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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section

Dog(ma)

Although I have on occasion glimpsed what I took to be the light of wisdom in some mutt’s orbs, and while I’m convinced that when asked if a dog had Buddha-nature, Master Joshu answered not wu…

By Tom Robbins

Magazine | Special Section

Dharma Dogs

These stories present varying views—traditional and new—which, collectively, reflect the ancient dharma debate on whether or not a dog has Buddha-nature. Tina Fields, Pico Iyer, Elsie Mitchell, Darryl Ponicsan, and Tom Robbins give us contemporary views.…

By Tricycle

Magazine | Special Section

Dog

The dyslexic believes in dog, and so do I. Blessed be we. My dog, Toby, does a handstand, face deep into his bowl, and eats while balanced on his forepaws. I am astonished. I want to…

By Darryl Ponicsan

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section

Dogs Abroad

Dogs I usually think of as four-legged muscle relaxants, wagging counterparts to Penelope, or helicopter look-alikes with floppy ears for radars. They are creatures of hearth and home—household gods with legs—and they tie us to the…

By Pico Iyer

TeachingsMagazine | Special Section

The Dog’s Tooth

Once, as a Tibetan trader was preparing to leave on his travels, his mother asked him if he would bring her back a relic from India, the land of the Buddha. “I’m too old to make…

By Rafe Martin

CultureMagazine | Special Section

Dogs of Buddha

I On a shelf above a wide bedsit two Chinese-green jade Fu dogs;Shishi, lion dogs, Japanese people call them.As centuries drifted by, pairs replaceda solitary guardian, protectorof Buddhist altars, temples,graveyards, Imperial thrones, prosperous homes. This is…

By Elsie Mitchell

Features

Joseph Goldstein vipassana

Magazine | Feature

How Amazing!

Joseph Goldstein, dharma teacher and IMS cofounder, talks with Amy Gross about Vipassana and Dzogchen.

By Amy Gross

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature

Moss

Every year from as far back as I can remember until I left home to go to college, I would wake up on three or four Sundays each winter to find my dad at war with…

By Michael Clarfeld

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Magazine | Dharma Talk

In It Together

The mountains and rivers of the immediate present are the manifestation of the path of the ancient buddhas. Because they are the self before the emergence of signs, they are the penetrating liberation of ultimate reality.…

By Reb Anderson

Magazine | Editors View

The Karma of Words

President Clinton has certainly carved out an odd legacy of language. Only months ago, his behavior in the Oval Office turned prime-time television news into salacious reports in need of parental monitoring. Now, the White House…

By Tricycle

Magazine | In the News

In the News Summer 1999

In Remembrance: Michael Aris Dr. Michael V. Aris, the husband of Burmese opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, died of prostate cancer in London on March 27, his 53rd birthday. Dr. Aris earned…

By Tricycle

Magazine | Parting Words

Brushing Up Against the Buddha

I am not a Buddhist although I have enjoyed Buddha’s company for many years. Cast in cement, he sits quietly on the deck outside my painting studio surrounded by lumpy concrete animals all purchased at Pizzarilli’s…

By Tricycle

Magazine | On Gardening

Whitefly Zen

As a front-line organic gardener allergic to pesticides of any stripe, I have ample opportunity to practice Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in our huge, teeming garden. Lately, as clouds of pests and beneficial organisms descend onto…

By Wendy Johnson

Magazine | Letters

Letters to the Editor Summer 1999

Another Brick in the Wall I would like to respond to one point made by Aitkin Roshi in the article “Buddhism Without Walls.” It is the question of what we may wish to retain in the…

By Clark Strand

CultureMagazine | Reviews

Books, Music, Film, Mixed Media

Heal Thy SelfLessons in Mindfulness in MedicineSaki SantorelliCrown: New York, 1999288 pp.; $23 (paper) — Lotus in the Fire:The Healing Power of ZenJim BedardShambhala: Boston, 1999TK pp.; $14.95 (paper) At least two major surveys over the…

By Tricycle

Columns

IdeasMagazine | Column

GenNext: Reborn in the U.S.A.

Recently I was sitting in a musty old church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, waiting for Jack Kornfield to arrive for an evening dharma talk. As I looked out over the packed pews, I surveyed the sea of…

By Sumi Loundon Kim