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Special Section: What is the Emotional Life of a Buddha?
In Soto Zen, though there is no formal course of koan practice, students are often encouraged to practice with a question of their own. “What is the emotional life of a buddha?” is a question that…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Marpa Loses a Son
Milarepa‘s guru, Marpa the Translator, was an enlightened master who was also a farmer and family mam In the tenth century he returned to Tibet from India, bringing with him the priceless instructions of the whispered…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Ananda Weeping at the Doorpost
What is the Emotional Life of a Buddha?
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Milarepa
I bow down to all holy Gurus. I am the man called Milarepa, For possessions I have no desire. Since I never strive to make money, First I do not suffer Because of making it; Then…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Shattering the Ridgepole
What is the Emotional Life of a Buddha?
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Classic Zen Excerpts
Hakuin Japanese Rinzai Zen master (1689—1769) “Is That So?” The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life. A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Toward a Lightness of Being
What is the emotional life of a Buddha?
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Two Classic Zen Poems
Han-shan Chinese Buddhist hermit who lived on Mount Han-shan (Cold Mountain) around the middle of the 7th century I came once to sit on Cold Mountain And lingered here for thirty years. Yesterday I went to…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Kakacupama Sutta
Formerly, bhikkhus in this same Savatthi there was a housewife named Vedehika. And a good report about Mistress Vedehika had spread thus: “Mistress Vedehika is kind, Mistress Vedehika is gentle, Mistress Vedehika is peaceful.” Now Mistress…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Being Intimate with Demons
What is the Emotional Life of a Buddha?
Features
Blade Over the Heart: American Ninja
What kind of a Buddhist throws people down on the ground and carries a big stick? Ninja Stephen Hayes wrestles with our preconceptions and prejudices about what Buddhism should be.
On Meeting the Great Bliss Queen
Anne C. Klein on the Great Bliss Queen, Buddhist philosophy, and feminist thought
Madhyamika Meets Modernity
The life and works of Gendun Chopel
Departments
Anagarika Dharmapala
Anagarika Dharmapala delivers an address to the World Parliament of Religions, offering a view of Buddhism informed by his Western education
Book Reviews
The Soloist Mark Salzman Random House: New York, 1994. 284 pp. $19.00 (cloth). This could have been a helluva book, a marvel, a veritable gem glistening in the dull, plastic body of contemporary American fiction. Or…
Letters to the Editor Spring 1995
Go Bill! I read Tricycle from cover to cover and don’t understand ninety percent of what I read; but the ten percent I do understand helps me “deal with life” one day at a time (hopefully…
Ground Zero
With all the events that signal the acculturation of Buddhism in the West—including the interface between Buddhism and psychology or social action, or between practitioners and scholars—it is increasingly difficult to keep track of everything that…
In the News Spring 1995
The Pope's comments on Buddhism, internet novels, Tibetan protests, and more in Buddhist news
TeachingsMagazine | On Translation
On Translation: “That’s Very Zen”
“The Zen of what?” “Harmonica,” she said. “That’s what I thought you said.” I was standing outside the door of a classroom at a New Age center in New York. The woman in question had just…
Legends from Camp
A Nice Place Outside the rest home, resting in his wheelchair in the shade, my father said: “This is a nice place”– and I couldn’t tell if he meant the rest home in general, the shady…
Going Upstream
An interview with Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Breathing
When we practice zazen our mind always follows our breathing. When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless,…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Breathing
Instruction on vipassana meditation using the breath as object.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Breathing
There are many good methods of concentration bequeathed to us by our predecessors in Zen. The easiest for beginners is counting incoming and outgoing breaths. The value of this particular exercise lies in the fact that…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Breathing Meditation
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana on mindfulness of breathing.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Breathing
One of the most well-known, popular and practical examples of “meditation” connected with the body is called “The Mindfulness or Awareness of in-and-out breathing” (anopanosati). It is for this “meditation” only that a particular and definite…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Breathing
And how, monks, does a monk abide contemplating the body as body? Here a monk, having gone into the forest, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty place, sits down cross-legged, holding…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
First Thought
“First thought, best thought” refers to that first moment of fresh perception, the direct perception of the world as it is.
CultureMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Wake Up: Episode Eight
The eighth excerpt in a series of eight from Jack Kerouac's Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Columns
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Spring 1995
re: school prayer/a moment of silence