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    Why we fight online Paid Member

    Posted by James Shaheen on 20 Sep 2010
    Some time ago Tricycle published an article that caused more grief than we could have imagined. The premise was that online discourse is afflicted with the "disinhibition effect," which enables people to say things and do things they would not ordinarily say or do in face-to-face encounters. The author took Buddhist bloggers in particular to task, raising a firestorm of protest that included accusations of shoddy reporting and poor editorial choices on my part. More »
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    Take a virtual tour of Coyote Man's home Paid Member

    Posted by Rachel on 13 Sep 2010
    If you've ever picked up a copy of Tricycle you've probably seen Coyote Man, artist Neal Crosbie's recurring coyote cartoon. Over the years we've followed Coyote Man past pine trees, up Mt. Fuji, over land on horseback and on foot, and even onto the face of a dollar bill. Now we can track him from the moment of creation---in Crosbie's California studio. The ink painter's website now offers a virtual tour of Coyote Man's home, check out the video here here. As for Coyote Man's creator, here's the news from his neck of the woods: Lately besides painting pictures of clouds and pine trees, I've been singing songs which are unsteady and short. More »
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    At last, an interview with Aqua Buddha Paid Member

    Posted by Rachel on 16 Aug 2010
    There's quite a bit of intrigue surrounding Aqua Buddha—a deity that Rand Paul, a GOP senate hopeful, forced a young woman to worship during a bizarre hazing ceremony that took place while Rand was a college student in the early 1980s. While many have focused on the kidnapping and drug portions of the story that first appeared in GQ, MSNBC news anchor Keith Olbermann was determined to find out more about who and what Aqua Buddha is. Olbermann was able to snag an exclusive interview with Aqua Buddha and recently sat down with the deity (via Skype, apparently Aqua Buddha couldn't make it to the MSNBC studio) to set the record straight. More »
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    Get Fuzzy on Meditation Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 13 Aug 2010
    Get Fuzzy is a comic strip by Darby Conley. Even though Bucky B. Katt is Not... Quite... There... yet (and there are some popular misconceptions about meditation on display here), I like the cat's notion of peace in pieces. © Darby Conley More »
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    Therapy, Meditation, and Buddhist Humor Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 11 Aug 2010
    Last week, Daphne Merkin wrote an excellent personal essay, entitled “My Life in Therapy,” about her varied experiences as a patient within the therapeutic establishment (lasting over 40 years!), that appeared in The New York Times Magazine. The piece is entertaining, thoughtful, and, not surprisingly, painfully “self-aware.” From the piece: I learned, that is, to construct an ongoing narrative of the self, composed of what the psychoanalyst Robert Stoller calls “microdots” (“the consciously experienced moments selected from the whole and arranged to present a point of view”), one that might have been more or less cohesive than my actual self but that at any rate was supposed to illuminate puzzling behavior and onerous symptoms—my beh More »