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Say it Right
Katy Butler tells us how the methods of "Nonviolent Communication" can support our practice of Right Speech.
The Wheel
Sometime in the early eighties, I spent a few weeks in Hawaii, living in a cabin near the crater of the volcano called Kiluaea. Trees, flowers, and birds were all about. The daylight had a kind…
The Quality of Mercy
Robert Coe chats with countercultural performance artist Meredith Monk about compassion, terror, and “the voices within.”
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Winter
Rick Bass discovers the redemptive power of a frozen landscape.
On the Road
Trucker Paul Conrad shows how driving can provide opportunities for mindfulness.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Ah, But the Breezes . . .
Noelle Oxenhandler offers huge praise for the small word "but."
Romancing the Buddha
Theravadan monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu traces the roots of Western Buddhism to nineteenth-century Romanticism.
Departments
Dana Works: The Dharma Seed Archival Center
A Buddhist audio archive proves that a little dana—and a lot of faith—can go a long way
The Future of Peace’ by Scott A. Hunt
The Future of Peace:On the Front Lines with the World’s Great PeacemakersScott A. HuntHarperSanFrancisco, 2002384 pp.; $24.95 (cloth) UC Berkeley Buddhism professor Scott A. Hunt has assembled a collection of profiles of men and women he…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
At Home In Our Bodies
An interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Contributors Winter 2002
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is a meditation teacher, writer, and scientist. He recently retired from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was founding executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and…
MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
A Refuge Into Being
Q & A on meditation
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
Zen Moorings
Marshall Glickman traces his journey to Zen from his first half-lotus to his encounters with the kyosaku stick to his ultimate discovery of the “cosmic dance."
MeditationMagazine | Sangha Spotlight
In the Heart of the Smokies
A nontraditional Buddhist sangha is building a vision of a more just world, one pagoda at a time.
Equals’ by Philip Godwin
EqualsAdam PhillipsNew York: Basic Books, 2002272 pp.; $25.00 (cloth) Perhaps you have experienced the profound shock—or the mild amusement—that comes from finding yourself in a therapist’s office, eager to start working on your past, and with…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
Judging with a Nonjudgmental Mind
Stephen J. Fortunato, Jr., is an associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. He writes here on how he brings his Buddhist practice to his responsibilities as a trial judge.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Working with Pain
Diagnosed HIV-positive in 1989, Vipassana teacher Gavin Harrison offers some advice on how to confront physical pain.
Living Two Traditions
Vipassana and Zen teacher Gil Fronsdal talks to Tricycle about teaching and practicing in two traditions. Also includes Intolerance to Suffering: A dharma talk by Gil Fronsdal
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
The Second Arrow
Pain Without Suffering
Dhamma Works: The Pariyatti Book Service
Pariyatti Book Service has been spreading the Theravadan teachings since its inception in a home garage eight years ago.
An Everyday Aspiration
The bodhisattva ideal begins with the smallest acts.
We Can Still Be Crazy
We may think meditation will improve us, but it’s really about accepting ourselves as we are right now.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Against the Grain
For the last few days I have been lost in the thicket of the Indian summer garden, gathering the ripe seed of Galactic lettuce, Russian sunflowers, and multi-hued quinoa that hails from the Andean highlands. My…
Kobun Chino Roshi
An obituary by Sean Murphy and a remembrance by Andrew Schelling
Letters to the Editor Winter 2002
A Body of PraiseIn the more than ten years I have subscribed to Tricycle, I can’t remember a more engaging issue than the last (Fall 2002). I have often wondered why Tricycle has never addressed in…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
The Practice of Nonpreference
When pain becomes just one object among many in our awareness, it loses its power.
Returning to Occurrence
Rooted in ancient Taoist and Ch’an Buddhist thought, China’s “rivers-and-mountains” poetry represents one of the earliest encounters between wilderness and literature.
Spending Wisely
Peter Alsop speaks with Allan Hunt Badiner
Shopping the Dharma
How do we reconcile our roles as consumers and Buddhist practitioners?
Between Eternities
Is what we are yearning for already inside of us?
Democracy in Exile
Samdhong Rinpoche, the first democratically elected chairman of the Tibetan Cabinet-in-Exile, discusses the challenges of building a Buddhist democracy.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
When It Happens to Us
Living with the mistaken notion that we should be free of pain, we make matters worse for ourselves.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Parenting
Finding What’s Right in Front of Us
A parent and practitioner explores the difference between free time and freedom.
The Wisdom of No View
“The very belief that violence is unavoidable is a root cause of violence,” Samdong Rinpoche, the newly elected leader of Tibet’s Government-in-Exile, commented in a recent conversation with Tricycle. Far from advocating violence as a means…
Bare Branches, Bare Attention
As autumn turns to winter, we experience changes in the weather as well as within ourselves. Three haiku capture the transmigrations of the season.
TeachingsMagazine | Parting Words
Parting Words
P’u-hua Departs to the Sky
Books in Brief Winter 2002
The Art of Just Sitting:Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of ShikantazaJohn Daido Loori, ed.Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2002256 pp.; $16.95 (cloth) “Just sit” is one of the most commonly heard—and least understood—phrases associated with Zen Buddhism.…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Pain Without Suffering
Ezra Bayda, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Darlene Cohen, and Gavin Harrison explain how to use Buddhist practice to manage physical pain.
Fit to be Thai-ed
A Thai prison reforms prisoners on a vegetarian diet, chanting, and the teachings of S. N. Goenka.
Columns
On Conferences: A New Spirit at Spirit Rock
A gathering of African-American buddhists.