Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Debacle
On the road with Thich Nhat Hanh in the early 1980s.
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper is Tricycle's features editor.
The Authentic Life
A conversation with Lewis Richmond
What the Buddha Taught?
People have always made sense of the present through understanding the past. Usually, we arrived at the past through a blend of myth, legend, spoken accounts of actual events, and perhaps written records. While historical study…
The Likably Unlikely Monk
The Cambodian monk Maha Ghosananda was a world-famous humanitarian; he was also quite the character. Two years after Maha Ghosananda’s death, Andrew Cooper reflects on a friendship that was sometimes dizzying but always dear.
The Big Sit
Tricycle’s 90-day Zen Meditation Challenge
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Recalling Nichidatsu Fujii
In 1982, I was one of a small group of Zen students who were invited to an audience with Nichidatsu Fujii. Guruji, as he was affectionately known, was making a short visit to Los Angeles on…
Spirit in Sport
When hungry, eat; when tired, sleep. — Zen Proverb They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. — Willie Mays Years ago, I sat on the floor across a…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | My View
The Contenders
A ritual for Marlon Brando
Losing Our Religion
Have Westerners created a new and viable form of Buddhism, or has something been lost in translation? Berkeley professor Robert Sharf argues that with our emphasis on individual experience and meditation, we risk cutting ourselves off…
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