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Putting Spot Down
What is the compassionate thing to do? Trish Deitch Rohrer explores the Buddhist ethics of euthanizing pets.
Necessary Doubt
Ani Tenzin Palmo teaches that a questioning mind is essential to the Buddhist path.
Food for Enlightenment
Sandra Garson writes on how the Buddha came into your kitchen.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
A Green and Gold Place
A Harvard student’s academic mission takes an unexpectedly personal turn when she decides to ordain as a nun in Thailand.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Zen Catholic
Thomas Moore explores the living—rather than doctrinal—tradition of his birth. At its heart he finds Zen.
Huck and Tom’s Buddhist Adventure
In which the King and the Duke don monkish robes, the Widow Douglas takes refuge, and Huck Finn learns about skillful drinking.
Zen Master Seung Sahn on ‘Only Go Straight’
You say you looked in the mirror and said, “Who’s that?” I ask you: the mirror face and your face—which is the correct face? Are they the same or different? If you said, “Same,” I would…
Awareness
Anger,lust — these enemies of mine—Are limbless and devoid of facultiesThey have no bravery, no cleverness;How then have they reduced me to such slavery? I it is who welcome them within my heart,Allowing them to harm…
Departments
Who Talked to His Bees
Sometimes we miss the honey for the bees of the self.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Nonopposition
Master Sheng-yen challenges us to accept adversity without resistance.
TeachingsMagazine | Parting Words
Parting Words
Thus have I Heard: When the time had come for Gampopa to part from his teacher Milarepa, Milarepa placed the soles of his feet on the top of Gampopa’s head, symbolizing that their work together was…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Tonglen on the Spot
Tonglen—the Tibetan practice of "sending and receiving"—can be put to use in everyday situations.
Learning to Fall
In his struggle with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), Philip Simmons learns that his physical illness is just a manifestation of a more universal human malady.
The Lhasa Atlas
Traditional Tibetan Architecture and Townscape
MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
The Wisdom of Discomfort
Q & A with Sylvia Boorstein
Billion-bhat Buddha Boom Goes Bust
A Buddhist monk in Thailand who earned millions of dollars for charity by energizing amulets with “supernatural powers” said he would stop the practice as he was no longer able to concentrate. The monk, Luang Poh…
‘Ordinary Mind’ by Barry Magid
Ordinary Mind:Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and PsychotherapyBy Barry MagidWisdom Publications; Boston 2002 208 pp.; $22.95 (cloth) Americans have never been much for either/or. When presented with choices, and especially when operating as consumers (which…
Taking A Bath
The next time a community runs low on water, it might hope that monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in southern India are in the area. Consider recent events at Esalen Institute, the Big Sur, California…
Come and See
A recent New York Times article, asserting that “Nonviolence is no longer in fashion,” concluded that Buddhism has become another casualty of the “war on terror,” losing its once popular appeal. Some days later, in a…
Skillful Means For Liberation
Joseph Goldstein speaks to Tricycle about his recent book, One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Everyone as a Friend
Jeffrey Hopkins explains the Buddhist logic of embracing our enemies as our friends.
Zig Zag Zen
David Guy reviews a new book that explores the ethical and doctrinal considerations at the intersection of Buddhism and psychedelics.
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
Like a Dragon in Water
What can we do when our monkey minds pull us off the cushion? Simple, says Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara: Just practice.
Books in Brief Summer 2002
Essence of the Heart Sutra:The Dalai Lama’s Heart of Wisdom TeachingsBy Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai LamaWisdom Publications; Boston, 2002192 pp.: $22.95 (cloth) In the spring of 2001, the Dalai Lama gave teachings on the Heart…
Crossing the Threshold
Doorways provide not simply passage between rooms, but an awareness of the thresholds within ourselves.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Practice
What Name Did the Buddha Give His Son?
This morning I quizzed my eight-year-old daughter on her knowledge of Buddhism. This isn’t catechism class, just question and answer. I’m curious about how much she knows. We don’t belong as a family to any formal…
Contributors Summer 2002
“I don’t subscribe to the sentimental belief that ‘children are little Zen masters,’” says Contributing Editor Clark Strand, who wrote this issue’s “On Parenting” column, “but I will concede that they often speak the truth. In…
Enough Mind
Barbara Rhodes is the first female lineage holder in the Kwan Um school of Korean Zen.
Ani Pachen Dolma (1933-2002)
Adelaide Donnelley reports on the life and death of Tibetan nun Ani Pachen Dolma, imprisoned for twenty-one years for resisting the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
‘Novice to Master’ by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa and Soko Morinaga Roshi
Novice to Master:An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity By Soko Morinaga Roshi; Translated by Belenda Attaway YamakawaWisdom Publications: Massachusetts. 2002 144 pp.; $19.95 (cloth) Novice to Master is a posthumous offering of…
The General and the Abbot
When a rebel army took over a Korean town, all fled the Zen temple except the abbot. The rebel general burst into the temple and was incensed to find that the master refused to greet him,…
A Lingering Taste
Literature professor and wilderness activist John Elder ruminates on the Japanese game of Go as a metaphor for biological succession—and for the surprising patterns of his own life.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
A Harvest of Learning
One day a week my Zen Center work includes leaving the well-ordered calm of our windbell meditation garden and heading east to Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, where I work with a rowdy, rotating population…
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
Great Compassion by Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh shows that looking at the enemy with eyes of love is possible for all of us.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
Memoirs of a Lingerie Monk
Along with the keys to his lingerie store, the author’s father offers him a piece of unexpected advice: “The business of business is to forget business.”
Letters to the Editor Summer 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.org Violent Compassion Can violence ever constitute an appropriate Buddhist…
Taking a Bow
Ever wonder what happened to that favorite professor of yours from college? Students of retired Duke University professor of religion Roger Corless needn’t wonder any longer. In his new incarnation as “Dharma Daddy,” Corless has relocated…
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
Loving the Enemy
As a mother would risk her life to protect her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings. With goodwill for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: Above,…
‘Poets on the Peaks’ by John Suiter
Poets on the Peak: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen and Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades Text and Photographs by John Suiter Counterpoint Press: Washington, D.C., 2002 340 pp.; $40.00 (cloth) The time is long past when…
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
The Enemy Within
The Dalai Lama on why the inner enemy is the most dangerous one.
The Unknowable Reality
The more deeply scientists delve into scientific reality, the less substance they discover.
Brown Rice Is Just Right
As it turns out, emptiness can be understood perfectly while chewing rice.
Peace Warrior in the West Bank
Israeli activist and “human shield” Neta Golan practices the precept nonkilling in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, putting her beliefs—and her life—on the line for peace.
