Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear is a visual arts writer and author of two novels, <em>Stray Love</em> and <em>The Letter Opener</em>. She lives in Toronto.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Tara Bennett-Goleman

Tara Bennett-Goleman is a psychotherapist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Emotional Alchemy who teaches workshops internationally with her husband, Daniel Goleman. She draws on her studies with Buddhist masters, including Sayadaw U Pandita, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, and Adeu Rinpoche, in her new book, Mind Whispering: A New Map to Freedom from Self-Defeating Emotional Habits, excerpted in this issue. The book weaves together Eastern and Western approaches to the mind, the science of habit change, methods from cognitive therapy, and the wisdom teachings that horses whisper to us.

Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., is the author of <i>Emotional Intelligence</i> and <i>Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships</i>. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reports on the brain and behavioral sciences for <i>The New York Times</i>.

Susan Murphy

Susan Murphy

Susan Murphy Roshi is the founding teacher of Zen Open Circle in Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Upside Down Zen and Minding the Earth, Mending the World.

Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi

Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi

Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat is the Abbot of the Zen Studies Society.

Sekkei Harada Roshi

Sekkei Harada Roshi is abbot of Hosshinji, a Soto Zen monastery in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

John Daido Loori

John Daido Loori

John Daido Loori, Roshi (1939-2009) was the founder and director of the Mountains and Rivers Order and abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York.