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    The Buddha of the future will have six-pack abs Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 04 Mar 2011
    As Chade-Meng Tan points out in his lastest blog post, enlightenment can look good. At least, that's what this first century Gandharan representation of Maitreya, the future Buddha, seems to indicate. Look at those abs! Meng writes: More »
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    Dharma Combat: Roshi vs. Rinpoche Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 03 Mar 2011
    Sometime in the early 1970s, two Buddhist masters met in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of them, Kalu Rinpoche, was a renowned Tibetan meditation master who had spent many years in solitary retreat in the remote mountain caves of Tibet. The other was Seung Sahn, a Korean Zen master who had recently come to the United States and was supporting himself by working in a Providence, Rhode Island, Laundromat, slowly planting the seeds of Zen in the minds of those coming to wash their clothes. At this now famous meeting of enlightened minds, Seung Sahn held up an orange and, in classic Zen dharma combat fashion, demanded, "What is this?" Kalu Rinpoche just looked at him, wonderingly. Again Master Seung Sahn asked, "What is this?" Finally Rinpoche turned to his translator and asked, "Don't they have oranges in Korea?" More »
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    Buddhist Humor Online: Buddhisthumor.org Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 17 Dec 2010
    At an event in the Tricycle office several hundred million years ago, Tricycle editor James Shaheen posed a question to the throngs of devas, nagas, goblins, demons, and bodhisattvas (numbering eighteen million in all) in attendance: "What would you like to see more of in the pages of Tricycle?" From the back of the room, a young man of good family known by some as Lama Surya Das called out bravely, "More humor!" Lo, he was not obliged (or if he was, it was just barely.) Today, billions of years after this auspicious gathering of one hundred and eighty million bodhisattvas and Pratyekabuddhas, longtime Tricycle readers will recall the humorous writings of P. B. Law, who has contributed such pieces as "Bodhisattva in the Rye" and "Winnie-the-Buddhist" over the years. More »
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    Getting something out of your Zen practice Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 08 Nov 2010
    A "Bodhi cartoon" by artist Brian Howlett. More »
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    Boy Believed To Be Next Reincarnation Of Regional KFC Manager Discovered In Chatfield, MN Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 25 Oct 2010
    OK, the institution of reincarnation is officially part of the mainstream imagination—it was in the Onion More »
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    Zen Is Right Here Paid Member

    Posted by Monty McKeever on 19 Oct 2010
    I recently came across the book Zen Is Right Here on one of our bookshelves.  It is a collection of short stories and anecdotes about Zen master Shunryu Suzuki.  The pieces are rarely longer than a paragraph each. Some are quite profound while others are just plain funny.  I started carrying it with me and sneaking quick reads here and there. Here are a few examples, A student asked in dokusan, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?" Suzuki Roshi answered, "It doesn't matter." *** More »