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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Too Much
Rafi Zabor approaches the limits of suffering while caring for his aging parents.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Raising the Stakes
Andrew Black is a Buddhist who came in fifth in the 2005 World Poker Championship. Vishvapani asks him how Buddhism and poker stack up.
Just Power
In a talk given at Smith College, Helen Tworkov reflects on a half century of American Buddhist women and reimagines the future of power.
The Transcendent Imperative
At a time when our spiritual traditions struggle to remain relevant in a culture dominated by scientific materialism, Andrew Cooper considers the pros and cons of a new religious model based on the psychology of “flow.”
Departments
What Lies Beneath
Documenting the Dalai Lama
The Madison Avenue Sutra
Woven from the text of twenty enlightened ad campaigns
The Jesus Sutra
Tales of an unlikely Himalayan pilgrim
No Shortcuts
Paul Breiter visits revered Thai teacher Ajahn Chah on his first trip to America.
Books in Brief Winter 2005
In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonBhikkhu Bodhi, Ed. & Trans.Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2005496 pp.; $18.95 (paper) Wisdom Publications’ hefty translations of the Pali canon have, for many practitioners, been books…
Contributors Winter 2005
Rafi Zabor, whose new book, I, Wabenzi, is excerpted in this issue (“Too Much,”), writes: “The opening of I, Wabenzi was the first aesthetically successful, living thing I was able to write several years into the…
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
A Perfect Balance
Cultivating equanimity with Gil Fronsdal and Sayadaw U Pandita
The Proof is in the Practice
In recent months, proponents of “intelligent design” have enjoyed remarkable success in pitching to American school boards what amounts to nothing less than stealth creationism. By arguing that this essentially religious notion rises to the level…
TeachingsMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
No Essence
Andrew Olendzki examines the dilemma of good and evil in human nature.
No Prisoners
Tibet at War
Coming Up Empty
Search for self called off after 38 years.
A New Bottom Line
The first Spiritual Activism Conference offers a hopeful vision for a movement of spiritual progressives—and interesting lessons for engaged Buddhists.
How to Transcend Dental Medication
Ajahn Brahm tells the tale of a fearless monk and a pair of pliers.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Portfolio
Moonscapes & Mushroom Clouds
The brilliance and inconsequence of humanity through the eye of Michael Light
Buddha Buzz Winter 2005
Reality BitesABC Television put out a casting call this summer for Buddhist families to appear on its reality show Wife Swap. In the show, two wives from two separate families switch lives for eight days: chaos,…
Across Cultures
Tibet through Chinese eyes
In the Wonka Bardo
Lessons from the factory floor
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | My View
After the Flood
New Orleans evacuee Erik Hansen recounts the tense lead-up to Hurricane Katrina and searches for answers in its tragic wake.
Fairy Tales and Zen Riddles
Storyteller Rafe Martin discusses the transformative and guiding power of myth with Joseph Sorrentino.
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Cutting Ties: The Fruits of Solitude
Pema Chödrön walks us through Shantideva's prescription for solitude, verse by verse.
Give and Take: On Studying Koans
Andrew Cooper chats with Gerry Shishin Wick Roshi, President and Spiritual Leader of Great Mountain Zen Center in Lafayette, Colorado.
Pocket Poets
Old India's finest in translation
To Not Be, Or Not Not to Be
Shantideva, Dogen, . . . Shakespeare? Mark Lamonica finds the Buddha in the Bard.
Organ Dana
In Sri Lanka, giving of oneself takes a literal turn.
Letters to the Editor Winter 2005
The Dispute Of HappinessThe Tricycle Fall 2005 issue was one of the best yet! So many articles on happiness, so much to think about—and like all really good discussions, it left me asking so many questions!…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Interview
Dharma for Sale
Contributing editor Tracy Cochran speaks with Buddhist scholar Mu Soeng about the danger of selling the dharma.
Have it Your Way
Two documentaries expose divergent views of death and nature.
