The Best Buddhist Writing 2010 - Melvin McLeod [130]
DANIEL ASA ROSE has won an O. Henry Award, two PEN Fiction Awards, and an NEA Fellowship. He is the editor of the international literary magazine The Reading Room and has written for the New Yorker, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, and other national publications. Rose’s first novel, Flipping for It, was a black comedy about divorce from the man’s point of view and a New York Times New and Noteworthy Paperback. His most recent novel, Larry’s Kidney, is about how he found himself in China with his cousin and his cousin’s mail-order bride, illegally trying to arrange a life-saving transplant.
DANIEL DOEN SILBERBERG teaches and directs his own Zen group, Lost Coin, which has students throughout the U.S. and Europe. He received a BA in English with an emphasis in Eastern literature and an MA and PhD in psychology. He has had a successful career as a musician and has spent twenty-five years as a psychotherapist, coach, and consultant in New York and Salt Lake City.
STEVE SILBERMAN’S articles on science, literature, music, and Buddhism have appeared in Wired, the New Yorker, the Shambhala Sun, GQ, and other national publications. Silberman is writing a book on neurodiversity and lives with his husband, Keith, in San Francisco.
JOAN SUTHERLAND is the founder of The Open Source, a network of practice communities emphasizing the confluence of Zen koans, creativity, and companionship. Before becoming a Zen teacher, she worked as a scholar and teacher in the field of archaeomythology, and for nonprofit organizations in the feminist antiviolence and environmental movements. Sutherland is interested in what becomes possible when ancient methods of meditation and inquiry are brought into contemporary Western lives.
JOHN TARRANT, ROSHI, is the director of the Pacific Zen Institute. He has a PhD in psychology and is the author of Bring Me the Rhinoceros and The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life. He also teaches at the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine at Duke University Medical School. Tarrant’s work is centered on the transformation of consciousness and he is considered one of the foremost koan teachers in the United States.
HANNAH TENNANT-MOORE lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is at work on a book of essays about modern women in love. She received her MFA in nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared in the Shambhala Sun, Tricycle, The Best Buddhist Writing 2008, and elsewhere.
ANAM THUBTEN RINPOCHE was born in Tibet and recognized as an incarnate lama (tulku) when he was a young boy. He has been teaching in the West since the 1990s and serves as the main dharma teacher for the Dharmata Foundation, based in Point Richmond, California. He is a Buddhist scholar and writer whose first book in English is No Self, No Problem, excerpted here. Anam Thubten’s teachings mainly draw from the Prajnaparamita, the timeless nonconceptual wisdom of Buddha. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
JAIMAL YOGIS is an award-winning journalist and author who spends a good deal of his spare time surfing and traveling the globe. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and his work has been published in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Surfer’s Journal, Beliefnet, and elsewhere. His first book, the memoir Saltwater Buddha, excerpted here, is the subject of a forthcoming documentary. He is now working on his second book.
Credits
Diane Ackerman, “Dawn Light.” From Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day by Diane Ackerman. © 2009 by Diane Ackerman. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Jan Chozen Bays, “Mindful Eating.”