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Basho’s Practice
Sam Hamill learns to seek what the masters sought.
Zen Master Marlowe
In the Raymond Chandler mystery novels of the forties and fifties, Noah Buschel discovers a true American bodhisattva.
New Body, Old Mind
After a harrowing escape from Chinese-controlled Tibet two years ago, Ugyen Trinley Dorje, the fifteen-year-old Karmapa, walked into the bright glare of the world stage. Journalist Swati Chopra profiles a leader-in-the-making.
War or Peace? Thinking Outside the Box
Four Buddhists grapple with the precept of non-killing. A roundtable discussion with Lama Surya Das, Jan Chozen Bays, José Cabezón, and Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Children and Dharma: An Introduction
Neil Gordon ponders the hard truth of parenting: To love our children is to lose them again and again, in every passing moment.
Radical Presence
An interview with poet and activist Anne Waldman.
Poetry as Path: Five Haiku by Basho
Awaiting snow, poets in their cups see lightning flash *Noon doze, wall cool against my feet. *Do not forget the plum, blooming in the thicket. *Dipping moon, sea-pungent rice wine. * Skylark on moor—sweet song…
Who’s Who
addendum to 'War or Peace' article
Basho as Teacher
Jane Hirshfield realizes that only by losing oneself can one discover one's true destination.
On The Borderline
How a Zen-friendly psychologist revolutionized the treatment of patients once thought hopeless.
Second Innocence: With Basho at Sesshin
Chase Twichell finds a new and hard-won freedom.
Keeping a Good Heart
Interview: Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche explores the nature of emptiness, the role of the teacher, and the unique challenges of teaching in the West.
The Secret of Perfect Recall
Erik Pema Kunsang (Erik Hein Schmidt), a native of Denmark, is the publisher of Rangjung Yeshe Publications, which translates contemporary Tibetan teachings and classical Buddhist texts into English. He studied under Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and many…
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Books in Brief Spring 2002
Classics of Buddhism and Zen: The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary Shambhala Publications: Boston, 2001720 pp. in 4 volumes $175.00 (cloth) In four hardbound volumes representing twenty-two separate works, here is a handsome set of acclaimed…
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
One Chance, One Encounter
Can we be present to each moment of our lives? Soko Morinaga Roshi teaches us a liberating presence in play.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Roots
Whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let themdangleAnd the dirtjust to make clearWhere they come from. —Charles Olsen Winter rain, falling for ten thousand years. I celebrate Groundhog Day on my hands and…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Taking Fear Apart
Ken McLeod disassembles the components of fear.
‘Ram Dass: Fierce Grace’ by Mickey Lemle
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace Produced and directed by Mickey Lemle 2001, 93 minutes In February of 1997, spiritual leader and teacher Ram Dass suffered a massive stroke, leaving him with a mild speech disorder and partial…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Inviting Fear
Amaro Bhikkhu guides us through a meditation on fear and teaches us to tame it with attention.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | My View
The Nonduality of Good and Evil
Buddhism encourages us to be wary of antithetical concepts, not only good and evil, but success and failure, rich and poor, even the duality between enlightenment and delusion.
Cutting Through Fear
Cutting Through Fear:A Tibetan Buddhist Practice for Cultivating Compassion and Courage By Tsultrim Allione Sounds True: 2001 Audio Series: 2.5 hours, 2 cassettes, $19.95 By the time the Chinese swept in in 1959, information technology in…
Contributors Spring 2002
Soko Morinaga Roshi, (“Dharma Talk”) was ordained as a Zen monk in Japan in 1948 and trained in the monastery at Daitokuji, eventually receiving the seal of dharma transmission from Sesso Ota Roshi. He died in…
Cyber Buddhism in Bangkok
In the garden outside Wat Buaniwet, Thailand’s most important Buddhist temple, Abhinito, a young monk, sat with me under the shade of a large tropical plant. Together, we discussed Abhinito’s emigration from Indonesia to Thailand, the…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
It’s Only Natural
Wes Nisker learns the wisdom of fear.
Absolute Relativity
Time and again the passion for understanding has led to the illusion that man is able to comprehend the objective world rationally by pure thought without any empirical foundations—in short, by metaphysics. —Albert Einstein By becoming…
A Word of Dissent
A friend of mine who begins each morning on the cushion used to get on my nerves carrying on about oceanic oneness. Not long after September 11, though, he was hopping mad and pinning his hopes…
An Anti-Sermon On The Mount
'Ten New Songs' by Leonard Cohen
Letters to the Editor Spring 2002
Tricycle welcomes letters to the editor. Letters are subject to editing. Please send correspondence to: Tricycle: The Buddhist Review92 Vandam StreetNew York, NY 10013Fax: (212) 645-1493E-mail address: editorial@tricycle.com Absolute Dharma? In his illuminating article “One Dharma”…
Tea on the Dead Sea
Soen Nakagawa Roshi (1907-1984) figured greatly in the transmission of Zen to the West. In the wild antics of this late teacher, Sean Murphy finds wisdom and a mischievous heart
Buddhist Conversions in India
It was November 3, 2001, the day before the long-awaited mass conversion. Ram Raj had been expecting one million to attend. Agitated, he appeared at my hotel soon after I arrived in Delhi: “Quickly, we have…
The Quantum of the Lotus’ by Mattieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan
The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey To The Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet By Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan Crown Publishers: New York, 2001 312 pp.; $25.00 (cloth) Those of us who came…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Between Two Mountains
John Daido Loori Roshi walks the difficult path between fear of living and fear of dying.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Bursting the Bubble of Fear
Haven't we always been afraid? So now we know it. Ezra Bayda walks us through age-old fear and shows us what it really is.
Columns
Responding to Tragedy
As Tricycle’s contact for the Dharma Directory, I had the unusual privilege of speaking with practitioners from dozens of Buddhist communities across the country in the weeks following the September 11th attacks. From my conversations and…