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ADAM FRANK ponders the relationship between Buddhism and the nature of time.
By Adam Frank
How a Harlem zendo is fighting to save lives
By Joan Duncan OliverFleet Maull’s Prison Dharma Network is bringing Buddhist teachings to inmates.
By Travis Duncan
After the long search, a path of homecoming
By Joel Agee
For the Nipponzan Myohoji, chanting is a practice of social transformation.
By Tracy CochranIn 1982, I was one of a small group of Zen students who were invited to an audience with Nichidatsu Fujii. Guruji, as he was affectionately known, was making a short visit to Los Angeles on his way back to Japan following that spring’s historic nuclear disarmament activities in New York, which he and his […]
Editor-at-Large [Andrew, Cooper] Andrew CooperMatthew Weiner speaks with Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne about his grassroots movement based on Buddhist principles.
By TricycleI just finished Vinegar Into Honey: Seven Steps To Understanding And Transforming Anger, Aggression, And Violence, by Ron Leifer (Snow Lion, 2008). I’m interested in emotional patterns, and I was curious to see how Leifer, a psychiatrist and Buddhist meditation teacher, would suggest working with anger. The title is a Tibetan metaphor for transforming negative […]
By Martine Batchelor
Breaking free of unhealthy relationships allows us to replace dependency and neurosis with compassionate respect.
By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Daisaku Ikeda is President of the Soka Gakkai International, the world’s largest Buddhist lay group and America’s most diverse. In a rare interview, Ikeda speaks to contributing editor Clark Strand about his organization’s remarkable history, its oft-misunderstood practice, and what its members are really chanting for. From Hollywood celebrities to renowned jazz musicians to everyday practitioners […]
By The Editors
We are what we do.
By Andrew Olendzki
Pamela White affirms the beliefs of a Buddhist.
By Pamela Gayle WhiteExplaining Emptiness
By Andrew Merz
Susan Moon on the necessity of alternative meditation postures
By Susan MoonTo Zen nun and animal-welfare journalist Mira Tweti, Buddhism is indeed for the birds.
By Joan Duncan Oliver
Daehaeng Kun Sunim teaches that Juingong, the shared foundation of our selves and our thoughts, forms an unbreakable bond that exceeds us all.
By Daehaeng Kun Sunim
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is well known for his longstanding interest in science and, in recent years, for his scholarly engagements with scientists at the (now annual) Mind and Life conferences. Mind and Life: Discussions With The Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality by Pier Luigi Luisi with Zara Houshmand (Columbia University […]
By Aaron LackowskiSINCE MEDITATION IS so closely associated with Buddhism in the West, it may be a surprise to many of our readers that the majority of the world’s Buddhists do not meditate at all. Yet one of America’s most vibrant Buddhist groups—and certainly the most ethnically, socially, and economically diverse—doesn’t practice sitting meditation. Instead, students of […]
By James Shaheen
After a storm, a runner sees the world with fresh eyes.
By Ed BrickellSCIENCE CATCHES UPIn her article (“Long Journey to a Bow,” Fall 2008), Christina Feldman points out the importance of penetrating the conceit of self, describes its various manifestations, and suggests that liberating ourselves begins with becoming sensitive to those manifestations. As she writes, life is a powerful ally in undermining conceit by providing us with […]
By Tricycle
What is Zen? Robert Aitken provides three takes.
By Robert AitkenKerouac’s Buddhaevan
By Evan BrennerALLAN LOKOS, the guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center in New York City, notes that when he began walking the Buddha’s path, he was surprised and delighted by the emphasis placed on the practice of “Skillful Speech.” “We are always engaged in relationships,” Lokos says, “including the relationship with ourselves. I believe there is […]
By TricycleDennis Genpo Merzel offers a practice to work with our shadow sides and awaken our enlightened nature.
By Dennis Genpo Merzel
By working with the lay precept on speech, we can learn to say the right thing at the right time.
By Allan Lokos
A poem by the 9th-century Zen Master Decheng, translated by Mary M.Y. Fung and David Lunde
By TricycleBanjo riffs and eclectic roots
By Sarah ToddMemoirs of an Ex-Monk
By Dan ZigmondThe Middle Way is achieved when one reaches that point of cosmic balance between austerity and the creature comforts of the world. The ascetics who were with the Buddha were critical of him because he was no longer living an austere lifestyle. They considered his life too “cushy.” He was eating beautiful food and wearing a […]
By Joan Gattuso
Master Sheng Yen has dedicated his life to spreading the teachings of Chan Buddhism in China and in the West. In this excerpt from his new autobiography, Footprints in the Snow, Master Sheng Yen tells the story of his arrival in New York and how he learned to live without a home. AFTER I RESIGNED […]
By Master Sheng-Yen