On Dignity
What is “self-worth” in a system that denies the permanence of any self?
Sallie Jiko Tisdale
Sallie Jiko Tisdale is a lay dharma teacher at Dharma Rain Zen Center, and a dharma heir of Kyogen Carlson. She is the author of Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying and The Lie About the Truck: Survivor, Reality TV, and the Endless Gaze.
Self-Care for Future Corpses
"Namaste. You're dead." (Plus: 7 habits of highly effective Buddhists.)
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
As If There Is Nothing to Lose
How giving comes from gratitude.
Washing Out Emptiness
In our own impermanent bodies, we face our deepest fears and aversions. Drawing on Dogen's writings and her personal experience as a nurse, Sallie Tisdale challenges us not to look away, but to practice in this…
Beloved Community
What can a Zen priest learn from a fundamentalist theologian? A Buddhist community takes interfaith dialogue beyond common ground with their evangelical Christian neighbors.
Blazing a Trail
Japanese nun Eshun (1362–ca. 1430), the Irresistible One
Lost Stories
Sallie Jiko Tisdale recovers a women’s lineage of Buddhist ancestors.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Zen and Then
A Zen priest looks at the growing pains of Zen after a half-century of evolution in the West.
Nothing Special: The Buddhist Sex Quandary
There is sex and then there is sexuality. Sallie Tisdale explores the difference.
Podcasts
What Reality TV Can Teach Us About Surviving Ourselves
In this episode of Tricycle Talks, James Shaheen sits down with Zen teacher and writer Sallie Tisdale to discuss the dharma lessons of the award-winning reality TV show Survivor.
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