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How has a mistake, shortcoming, or misfortune enriched your Buddhist practice?
On things that go flap in the night
What is it about the Internet that turns Buddhist teachers into bullies?
There are no obstacles, just opportunities. Take them now.
A Zen teacher wanders into the heart of his father’s final days.
Like a telescope launched into orbit beyond the distortions of the earth’s atmosphere, shamatha meditation provides a platform for exploring the deep space of the mind.
Does practice have to be torture?
“All of the different religious communities accept that there is another force beyond the reach of our ordinary senses. When we pray together, I feel something, I do not know what the […]
The Grijpstra and de Gier crime novels Janwillen Van De Wetering Soho Press “Outsider in Amsterdam,” 2003 (1975), 290 pp., $13.00 paper “The Blond Baboon,” 1996 (1978), 215 pp., $13.00 paper “The Maine Massacre,” 2003 (1979), 231 pp., $13.00 paper “The Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories,” 2003 (1983–1999), 254 pp., $13.00 paper “Hard Rain,” 2003 (1986), […]
The “Sopranos” star Michael Imperioli is a Buddhist, not a bad guy
The trance of the hunter-gatherer: it is an ancient human joy, in the summer, to sit quietly on a hillside in these mountains of northwest Montana on a cool sunny morning, before the heat of the day is up—or in the late afternoon, as shadows are beginning to return—and to pick berries steadily, sometimes […]
Nicole Daedone thought she wanted a bicycle. What she really wanted was love.
B. Alan Wallace first learned about shamatha meditation in 1972. In “Within You Without You,” Wallace emphasizes the need for this “contemplative technology” in order to fully realize the Buddha’s teachings. The president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, Wallace teaches Buddhist theory and practice worldwide and will soon lead a series of […]
Maps of Enlightenment
Zen poetry is everything you might expect it to be, and less. An interview with Seido Ray Ronci.
Praise to you! Praise to you my snappy love! Praise you in clean socks on a Queens-bound train; praise you for your famous avocado sandwiches. Praise you from Brooklyn to blasphemy! I’ve called the mayor to praise you; & a thirdbase coach; even that no-neck accountant who doesn’t have the decency to […]
To really see each other, we have to bother to look
How multitasking leads to ignorance
On a recent trip to San Francisco, I stopped by the publisher Chronicle Books to visit a friend. I was early, so I popped into their street-level bookstore to browse. Chronicle is known for its high production standards, so I always look forward to seeing their new titles. This time, one in particular caught my […]
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity REBECCA GOLDSTEIN Schocken Books, 2009, 287 pp., $13.95 paper When a friend gave me a copy of “Betraying Spinoza,” by Rebecca Goldstein (no relation), my first thought was that it was a long way from my more usual mystery- and spy-book reading. I opened it cautiously […]
Thich Nhat Hanh answers three questions about our emotions
The evolution of a Buddhist feminist
Cheri Maples gives new meaning to the words “peace officer.”
To fully appreciate poetry, it is often said, we should hear it read aloud. Better yet is hearing it read by the poet. The fiftiethanniversary edition of Gary Snyder’s “Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems” (Count e rpoint , 2009, $24.00 hardcover, 80 pp., with CD) lets us do just that. On the accompanying CD, Snyder […]
Ayya Khema likens the path to a walk through the desert.
A BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT I was inspired by Tricycle’s interview with Ani Choying Drolma, the “singing nun” from Nepal (“Topping the Charts for Freedom,” Fall 2009). Ani Choying chose to transform her own childhood pain into a quest to bring joy to Nepali street children. One of her favorite ways to bring happiness to these children […]
Dharma transmission through poetry and prose
A guided meditation by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
On learning how to enjoy our little human dramas
A cautionary tale from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Three steps to genuine compassion
