, study, zazen, and why one writer doesn''t want to kill Bambi anymore. These essays convey many of the essential Buddhist truths, among them the value of the ordinary experience in life and the importance of "letting go." With its wide range of viewpoints and styles, this collection instructs as well as inspires, so that readers with any level of interest or expertise in Buddhist practice and thinking can broaden their horizons.