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MeditationMagazine | Special Section
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
...and it may not be what you want, anyway.
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Immeasurable Depths
The love poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama celebrate and lament the pangs of desire.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
The Merry-Go-Round of Desire
An Interview with Mark Epstein: A contemporary psychiatrist uses ancient Buddhist wisdom to make sense of desire in our everyday lives.
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Working With Desire
Three approaches from Tibetan Buddhism
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Making Room For Desire
What it means when we fall in love with someone we don't even know
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
For A Mouthful of Grass
The eighth-century Buddhist master on desire's trap
CultureMagazine | Special Section
A Sex-Loving Monk
A Zen monk embraces the red thread of passion
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Drink and a Man
When does craving become addiction?
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
The Riddle of Desire: Introduction
There comes a moment in everyone’s practice when our fixed ideas of what is spiritual, and what’s not, collapse in a paradoxical heap before our very eyes. We’re troubled, mystified, frequently angered by these intrusions of…
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Six Small Meditations on Desire
Desire is fuel.
Features
Living With The Devil
A Buddhist take on good and evil.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Cold Hard Cash and the Middle Way
It turns out money’s not so bad after all.
Departments
Big Mind, Small Screen: Six Feet Under’s Alan Ball
Can a prime-time TV show take Buddhist sensibilities into the mainstream?
Buddhism And Yoga
From downward dog to the dharma
Da, The Buddhist
What happens when a lapsed-Catholic house painter from Glasgow suddenly takes up Buddhist meditation? For Jimmy McKenna—”Da” (Scottish for “Dad”) in Buddha Da, Anne Donovan’s acclaimed first novel, just published in the U.S.—it’s the undoing of…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
Allen Ginsberg Saves His Beard
As remembered by Naropa’s first poetry student, Sam Kashner
The Return Of The Karmapa
Politics of succession among the Karma Kagyu.
Beyond The “Whodunit”
Mystery without mysticism
What Is The Sound Of Ice Melting?
“Respect simple, humble materials.” —Paul Kos What does ice sound like as it melts? It sounds absurd. But it’s not, as Paul Kos demonstrated in his 1970 installation “The Sound of Ice Melting,” based on…
Maha Magnolia Mind
In a season of constant change, the primeval magnolia offers reassurance.
Lighten Up!
Buddhism's not such a raw deal.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Practical Pilgrim
The Last Blissful Breath
A visit to Kushinagar, where the Buddha took his last breath.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Finding Patience
How to survive a traffic jam—on the road, or in the heart.
Our Man in Bodh Gaya
An unexpected trip to the site of the Buddha's enlightenment.
Contributors Summer 2004
Tricycle editor-at-large Joan Duncan Oliver mined her own compulsions for “Drink and a Man” (page 67), a first-person essay in the special section “The Riddle of Desire.” “I wish I’d read Mu Soeng’s new book, Trust…
MeditationMagazine | Editors View
Lightening Up
Many years ago I sat in a café reading a college textbook on Buddhism. An elderly woman at the next table had been eyeing me curiously and seemed to have something to say. I looked over…
Letters To The Editor Summer 2004
Eternal Delight In her article on the First Hindrance [“On Practice,” Spring 2004], Geri Larkin offers advice to a reader who feels guilty about desiring someone other than her/his partner. In her response she quotes the…
Spalding Gray <1941-2004>
Spalding Gray (1941-2004)In an interview with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in Tricycle’s premier issue, writer and performer Spalding Gray set the tone for issues to come with wit, humor, and what a few chagrined…
Devotional Cinema
Film as practice
Flying Monks?
Glenn H. Mullin is curator of “Flying Mystics of Tibetan Buddhism,” an exhibit at the Oglethorpe University Museum, in Atlanta, Georgia, through August 8, 2004. He recently spoke to Tricycle about the curious phenomenon of airborne…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
She wouldn’t harm a fly
As she returns to lay life, a Buddhist nun finds the first precept the hardest to keep.
Doors Without Walls
Navigating the threshold of attachment
Buddha Buzz Summer 2004
Monk stunts, mile-high meditation, and adventures in dharma dating
Dharma Deluxe
Can you put a price on the dharma? In this parable, one student finds out the hard way.
Nalanda For The Information Age
The "ancient seat of Buddhist learning" may be your ergonomic chair.
Khenpo Jigme Phuntsog
Tibetan scholar and visionary Khenpo Jigme Phuntsog (1933-2004)
MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
When Inspiration Strikes
What to do when inspiration strikes while sitting. Q & A with Gavin Harrison
Heart Sutra
In 1999, Michael Rothenberg became the caretaker for his teacher and mentor, Philip Whalen. The following poem is taken from his recent book, written as a eulogy to the late poet. Dharma transmission: “another maniac unleashed,…
Books In Brief Summer 2004
Mahamudra—direct examination of the mind—has a growing following in the West. Though an advanced teaching, it is well suited to Westerners, suggests Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, one of the foremost mahamudra teachers, and tutor to the 17th…
Columns
Throwing Out The Furniture
An interview with scholar Mu Soeng and an excerpt from his new book, Trust in Mind
Nothing To Hide
Gehlek Rimpoche: The "Renegade" Lama