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Green Meditation: Recover Your Natural Balance

Do you get enough sleep? Former Zen monk Clark Strand would probably argue that you don’t—and that people haven’t since the invention of the light bulb. With his 4-part video teaching on "green meditation" Strand takes us back to the way we were meant to sleep and shows us how. Audio Q&A and discussion forum. (Mar. 2010) Not yet a Sustaining Member? Sign up here.

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Sunday 14 March 2010

Clark Strand wrote about a Green Meditation retreat in the Spring 2010 Tricycle, and gave practical advice for how one might go about it. Week 3 of his online retreat begins tomorrow. Catch up on Week 2 here.

Gelek Rimpoche, who has been very generous with his time on these retreats, commented on the "little pinch" generosity should make you feel in the current issue of Tricycle.

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Gelek Rimpoche Week 6: Irritation is everywhere, but make sure irritation doesn't take you over and become anger. #retreats http://3.ly/H33e
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Vol. 19, No. 3

in this issue

  • By Sean Murphy
    If anyone will be remembered as a major ancestor of Zen in America, it will be John Daido Loori Roshi, who died on October 9, 2009, of lung cancer. Born in Jersey City, in 1931, into a working-class Catholic family, he was by nature a freethinker and a rebel.
  • When you are practicing generosity, you should feel a little pinch when you give something away. That pinch is your stinginess protesting. If you give away your old, worn-out coat that you wouldn’t be caught dead wearing, that is not generosity.
  • By Monty McKeever and Michaela Haas
    When Cyclone Nargis hit Burma in May 2008, it took the lives of nearly 150,000 people and left at least a million homeless. While relief organizations waited at the country’s borders to deliver aid, the Foundation for the People of Burma (FPB) was already there.
  • By Noa Jones
    Curd. It’s not a pretty word. It brings to mind tea accidents, milk slipped into lemon infusion, coagulation, spoilage, and mysterious nursery rhymes involving innocent girls and dangling spiders.
  • By Clark Strand
    Look up into the sky on a starry night and you will see that there is a lot of darkness in the universe and very little light. So great is the invisible counterweight of darkness, in fact, that we think nothing of chipping away a bit of it in order to make a little something more for ourselves...

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  • Over the past few years, Tricycle has featured a number of articles about Jodo Shinshu, or Shin Buddhism, which developed from the insight of Shinran (1173-1263), a Japanese monk that Rev. Dr. Alfred Bloom calls a "towering figure" in Buddhism. Read the articles below to get a sense of Shinran and his teachings, and the modern practice of Jodo Shinshu.
  • By Thich Nhat Hanh
    In Master Linji's time, some Buddhist terms were used so often they became meaningless. People chewed on terms like “liberation” and “enlightenment” until they lost their power. It’s no different today.
  • By Barry Evans
    I tell Kyodo Roshi I want to take my practice to a deeper level. "Deeper level?" He laughs again. "What do you mean, 'deeper'? Zen practice only one level. No deep, understand?"
  • The idea of sunyata (Pali sunnata) or emptiness has been variously understood—and misunderstood—for centuries.

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Here’s a review of Stephen Batchelor’s Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. Since publishing his best-selling Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen has become somewhat controversial in Buddhist circles for his Western approach to the Buddha’s teachings. Stephen points out, however, that “the great strength of Buddhism throughout its history is that it has succeeded many times in reinventing [...]
A monk in Japan allegedly sets his temple on fire to collect on insurance money. Well, Dogen does say that, “A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.”
Using stronger words than he usually does, the Dalai Lama accused Beijing of persecuting monastics in Chinese-occupied Tibet: “They are putting the monks and nuns in prison-like conditions, depriving them the opportunity to study and practice in peace,” he said, accusing Chinese of working to “deliberately annihilate Buddhism.” The Dalai Lama’s remarks reflect frequent complaints by Tibetan [...]
Michael Wenger has practiced Zen since 1972 and he was gracious enough to run a Discussion during Tricycle’s 90-day online ango, The Big Sit. Now he has a blog with his wonderful ink drawings, called inklings. You won’t be disappointed if you stop by. Below is a drawing of his from a post called “zen what [...]
The excellent podcast outfit known as Buddhist Geeks has been reborn with a new website and online magazine! Check it out here. Best of luck to Vince and Emily!
A very rare and very small flower grew under a nun’s washing machine in China.

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