MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
A Refuge into Being
Q & A on meditation
Koans
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
Questioning The Question
Three contemporary voices address an age-old theme.
Yasutani Roshi: The Hardest Koan
Brian Victoria uncovers the wartime anti-Semitism of one of America’s most seminal Zen masters. Responses to this material from: Robert Aitken, Bernie Glassman, Bodhin Kjolhede, and Lawrence Shainberg
The Koans of Yogi Berra
Discovered inside a catcher’s mitt in the year 2087 by archaeologists while excavating rubble in the abandoned Yankee Stadium in the Bronx: KOAN 1: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”Commentary: Yogi…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Buddha’s Robe
I am sewing my first rakusu—the rectangular bib-like garment that is worn by Zen Buddhists. It is formally conferred during jukai, the ceremony of taking refuge in the Buddha and receiving the precepts. Unlike many people…
Still Speaking
A vital link in the westward transmission of the dharma, Dwight Goddard’s A Buddhist Bible is about to be republished this spring by Beacon Press. Originally printed more than sixty years ago, it was the first…
Birds of Paradox
THE LATE KARMAPA loved birds. Westerners called the regal guru “the St. Francis of Tibet,” for he was often seen at his monastery in Bhutan with birds perched on his shoulders or eating from his hand.…
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