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The Buddhist Review
Back Issues
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In This Issue
Features
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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Dismay of Motherhood
We are of the nature to get sick, grow old, and die. So are our children.
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Looking into the Eyes of a Master
A relational psychotherapist explores how we can see our teachers as people, both gifted and flawed.
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Facing the Wave
A journey through the devastation of Japan’s tsunami
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Meditation en Masse
How colonialism sparked the global Vipassana movement
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Dharma on the Playa
Buddhism at Burning Man
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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Beautiful Storm
Finding the hidden remedies in our troubled selves
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The Science Delusion
An interview with cultural critic Curtis White
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The Dream Team
Contributing editor Pamela Gayle White speaks with six dedicated practitioners before they enter three-year retreat.
Departments
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Featured Contributors Spring 2014
Contributors include Dr. Pilar Jennings, Winifred Bird, and Camille Seaman.
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The Three Friends of Winter
A tribute to the original Green Gulch farmer
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Letters to the Editor Spring 2014
A Slice of Humble Pie Thank you for Amie Barrodale’s article “La Pala” (Winter 2013). It reminded me of a passage from a book by Iris Murdoch, A Word Child: “Nothing humbles human pride more than…
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8,000 Miles to India
An encounter with S. N. Goenka
Hard Science, Hard Questions
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
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Magazine | Column, Online Retreats
Parting from the Four Attachments
Clarifying our motivations for practice
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First Thought, Worst Thought
Select wisdom from sources old and new
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Hearing Silence
Select wisdom from sources old and new
The Great Compassion
My eyes being hindered by blind passions, I cannot perceive the light that grasps me; Yet the great compassion, without tiring, Illumines me always. ♦ Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha, The Collected Works of Shinran, Vol. 1.
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The Eight Winds
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure. They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline.…
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Liberation
Select wisdom from sources old and new.
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Letting Go of Our Baggage
The process of cultivating mind can be compared to climbing up a mountain. On the way to the highest peak, imagine we come across all different kinds of luggage. Should we also carry these up the…
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IdeasMagazine | This Buddhist Life
An Interview with Chris McKenna
Q&A with a Mindful Educator
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CultureMagazine | Spotlight On
Shomyo no Kai
Voices of a Thousand Years
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TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Simple Joy
Becoming intimate with all of life's circumstances
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MeditationMagazine | Interview
The Counselor
Japanese priest Ittetsu Nemoto has made suicide prevention his life’s work.
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Forget Happiness
Commentary on two verses from Tokme Zongpo’s Thirty-seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
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Romance Rehab
Retreat is not the escape a young meditator expects
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Mind Matters
Positive thinking in America
Books in Brief Spring 2014
Covering the latest in Buddhist publishing
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CultureMagazine | Parting Words
The Squirrel Sutra
Parting words from Maitreyabandhu
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Columns
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The Sweet Life
The fountain of youth is a chocolate one.
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The Three Friends of Winter
A tribute to the original Green Gulch farmer
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8,000 Miles to India
An encounter with S. N. Goenka
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Magazine | Column, Online Retreats
Parting from the Four Attachments
Clarifying our motivations for practice
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Pleasure and Pain
A closer look at two Pali words
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“There is no self.”
“Nope, never said that, either.”—The Buddha
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The Many Meanings of Dharma
Deciphering Buddhism’s most common word