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Facing Loss
An introduction to the special section
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
An Interview with Gehlek Rimpoche
Gehlek Rimpoche talks about loss, letting go, and moving on.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
A Secret Space
Leaving her lover behind, Barbara Hurd finds refuge in the vastness of the Indian desert.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
A Splinter of Love
Are grief and mourning the most precious proofs of love?
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Lost Charms
Letting go of what you love isn't easy.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Elegy for Everything
When her unborn son is diagnosed with Down’s syndrome, Martha Beck learns that when we have everything to lose, we also have everything to gain.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Practicing With Loss
Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn.
CultureMagazine | Special Section
On the Cremation of Chogyam Trungpa, Vidyadhara
A poem by Allen Ginsberg
Features
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Under The Lens: An American Zen Community In Crisis
Anne Cushman bears witness to a sangha fractured by its teacher’s flaws.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
When the World Is Perfect
A new mother struggles with self-sacrifice.
Eating Just The Right Amount
The ancient Japanese mealtime art of oryoki reveals the patterns and sticking points of our minds.
Dust of Snow: Awakening to Conversation
In a world of transience, is conservation just another form of attachment?
Departments
Letters to the Editor Fall 2003
Attachment to PeaceThank you for the concise interviews in “Peace: How Realistic Is It?” [Summer 2003]. Unfortunately, like most interviews about peace in the Buddhist press, they were steeped in shopworn antiwar rhetoric. However hard you…
Brave New Buddhists
Philosopher and trenchant social critic Aldous Huxley is best known for his ground breaking novel Brave New World. He is far less known for the extent to which he was influenced by the teachings of the…
Contributors Fall 2003
Dana Sawyer writes on author Aldous Huxley’s Buddhist proclivities in “Aldous Huxley’s Truth Beyond Tradition”. Sawyer tells us: “I first became interested in Buddhism and Hinduism in 1969, after a philosophy professor recommended that I read…
Alduous Huxley’s Truth Beyond Tradition
Author Aldous Huxley played an early and instrumental role in popularizing buddhism in the west. but what was his view of buddhism? and what does it offer buddhists today? Dana Sawyer reports.
IdeasMagazine | Sangha Spotlight
Buddhism on the Other West Coast
"Come as you are” to the last frontier of American Buddhism.
Winged Messenger
Dragonflies stitch together the visible and invisible realms
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Practical Pilgrim
Rajgir: A Peak Experience
Walk in the Buddha’s footsteps in the ancient Indian city of Rajgir.
MeditationMagazine | On Location
Deeper Than Skin
Monks and gangsters come together to receive the blessings of a spiritual prophylaxis: Buddhist tattoos.
The Bhikkhu Diet
Get the body of a bhikkhu—or your alms back.
MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
Looking for Meaning
A reader from Woodstock, New York, writes: “Is it possible to have a meaningful meditation practice in the absence of a living teacher?”
The 10th Annual Change Your Mind Day
Inside a prison and on a footbridge, in grassy parks and under tarps, 2003 marked the most successful Change Your Mind Day ever. On the afternoon of June 7, residents of thirty-eight cities (including, this year,…
Coffinman
How to wash and dress a Buddhist corpse
Intersections
Jews for Jesus and the Buddhadharma
Try This At Home
Experiments to unlock the wonder of everyday life
Buddha Buzz Fall 2003
Give me a Brake!According to Tom and Ray Magliozzi (also known as “Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers”) of NPR’s Car Talk, winter visitors to the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, Massachusetts should not set their…
Under the Pavement
Barbara Gates learns to use a jackhammer to uncover the neglected realms of the self.
Clouding
Have you ever tried to catch a cloud?
Heaven in a Bowl
Stirring a pot of chili, Prabu Vasan learns an unexpected lesson in what it means to feed the soul.
Questionnaire
A poem by Andrew Schelling
The Eclectic Cleric
Stephen Batchelor interviews Don Cupitt
The Ghost of Eden
Zen and Poetry
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Right to Ask Questions
Should we take the Buddha at his word? Larry Rosenberg encourages us to put the teachings to the test.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Calm Abiding
Travel the river of the mind to the vast ocean.
Shouts and Whispers
The next generation of American Buddhism steps up—and looks back.
Remaking Ourselves, Remaking the World
Gross National Suffering and the economics of awakening
Shakyamuni and the Shrinks
Two new titles for the couch and the cushion
Books in Brief Fall 2003
In these uncertain times, there is a call for teachings that are grounded in tradition yet relevant to daily life. Happily, a number of experienced teachers are responding. The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings…
Winter Dusk at a Remote Temple
Approaching year’s end,east of the riverthe weather turns cold. At the wilderness temple,dusk spreadsto river and sky. No wine I knowcan meltthis night. I follow a monk,who shutsthe gate early. Lamplit wallsholdstunted shadows. Roof tilesbearing snowcreak…