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Being Time Through Deep Time
Our experience and understanding of time are vitally in need of revision in the current post-nuclear era. The large quantity of nuclear waste accumulated by nuclear power and nuclear weapons production since Hiroshima constitutes an unparalleled…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Time and Now
Buddhist teachers and quantum physicists dismantle the illusion of time and space.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Einstein’s Dreams
27 June 1905 Every Tuesday, a middle aged man brings stones from the quarry east of Berne to the masonry on Hodlerstrasse. He has a wife, two children grown and gone, a tubercular brother who lives…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
A Story for Sophie
Can you really just see?” the Theravada monk had asked. “Can you just listen?” We had gathered on the porch of a farmhouse in upstate New York. The weekend retreat had ended and a dozen…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
13th Century Zen Master Dogen on Being Time
An ancient Buddha said: For the time being stand on top of the highest peak. For the time being proceed along the bottom of the deepest ocean. For the time being three heads and eight…
CultureMagazine | Special Section
The Voyage: An Opera by Philip Glass
Libretto by David Henry Hwang
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Experience of Change
Interview with H.H. the Dalai Lama
Be Here When?
A special section on time. The Experience of Change: Interview with H.H. the Dalai Lama The Voyage: An Opera by Philip Glass Being Time Through Deep Time by Taigen Dan Leighton 13th Century Zen Master…
Features
In the Realm of Relationship
Mark Epstein interviews Jeffrey Hopkins
Enlightenment Needs a Minyan
I want to explore the possibility, within Buddhism, of enlightenment as a collective as well as an individual process, nurtured by a practice of public truth-telling in a community of spiritual equals. The seeds of this…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
When You Hear a Dog Bark
Adventures in Vipassana Meditation
Bodhisattva In The Rye
Holden Caulfield Talks Back
End of the Story
Toni Packer heads the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry and Retreats (located outside Rochester, New York), which she founded in 1981. During the previous thirteen years, she was a student of Roshi Philip Kapleau and served…
Departments
Dumbfounded in the Dharma
In Thoughts Without a Thinker, Dr. Mark Epstein recalls an encounter between Kalu Rinpoche and Korean Zen master Seung Sahn that took place twenty years ago at the home of a Harvard professor. As the Zen…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Zen in the Workplace
Approaches to Mindful Management
They Teach the Buddhist Faith
On September 1, 1899, Dr. Shuye Sonoda and Rev. Kakuryo Nishijima, the first two missionaries of the Jodo Shinshu (Pure Land) Sect of Japanese Buddhism to be sent to North America, arrived in San Francisco at…
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Summer 1996
Re: What You Tell Your Friends
Letters to the Editor Summer 1996
Talking Heads Congratulations on the Richard Gere interview [Spring 1996]. Once again, Tricycle has played its trickster hand. This time converting a cherished image of Gere as the main representative of designer dharma into a portrait…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Walking: Meditation on the Move
Achaan Chah, Sylvia Boorstein, Yasutani Roshi, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joan Halifax, Bruce Chatwin, Henry David Thoreau, and Matsuo Basho on walking meditation
Afterword
Mind—Les Levine Media Project was a project in three parts: 52 “See Your Mind” billboards, 5,000 Mind boxes in a shopping mall, and a television spot—all in the city of Langenhagen, Germany, in November, 1995. The…
Rainbow Painting
By Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road
By Sally Hovey Wriggins
Zen Physics: The Science of Death, the Logic of Reincarnation
By David Darling
Women, Men and Angels
By Subhuti (Alex Kennedy)
IdeasMagazine | From The Academy
The Return of the Suppressed
The Chinese rejection of the Dalai Lama’s choice of the next Panchen Lama, the second most important Tibetan lama, represents the greatest threat to the Tibetan institution of the incarnate lama in its history. It is…
MeditationMagazine | Mind On-Line
Free Speech / Right Speech
As a strange new medium, the Internet’s true nature is difficult to grasp. Is there anything special or uniquely valuable about it or is it simply being over-hyped. Could the Net even be dangerous—to children, for instance,…
IdeasMagazine | Uncommon Sense
Whither the American Left?
While congressional Republicans have adopted the stance of the pit bull, Democratic party leaders have been sent whimpering and piddling to the sidelines like lapdogs in virtually every debate over the future of this country. While…
In the News Summer 1996
BUDDHA’S BETHLEHEM Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba recently announced that an international team of archaeologists has uncovered the birthplace of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha. The site was buried under the Mayadevi temple in…
Year of the Rat
In early summer, just when gardeners should be tying up the waving tentacles of Marmande tomatoes or pinching back the tips of imperial larkspur, I find myself once again at the periphery of the garden, sowing…