Magazine Personal Reflections

From: Aging as a Spiritual Practice

Once, when I was about 12, my father came into my room holding a book. He was in his forties at the time. “I want to show you something,” he said. The book was an autobiography of the poet Robert Graves. On the front cover was a photograph of Graves as a young man: black-haired, […]

By Lewis Richmond

Spring 2012

Magazine Teachings

Hell is Inevitable

In Japan, people will often refer to “the paradise of the Pure Land,” leading to the belief that paradise and the Pure Land are one and the same, but I don’t think this is the case. The Pure Land is not paradise. Rather, paradise and hell – its opposite – refer to this world in […]

By Hiroyuki Itsuki

Spring 2001

Magazine Teachings

Roshi Meets Rhino

Zen and the Art of Transmission

By Janwillem van de Wetering

Spring 1993