Buddhism with a Western Face
Will Western adaptation of the dharma challenge contemporary culture or accommodate it?
Critique
The Self in Self-Help Literature
In New York Magazine‘s new self-help issue, journalist Kathryn Schulz examines how we can improve ourselves and why it’s so damn hard. You might know you shouldn’t watch the next episode of that serial television show…
Spiritual Esperanto
A Response to "The Dalai Lama as a Brand"
Zen Sinners, Zen Saints: Tricycle Responds
The longtime Zen practitioner and writer Stuart Lachs recently criticized Tricycle for what he considers the magazine’s participation in the long tradition of Zen hagiography (see “When the Saints Go Marching In”). To support his argument,…
Zen and the art of misusing the word Zen
In “Alan Arkin Explains the Zen of Martin Scorsese,” a recent post on Speakeasy (a Wall Street Journal blog) one commenter took umbrage with the post’s title, writing: “Would you please stop abusing the word Zen?”…
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