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MeditationMagazine | Special Section
The Pleasure Paradox
Daniel Gilbert explains why we aren't as happy as we think we should be.
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Happiness in Verse
Three Poems by Jane Hirshfield
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
What Is True Happiness?
Tricycle speaks with scholar B. Alan Wallace about the quintessential pursuit.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
The Happiness Craze
Why we aren't happy and how Buddhism can help.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Passing It On
From father to son
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Conceptions of Happiness
Happiness is awakening to the question “Who is happy, who is unhappy, who lives, and who dies?” True happiness is uncaused, arising from the very nature of being itself. We seek happiness only when we are…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Evolution of Happiness
On the Buddha's steps to Nirvana
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
The Wisdom Of Frogs
Clark Strand discovers bodhisattvas in his own backyard.
Departments
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice To Say…
Valuable advice from the late Thai master Phra Ajaan Dune Atulo, known to his students as Luang Pu
Buns Or Duchies?
Awareness without fanfare
The Point of Contact
Vipassana teacher Shinzen Young discusses pain, procrastination, and enlightenment for everyone.
TeachingsMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
Removing the Thorn
Andrew Olendzki reveals the Buddha's prescription for peace on earth.
Live A Little
From the new book The Real Meaning of Life, a collection of posts from an online forum responding to the question, “What is the meaning of life?”
MeditationMagazine | Interview
Awareness Itself
Lama Surya Das speaks with His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa about the deceptively simple practice of not doing anything at all.
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Pushing the Limits
Thanissaro Bhikkhu on desire, imagination, and the Buddhist path
Yoda-Dharma
Looking into pop Buddhism
Settle for the Stereo?
We’ve all heard that happiness can’t be bought, but how many of us live as if this were really true? As contributing editor Joan Duncan Oliver reports in her opener to this issue’s special section (“The…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Essay
Sudden Awakening
Recently unearthed Chinese texts provide new inspiration in the search for enlightenment here and now.
Do You Have Faith?
Take the Scale of Doubt Quiz and find out!
Contributors Fall 2005
Contributing editor Joan Duncan Oliver has spent the past year immersed in the subject of happiness, first to write a book—Happiness: How to Find It and Keep It—and then to edit a special section for this…
A Blessing For Eddie J.
An entry from an online journal by Jotipalo Bhikkhu on his walking pilgrimage from New Orleans to the Arrow River Forest Hermitage in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Jotipalo, a Buddhist monk, and fellow pilgrim Austin Stewart find…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Relationships
Moving Target
As a meditator, have you ever practiced eating mindfully—let’s say a salad or a baked potato? Perhaps, then, as you tried to stay in touch with each bite, each chew, each subtle flavor of potato, butter,…
The Day After You Die
Dilgo Khyentse, commenting on a classic verse by the twelfth-century Indian yogi, Padampa Sangye, advises us on what to do with our bodies.
Gross Anatomy
Using human cadavers as educational art—and tools for awakening.
Give and Take: The Pleasures of Pain
Andrew Cooper chats with Zen priest and pain counselor Darlene Cohen.
Life or Death
Media watchdog David Edwards spurs Buddhists to action
Parting Words Fall 2005
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Breath and the Body
Seven yoga postures to invigorate the meditative mind from Frank Jude Boccio.
Insights & Outtakes Fall 2005
I’LL DRINK TO THAT Beer connoisseurs may be familiar with Singha, one the most popular beers in Thailand. Less well known is that the singha is a venerable Thai Buddhist symbol: a sort of combination lion…
Erotic Poetry by the Sixth Dalai Lama
A new translation unveils the passion and song of this seventeenth-century Dalai Lama.
Books In Brief Fall 2005
The DhammapadaGil Fronsdal,translatorBoston: Shambhala Publications, 2005, 176 pp.; $18.95 (cloth) In his highly praised new translation of this most essential Buddhist text, Gil Fronsdal brings to bear his considerable experience both as a scholar and a…
Letters to the Editor Fall 2005
HANKIES OR KLEENEX?While I agree with Susan Moon’s sentiments regarding joyful practice and the need to live by example, “Stop Shopping” (Summer 2005) left me with the lingering question: How and where do we find hope?…
Medieval Woman
Words of a pioneer
Jizos For Peace
A grassroots memorial on the sixtieth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Modest Master
Memories of the late Tulku Urgyen (1920-1996).
Pilgrim of Love
Jilted lover Jeremy Lazell chases his ex from London to Jaipur and finds himself in a Vipassana retreat.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Profile
God Is In the Zendo
A profile of Father Robert Kennedy Roshi, a Catholic priest and Zen teacher
The Natural: Ruth Denison
Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison Sandy Boucher Boston: Beacon Press, 2005 264 pp.; $25.95 (cloth) Though its roots shoot back to the nineteenth century and earlier, dharma practice in the…
An Enduring Crop
Balkan beans return to their native soil.
