Bringing Buddha to the West
GI Joe, the country’s first action hero doll, has been around since 1964. Created by the toy company Hasbro, GI Joe was their answer to the overwhelming success of the Barbie doll, who had debuted…
Afterword
Infinite Winter
When things are running smoothly, the refrigerator is very much like some people’s idea of the perfect Zen student. It is calm, cool, and quiet, and it possesses its own inner light. Actually, the refrigerator is…
View of an Auspicious Day
How to rest in the present moment
The Koans of Yogi Berra
Discovered inside a catcher’s mitt in the year 2087 by archaeologists while excavating rubble in the abandoned Yankee Stadium in the Bronx: KOAN 1: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”Commentary: Yogi…
The Way
In a coda to Sitting: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation, Diana St. Ruth describes the fruits of freedom.
The Spell-Check Sutra
When “Trungpa” comes up “turnip,” and your “sangha” becomes “sangria,” you know you’re in cyberspace. A secular computer spell-check program, when fed Buddhist words, suggested some English alternatives, offered here with dharma definitions of their own.…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Afterword
Full Moons and Dirty Diapers
My infant daughter Jordan doesn’t let me sit zazen. All day, she conspires with her older sister Erin so that when the toddler naps, the infant is awake and when the infant naps, the toddler is…
“Nothing Is Final Forever
This vignette is excerpted from A Journey with Elsa Cloud, just published by Books & Co./Turtle Point Press. The story opens with a telephone call to the narrator from her estranged daughter in India who, having…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Afterword
Silent Retreat
I felt like I had embarked on a dangerous adventure. I had the sense of doing something scary that I didn’t fully understand, something that could turn out to be more than I could handle. It…
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