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IdeasMagazine | Special Section
The Millennium: A Bridge between the Relative and the Ultimate
Reflections of a Buddhist Theoretical Physicist
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Does the Millennium Mean Anything?
“In these matters take no notice of the words of any man [meaning Aristotle], for it is the foundation of our[Jewish] faith that God created the world from nothing, that time did not exist before, because…
Fuse Yajiro’s Death Poems
A warrior named Fuse Yajiro grew ill in the spring, and by autumn he was dying. He wrote this poem: Before longI shall be a ghostbut just nowhow they bite my flesh!the winds of autumn. After…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
In the Time of Waste
Joanna Macy, author, activist, and Buddhist teacher, looks at time from the perspective of our nuclear legacy.
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Timescapes
While rotating on its axis at 1,670 kilometers per hour, the planet earth orbits the sun at 108,000 kilometers per hour. Light, traveling at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second, is energy created by wave…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Time from the Point of View of a Slime Mold
As we get older we wonder at our impatience, when, as children, we had to wait in the station for the train to arrive. It is one of the many signs that time has very different…
Special Section: Vast Time
Between the Buddhist Calendar, which dates the coming year at approximately 2543, and Buddhist teachings that speak of “beginningless time” in which the whole of the past and future exist only in the present moment, the…
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Watching the Ancestral Prayers of Venerable Others
Lena Higgins, 92, breastless,blind, chewing her gums by the window,is old, but the Great Comet of 1843 is much older than that. Dry landtortoises with their elephantinefeet are often very old, but giant sequoias of the…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Deep Time: Beyond 2000
As we approach the millennium, some two thousand years after the birth of Christ, it is tempting to reflect on time in the widest scientific sense in order to attempt to break free of Judea-Christian cultural…
Haibun
Rock is naturalist scripture. The deeper you go the older the story. Pikas & squirrels scamper over the top, then spiral descent from gone tooth & twig. Petrified bone sediment myth. Or psychic fossil? Horesetail &…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Big, Big Bang
One of the fathers of the Big Bang was sitting across the aisle from me on the train, so I introduced myself. I had seen P.J.E. Peebles speak at a conference in Washington that afternoon at…
Features
Flights From Lhasa
Forty years after the Chinese invaded Tibet, Orville Schell looks back to 1904 when Colonel Francis Younghusband led a British expeditionary force into the holy city of Lhasa. Despite many brutal losses, the Tibetans and their…
A Sangha by Another Name
A Buddhist and one of America’s preeminent African-American writers applies the suffering of the First Noble Truth to the suffering of blacks in white America, and traces the history of Dharma among black artists.
Departments
Letters to the Editor Winter 1999
I Like Trike I continue to be amazed by Tricycle—its intelligence, its emotional impact, and the thread of compassion that weaves through it. I am impressed, delighted, angered and frustrated by Tricycle—and I learn from it.…
Straight Ahead
An interview with John Daido Loori
IdeasMagazine | In The Footsteps Of The Buddha
Pilgrims, Peace, and Politics: Lumbini, Birthplace of Gautama Buddha
The Buddha predicted that his birthplace would become one of four places that “men of belief” would visit, but today, modern-day politics grow amidst the ruins and faster than new monasteries.
Millennium Mind
Seeking words of wisdom from a renowned adept, a young acolyte trekked to the top of a mountain. Sitting at the master’s feet he asked, “Can you tell the future?” The master said, “Certainly I can.…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
As the Clouds Vanish
A father and his son speak on Dzogchen, called the Great Perfection in Tibetan Dharma
MeditationMagazine | Web Exclusive
Genetic Engineering: A Buddhist Assessment
What will it be like to be a Buddhist in a future world where your life starts with your parents designing your genes? In addition to screening for unwanted genetic diseases, they select for sex, height,…
In the News Winter 1999
UNTOEING THE LINE Monks from the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) are facing more arrests and detention. According to Reuters, a UBCV monk, Thich Khong Tanh, 56, was detained in September. Upon his release…
By the Wayside
The Buddha (trans. Juan Mascaro)
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Everything, O Bhikkus, Is Burning
On New Year’s Day five years ago, I planted a handful of seeds gathered from a Paulownia tree that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, fifty years before. The seeds were given to me by…
Books Winter 1999
Books in Brief An annotated selection of new and noteworthy guidebooks, teachings, and scholarly texts The Practice of MahamudraDrikung Kyabgon Chetsang RinpocheSnow Lion Publications, $12.95Mahamudra is the highest teaching in the Kagyupa school of Tibetan Buddhism.…
Countdown to the New Millennium: How Many Breaths Do You Have Left?
If you thought focusing on your breath to the count of ten was hard, consider the roughly 770,000 breaths you have left from Thanksgiving Day until the end of the millennium. A person breathes on average…
MeditationMagazine | Interview
Stroked by the Guru
An Interview with Ram Dass
Columns
Consider Yourself a Tourist
Advice from the Dalai Lama on making our lives meaningful and dealing with our mortality.
GenNext: Taking a Breather
“I’m so stressed out!” That was my mantra during the first exam period my freshman year of college. After homage to the Stress God I would gulp another cup of coffee, exacerbating my nervous condition. My…
A Gathering of “Wild and Wise” Women
Spirit Rock Meditation Center hosted its fourth annual “Wild and Wise” Buddhist women’s weekend gathering, September 25-26. Located in the rural hills of California, the retreat was led by Tsultlim Allione, author of Women of Wisdom;…