Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Lost Charms
Letting go of what you love isn't easy.
Noelle Oxenhandler
Noelle Oxenhandler began Buddhist practice in 1970. She lives in Northern California, where
she teaches creative nonfiction at Sonoma State University. She is the author of three nonfiction books, and her essays have appeared in many national and literary magazines.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Ah, But the Breezes . . .
Noelle Oxenhandler offers huge praise for the small word "but."
Where Does it End?
Noelle Oxenhandler reflects on coming into practice along the trickster path.
‘Dakini’s Warm Breath’ by Judith Simmer-Brown
Dakini’s Warm Breath The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism Judith Simmer-Brown Shambhala Publications: Boston, 2001 352 pp.; $29.95 (cloth) If you took the Virgin Mary in all her apparitions—from the carpenter’s gentle wife through the radiant…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
A Streetcar in Your Stomach
Anger was carefully modulated in my family. As a small child, my supreme act of rage was to hurl my father’s toothbrush to the bottom of the carpeted stairs. For a long time, looking back, I…
Twirling a Flower
The Question of Form
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Buddha’s Robe
I am sewing my first rakusu—the rectangular bib-like garment that is worn by Zen Buddhists. It is formally conferred during jukai, the ceremony of taking refuge in the Buddha and receiving the precepts. Unlike many people…
Podcasts
Everything Is Buddha
Using the teachings of Suzuki Roshi as her guide, Noelle Oxenhandler explores what it means for things to be more than just things.
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