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What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Winter 1992
Re: Euthanasia
By Tricycle
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Re: Euthanasia
By TricycleLooking back I wince at the memory of reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead to my dying grandfather. The arrogance of imposing those terrifying descriptions of the final deterioration on the faltering impulses of an old Jewish man born in Odessa and dying in Brooklyn! My brother, having arrived from California expectedly, found me transmitting […]
By Virginia MacLeanAn Interview with Stephen Levine
By Carole Tonkinson
The pneumatic mattress massaged her skin; there were pads between her knees, and they had a hoop over them to prevent the sheets from touching; another arrangement stopped her heels touching the draw-sheet: but for all that, bedsores were beginning to appear all over her body. With her hips paralyzed by arthritis, her right arm half […]
By Simonede Beauvoir
Mercy, Deliverance, and the Nature of Suffering
By Patricia AndersonI exit the subway to my quiet Brooklyn neighborhood and there he is again, wearing a ragged T-shirt, torn jeans, and dirty sneakers, sweeping the subway steps with an old broom. He looks at me pleadingly. Feeling generous, I reach into my pocket for a coin but find only crumpled bills. Too much, I think. Mumbling […]
By Jeffery Zaleskiwith Peter Coyote
By Tricycle
A sacred outlook in everyday life
By Rita M. GrossThe Search for the new Karmapa
By Keith Dowman
Five years go, I traveled to Kyoto to learn about stillness and focus in the Zen temples whose pictures I had long admired. What I quickly learned was that Zen required much more commitment and rigor than the postcards could suggest: dilettantes need not apply. Returning to California, I stumbled, without meaning to, upon a small […]
By Pico IyerAn Insider’s view of Nichiren Shoshu
By Sandy McIntosh
Jerry Brown talks with Les Levine
By Jerry BrownSome people in Western culture remember that holiday gift-giving is meant to be a joyful commemoration of great sacred events. In this all but forgotten spirit, here are a few books by the Dalai Lama of Tibet, an embodiment of Peace on Earth and good will toward all sentient beings. The Meaning of Life From […]
By Tracy CochranBy Mitsu Suzuki, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Gregory A. Wood
By David Schneider
By Namkhai Norbu
By Diane ShainbergEdited by Max Oelschlaeger
By Stuart SmithersTranslated by Thomas Cleary and J. C. Cleary
By Sam HamillBy The Twelfth Tai Situpa
By Steven D. GoodmanBy Thomas A. Tweed
By Rick Fields
By Sogyal Rinpohce, edited by Patrick Gaffney and Andrew Harvey
By Dean RolstonThe Birth of Siddartha
By Robertallen MitchellTranslated by Lucien Stryk with the assistance of Noboru Fujiwara
By Peter Levitt
A few years ago I spent a week doing a retreat next to a stream at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in southern Colorado. The ground rules were fairly simple: retreatants were to live as close to “nature” as possible. Instead of sleeping in a tent, I slept either under the stars […]
By Rick FieldsEdited by Kenneth Kraft / By Christopher Ives
By Williamla FleurBuddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1992. 238 pp. $14.95 (paperback). In the desperation sweeping our world today, religion plays an increasing role in civil conflict. Yet the case of Sri Lanka seems particularly, tragically puzzling. For this is Dhammadvipa, isle of the dharma, home of teachings that enshrine nonviolence. […]
By Joanna Macy
From Anger to Patience
By Dalai Lama
Thoreau’s Translation of the Lotus Sutra
By Wendell PiezIN MEMORIAM On October 19, environmentalist, feminist, and Tibet activist Petra Kelly who was best known as the founder of the Green Party in Germany, was discovered dead along with her longtime companion Gert Bastion in their home in a suburb of Bonn. Both were former members of Parliament. At the time of death Kelly […]
By Tricycle
From a Zen Workshop with John Daido Loori
By John LooriBuddhism emphasizes that death has only one intrinsic quality: not deliverance or joy, sadness or salvation—but certainty. In a universe of variables, it remains the only reliable beacon. To contemplate death, then, and allow this one certainty to inspire our daily behavior is, from a Buddhist perspective, a sane and radically pragmatic inquiry for everyone. Historically […]
By Helen TworkovRuth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
By Ellen PearlmanTURNING WHEEL The Journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship has undergone a name and format change. Now known as Turning Wheel, this well-designed magazine edited by Susan Moon does an excellent job exploring the twofold purpose of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship: to raise peace, environmental, feminist, and social justice concerns among Western Buddhists; and to […]
By Tricycle