Buddha Buzz: Dating, Drugs, and Death
First off, Happy Lunar New Year! Welcome to the year of the dragon. As befits such a year celebrating a creature who is often associated with longevity, some Buddhist monks in Japan have a similar concern…
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Tricycle Retreat: Meditation in Motion
This post contains audio, video, or images. View media now Jill Satterfield has taught meditation and yoga exercises in a number of different traditions. For our February Tricycle Retreat, “Meditation in Motion,” which begins on Feburary…
Buddha Buzz: Religious Freedom, Swastikas, and the Giving High
We’re starting off this week’s Buddha Buzz with a pretty clear example of religious intolerance in Hudson, Wisconsin. Don Chering, a Buddhist, put up an American flag and a string of Tibetan prayer flags on the…
Special Karma
This fall a copy of Merry White Benezra’s novel Special Karma: A Zen Novel of Love and Folly arrived in the Tricycle office. The book closely tracks the experiences of the narrator, Iris (modeled on the…
Buddha Buzz: Public Perception: Buddhists, Rapists, and the Karmapa Charged
My week had an…interesting start. Why, you ask? Because of this article: “Atheists About As Trustworthy As Rapists, To The Faithful.” Excuse me, what? From the article: There are seven billion people in the world. Two…
Buddha Buzz: Honesty, Poetry, and Exile
Barbara O’Brien’s post on Tuesday, “Deep Honesty,” made me think about all of honesty’s different forms: honesty as a precept, honesty as a worldview, honesty as a tool for empowerment…and its less welcome forms too, like…
Wise People and Fools, according to the Buddha
“Monks, these two are fools. Which two? The one who doesn’t see his transgression as a transgression, and the one who doesn’t rightfully pardon another who has confessed his transgression. These two are fools. “These two…
Tibetan monks found chanting text by Oxford philosopher
Last week, I blogged about Derek Parfit, an Oxford philosopher featured in a recent issue of The New Yorker. In her article on Parfit, “How to Be Good,” Larissa MacFarquhar writes about the apparent affinity between…
Mahaparinibbana Sutta: Four Places of Pilgrimage
“There are four places, Ananda, that a pious person should visit and look upon with feelings of reverence. What are the four? “‘Here the Tathagata was born!’ [Lumbini] This, Ananda, is a place that a pious…
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