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MeditationMagazine | Special Section
One Fat Buddha
Under the vast robe of liberation, a practitioner confronts her body.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Finding Sense in Sensation
S. N. Goenka speaks to Tricycle about the crucial role of the body in vipassana practice.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Living from the Inside Out
Through yoga practice, Anne Cushman moves from watching her breath to being it.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Remembering How to Walk
John House finds his feet in walking meditation.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Losing Our Bodies, Losing Our Minds
When did we leave our bodies—and how do we come back?
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
What Body?
Seventh-century Buddhist sage Shantideva on the body as illusion.
The Body: Vehicle for Awakening
They awaken, always wide awake: Gotama’s disciples, whose mindfulness, both day and night, is constantly immersed in the body. —Dhammapada, 299 In the ultimate gesture of presence, the Buddha, fighting off Mara’s armies of temptation, reached…
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Yoga For Meditators
Buddhist practitioner and yoga teacher Cyndi Lee offers a five-minute yoga regimen to enhance meditation practice.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
The Other Side of Appearance
An interview with Antony Gormley
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
On Having No Head
Losing a head isn't as bad as you might think.
Features
At the Crossroads
An interview with Stephen Batchelor
Modern Buddhism: So New, So Familiar
Modern Buddhism—with its roots in colonial Asia—claims to return to the essence of the Buddha’s teachings. Has a new sect emerged?
Down Home Dharma
Jesus may be Lord and Elvis still King, but the Dharma has come to Dixie to stay. Jeff Wilson travels the new frontier, where East meets South.
Lost Stories
Sallie Jiko Tisdale recovers a women’s lineage of Buddhist ancestors.
Leavening Spirit
When I asked my Zen teacher, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, if he had any advice for working in the kitchen, he said, “When you wash the rice, wash the rice. When you cut the carrots, cut the…
Contributors Fall 2002
Donald Lopez is Carl W. Belser Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. Author or editor of some twenty books, including Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism Under Colonialism and…
Books in Brief Fall 2002
Present Fresh Wakefulness: A Meditation Manual on Nonconceptual WisdomChokyi Nyima RinpocheBoudhanath: Rangjung Yeshe, 2002192 pp.; $20.00 (paper) Revered abbot, author, and Tibetan meditation master Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche presents what he considers to be the indispensable principles…
Zoo-logical Zen
In Robert Aitken Roshi's forthcoming book, Zen Master Raven offers shrewd advice to his animal sangha.
‘Pay Attention for Goodness’ Sake by Sylvia Boorstein
Pay Attention, for Goodness’ SakePracticing the Perfections of the Heart: The Buddhist Path of KindnessSylvia BoorsteinNew York: Ballantine Books, 2002282 pp.; $24.95 (cloth) “A rose is a rose is a rose.” This well-known poem by Gertrude…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Socrates’ Friend
Much as I love to grow rosy-cheeked apples and long stripes of pale green butter lettuce, I equally welcome the presence of poisonous weeds and flowers in the garden. No paradise is complete without the murmur…
Spiritual Friends
Is spirituality the best thing that can happen to your mate? Think again. Mariana Caplan on the unfortunate truths of spiritual boyfriends.
MeditationMagazine | Parting Words
Easy Practice
Honen’s “One-Page Document”: In China and Japan, many learned masters have taught that the nembutsu is to meditate deeply on Buddha. But that is not my understanding. Nembutsu is not meditation, nor does it come from…
Tradition in Transformation
For all the opinions put forth about what form Buddhist teachings should take, Western Buddhism continues to unfold in unpredictable ways. The process of assimilation will no doubt be a long one, measured in centuries rather…
“The Monk’s Wife” by Ruth M. Tabrah
The Monk’s Wife:A Novel About EshinniRuth M. TabrahHonolulu: Buddhist Study Center Press, 2001257 pp.; $15.00 (paper) Set in thirteenth-century Japan, Ruth Tabrah’s historical novel The Monk’s Wife tells the story of Eshinni, wife of Shinran (1173—1262),…
Thinking Like a Mountain
John Suiter reflects upon Gary Snyder's poetic hermitage within the Cascades of Washington State.
Reclaiming Faith
An interview with Vipassana teacher Sharon Salzberg and an excerpt from her new book, Faith.
MeditationMagazine | On Parenting
The Dust Beyond the Cushion
From dishes to dusting, from window-washing to bed-making, housekeeping provides an everyday opportunity for practice.
Philip Whalen (1923-2002)
Philip Whalen, Zen priest, abbot of San Francisco’s Hartford Street Zen Center, and Beat poet, died on June 26, 2002, at the age of seventy-eight, after a prolonged illness. Born in Portland, Oregon in 1923, Whalen…
Letters to the Editor Fall 2002
Kudos and Condemnation Thank you to Neta Golan (“Peace Warrior in the West Bank”) for shedding light on the reality of the situation in the West Bank. Her immense courage in providing an interview with Tricycle…
How to Raise an Ox” by Francis Dojun Cook
How to Raise an Ox:Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen’s ShobogenzoFrancis Dojun CookForeword by Taizan Maezumi RoshiBoston: Wisdom Publications, 2002180pp.; $16.95 (paper) “The Zen of Dogen is the Zen of practice,” Francis Dojun Cook tells…
Closing the Circle
Marc Peter Keane’s contemplations on the Japanese garden offer insights for the “philosophical gardener (or the gardening philosopher).”
At the Crossroads
An interview with Stephen Batchelor
Buddhism in Russia
Sergei Noskov became acquainted with Buddhism as a child, when he was captivated by the beauty of Buryat Buddhist thangkas and the ritual figurines in his family’s Leningrad apartment.
“Shin Buddhism” by Taitetsu Unno
Shin Buddhism:Bits of Rubble Turn to GoldTaitetsu UnnoNew York: Doubleday, 2002224 pp.; $12.95 (paper) Imagine entering a spiritual bookstore in Tokyo and encountering a book with the title Awakening Your Inner Francis: How to Become a…
Little “Aha!”s
Spiritual guru Ram Dass quotes his latest book, One-Liners.
Events: Change Your Mind Day, 2002
With a message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
Why Sit?
Q & A with Lama Surya Das
Columns
On Conferences: The Second Gethsemani Encounter
Zoketsu Norman Ficher chronicles the second international meeting of Christian and Buddhist contemplatives.