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TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Deluding Force
Sharon Salzberg on anger
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Knife of Compassion
A teaching story of anonymous origins from Once Upon a Time, a collection of ear-whispered tales that pass among Western students.
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Shantideva Patience
From A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Color-Blind Fury
Tired of anger and bitterness an African-American attorney describes the roots of her rage and the experience of going beyond them.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
A Streetcar in Your Stomach
Anger was carefully modulated in my family. As a small child, my supreme act of rage was to hurl my father’s toothbrush to the bottom of the carpeted stairs. For a long time, looking back, I…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Angry Faces
For a Buddhist on death row, anger always wears the same expression
CultureMagazine | Special Section
From Fuck You, Cancer and Other Poems
"Primordial fury / Atoms of anger"
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
What To Do When The Anger Gets Hot
Gelek Rinpoche speaks with Tricycle's Amy Gross
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Stopping the Wind
On the constant motion of the mind
Summer 1985
A short story by Helen Tworkov
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Awakening to Anger
A teacher, translator, and disciple of Kalu Rinpoche speaks with Tricycle about how the Tibetan lojong or “mind training” teachings can shift the soil in which anger grows.
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Putting Down the Arrow
A Tibetan lama on defusing the worst evil there is
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Be Here Angry Now
Mark Epstein, psychiatrist and author, speaks with Tricycle about expressing, transforming, and dissolving anger.
Features
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Riding in the Rain Shadow
An American woman's horseback sojourn in Buddhist Mustang, where villages are protected by god-ponies.
Life’s Not A Problem
Amy Gross interviews Zen teacher Charlotte Joko Beck about everyday practice, American Buddhism, and making koans out of monkeyshines.
Departments
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being A Buddhist Mean to You? Summer 1998
RE: Anger
Not Yet
“A special section on anger? But I thought Buddhists weren’t supposed to get angry?” I kept hearing this as we prepared “Seeing Red: Practicing with Anger.” Often enough, the verbal response was followed by a giggle,…
Sword of Compassion?
Two new books unveil the complicity of Zen and the Japanese military in one of the bloodiest chapters of WWII
Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West
By Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Inner Revolution
Robert Thurman's new book argues for the revolutionary potential of Buddhist teachings.
Letters To The Editor Summer 1998
The Dorje Shugden Debate, Part II Shugden controversy. You have once again proved your commitment to open dialogue and fearlessness and have raised the controversy to the level of an honest debate—a time-honored tradition of settling…
Playing in the Zone: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Sports
By Andrew Cooper
The Way
In a coda to Sitting: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation, Diana St. Ruth describes the fruits of freedom.
IdeasMagazine | From The Academy
Performative Utterance
One of the occupational hazards of being a professor of Buddhism, at least in the United States, is that one is inevitably asked at some point during the semester, “Are you a Buddhist?” Sometimes at the…
In the News Summer 1998
In Memorium: Jishu Holmes Zen teacher Sandra Jishu Angyo Holmes died of heart failure on March 20 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at age fifty-seven. Sensei Holmes, together with her husband, Roshi Bernie Glassman, co-founded the Zen…
No Trace
A few miles north of Green Gulch Farm is Muir Woods National Monument, a pristine stand of old-growth redwoods. Lately, I’m there a lot helping to pickax open the seized soil in Bohemian Grove so that…
Dirty Laundry: 100 Days in a Zen Monastery
Dirty Laundry: 100 Days in a Zen MonasteryRobert Winson and Miriam SaganLa Alameda Press: Albuquerque, 1997200 pp., $14.00 (paper) On New Year’s Day 1992, a Zen priest named Robert Winson and his wife, the poet Miriam…
The Sacred Life of Tibet
By Keith Downman
IdeasMagazine | In The Footsteps Of The Buddha
The Life of Ananda, Guardian of the Dhamma
Ananda, the Buddha’s cousin and attendant, was renowned among the great disciples for his zealous devotion and for preserving the teachings intact. He served the Buddha loyally for twenty-five years, accepting no privilege, and was designated…
IdeasMagazine | On Translation
The Semantics of Samadhi
Zen practitioner and neuroscientist James H. Austin unpacks the many meanings of samadhi.