Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi PART ONE Beyond Denial: Seeing Things as They Really Are IT'S ALL HAPPENING TO ALL OF US, ALL OF THE TIME 3 Sylvia Boorstein DHARMA 8 Jon Kabat-Zinn LOOKING DEEPLY AT DESPAIR 13 His Holiness the Dalai Lama TRANSIENCY 16 Shunryu Suzuki HARD TIMES, SIMPLE TIMES 19 Norman Fischer COMING BACK TO WHERE WE ARE 28 Ezra Bay da vi Contents PART TWO Tools for a Mindful Life WAKING UP TO YOUR WORLD 41 Pema Chodron HEALING PAIN AND DRESSING WOUNDS 48 Thick Nhat Hanh MLNDFULNESS AND COMPASSION! TOOLS FOR TRANSFORMING SUFFERING INTO JOY 64 Phillip Moffitt How WILL I USE THIS DAY? 75 Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche THE PRACTICE OF LOVING-KINDNESS FOR ALL 79 Joseph Goldstein PART THREE Transforming Difficulty into Awakening ERRING AND ERRING, WE WALK THE UNERRING PATH 89 The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche WHAT LIES BEYOND BLAME 100 Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche WHEN THINGS FALL APART: THE EIGHT WORLDLY DHARMAS 111 Pema Chodron WHAT SUFFERING TEACHES 117 Polly Young-Eisendrath Contents vii PART FOUR Facing Fear and Other Strong Emotions HAVE COURAGE AND A SENSE OF HUMOR 129 Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche FAITH: TRUSTING YOUR OWN DEEPEST EXPERIENCE 137 Sharon Salzberg THE TRANSFORMATION OF DESIRE INTO ABUNDANCE 150 Jack Kornfield SMILE AT FEAR 163 Carolyn Rose Gimian GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF STRESS 170 John Daido Loori FEARLESS SIMPLICITY 176 Tsoknyi Rinpoche PART FIVE Skillful Means: Money, Work, and Family AT TIMES OF RISK AND STRESS, CULTIVATE STILLNESS 185 Michael Carroll How TO HELP YOUR FAMILY 190 Judy Lief LACK OF MONEY 195 David Loy OPTIMISM, PESSIMISM, AND NAIVETE 201 Matthieu Ricard vxii Contents ACTING EFFECTIVELY IN A WORLD OF CHAOS AND CHANGE 212 James Gimian and Barry Boyce BE WHAT YOU NEED TO BE 218 Thick Nhat Hank PART SIX True Happiness A SIMPLE SENSE OF DELIGHT 227 Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche IT WOULD BE A PITY TO WASTE A GOOD CRISIS 231 John Tarrant GROUNDED IMPROVISATION 240 Joan Sutherland THE NATURAL STATE OF HAPPINESS 247 Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche PUTTING OTHERS IN THE CENTER 255 Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche How TO RULE 260 Chbgyam Trungpa Rinpoche Contributors 269 Credits 277.