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MeditationMagazine | Special Section
The Body After Death
Methods of caring for the body after death vary from culture to culture. What follows are some suggestions that come from my experience as a Buddhist and a caregiver of dying people. IMMEDIATELY AFTER DEATH Keep…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Death: As Common As Life
At least half the organic matter you see on a walk in the forest is dead: dead leaves, deadwood, dead weeds, insect carcasses, maybe even the stinking corpse of some higher animal if you’re lucky. There…
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
The Long Shadow Of Good Intentions
Dale Borglum, director of the Living/Dying Project, explores the pitfalls of conscious work with the dying
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Allen Ginsberg
Text by Gelek Rinpoche with drawings by George Condo
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
The Crown Exit
Phowa Teachings in Bodh Gaya
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
The Great Matter of Life and Death
Introduction, Like A Hair Pulled Out Of Butter, Our Real Home, What Is Death?
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Standing Up In Silence
On the Death of Zen Teacher Dainin Katagiri Roshi
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Tonglen: The Practice of Giving and Receiving
In the Tonglen practice of giving and receiving, we take on, through compassion, all the various mental and physical sufferings of all beings; their fear, frustration, pain, anger, guilt, bitterness, doubt, and rage, and we give…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Village Women
A Roundtable
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
What Is Death?
Why we've got nothing to lose by preparing for death
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
That Body Is This Body
That Body Is This Body If [a monk] were to see a corpse cast away in a charnel ground, picked at by crows, vultures, and hawks, by dogs, hyenas, and various other creatures . . .…
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Fall 1997
RE: How Do You Want to Die?
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
What Does The Body Dream At Rest?
If the heat of one body restingEquals seventy lotus flowersWhat does the body dream at rest? The boy fell into the sea and it swept him awaySaid those who watched him tumble off the cliff;Of…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Dissolving Into Blue Sky
My mother planned to die at home. But she died in the hospital, near her home in Maine, because m that moment, when her growing shortness of breath so frightened and unnerved her, the hospital was…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Our Real Home
Ajaan Chah teaches us to let go of externals, and watch as inner clarity and wakefulness arise.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Opening the Sky Door
A photo essay by Thomas Kelly on the Tibetan ritual of offering the dead to the living
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Living Organs & Dying Bodies
Casey Frank, a Zen student and attorney working in bioethics, maps out the trials of this terrain.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s Last Teaching
“Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of…
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
In Light Of Death
An interview with Rick Fields on living with cancer
Resource Guide
Buddhist hospices, educational programs, books, tapes, and videos
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Death Awareness
On each branch of the trees in my garden Hang clusters of fruit, swelling and ripe. In the end, not one piece will remain. My mind turns to thoughts of my death. —Seventh Dalai Lama Many…
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Like a Hair Pulled Out of Butter
Teachings on the Great Matter by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Who is About to Die?
Zen Death PoemsDokyo Etan, Kozan Ichikyo, Nampo Jomyo, Rankei Doryu, Shumpo Soki, Zoso Royo, and Keido
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Mindfulness Of Death
You should train yourself: Even though I may be sick in body, my mind will be free of sickness. That’s how you should train yourself. . . . And how is one sick in body…
Departments
Letter to the Editor
Will the Real Buddhist Please . . . I was troubled by the implications of the interview with Robert Thurman and Stephen Batchelor (Tricycle, Summer, 1997). Batchelor is obviously taking the Buddha’s words to heart by…
In the News Fall 1997
Change Your Mind Day 1997 Longtime practitioners, meditators-for-a-day, dharma bums, and dog walkers turned out for Tricycle’s fourth annual Change Your Mind Day on May 31. The afternoon of free, informal, introductory instruction is organized each…
Death Becomes Us
Imagine that a great sage arrives in the West to give the secret teachings on living and dying. Thousands of people pack the stadium. The master says: “We are born. We die. The sooner you understand…
