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On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, a psychologist who volunteered to help survivors in Thailand recalls her staggering confrontation with death and considers how a Buddhist country coped with the truth of impermanence.
This image came to us via a friend on twitter. We’re not sure of the story behind it but I find it to be quite moving. Ways to help Japan:American Humane AssociationAmericaresDoctors Without BordersInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (*you can also […]
We just receiving word on some inspiring activities in Los Angeles from an old friend of Tricycle: The Buddhist Temple of San Diego (Nishi Honganji) just did a big public memorial service on March 13, it was reported on by the local media. The Buddhist Churches of America are collecting donations, they’re at http://www.bcahq.org Here’s […]
We sit everyday. Sometimes we go on retreats. We’re practicing to become better people—wiser, more generous, happier people—but, for many of us, doubt lingers. Does the practice work? In a post on her blog, author and vipassana practitioner Mirka Knaster writes about how she responded recently to a tsunami alert near her home in California. […]
Even with the vast amount of information available to us through the media and internet, the amount of destruction, death, and suffering that is a result of the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear catastrophe in Japan is hard to comprehend. It is enough to make the brain of any person with a capacity for empathy […]
via the New York Times, TOKYO — An earthquake of 8.9. magnitude struck off the coast of Japan on Friday, the strongest ever recorded in the country. The quake churned up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland in the northern part of the country and set off warnings as far away the […]
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