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BRINGING MEDITATION TO LIFE

Zen teacher Claude AnShin Thomas shares his experiences and insights into how Zen teachings and practice can move off the meditation cushion and into everything we do, transforming all aspects of our lives.

AT HELL’S GATE

“Written with relentless courage and utter compassion, this account if violence and transformation is one of the most amazing and wonderful stories I’ve ever read.”

Michael Herr, Vietnam war correspondent, screenwriter, and author of Dispatches

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Buddhism without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor	*Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing* by Charles Johnson	*The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction* by Tim O'Brien	*Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic* by James Gilligan

The Dhammapada by Eknath Easwaran	*The Cloud of Unknowing* by William Johnston, ed.	*Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character* by Jonathan Shay	*On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society* by Dave Grossman

How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America by Rick Fields	*The Gnostic Gospels* by Elaine Pagels	*A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam* by Neil Sheehan	*War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning* by Chris Hedges

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