Fall 2003

The 10th annual change your mind day

Walk in the Buddha’s footsteps in the ancient Indian city of Rajgir.

Monks and gangsters come together to receive the blessings of a spiritual prophylaxis: Buddhist tattoos.

A reader from Woodstock, New York, writes: “Is it possible to have a meaningful meditation practice in the absence of a living teacher?”

Dragonflies stitch together the visible and invisible realms

"Come as you are” to the last frontier of American Buddhism.

Get the body of a bhikkhu - or your alms back.

Author Aldous Huxley played an early and instrumental role in popularizing buddhism in the west. but what was his view of buddhism? and what does it offer buddhists today? Dana Sawyer reports.

Travel the river of the mind to the vast ocean

Should we take the buddha at his word? Larry Rosenberg encourages us to put the teachings to the test.

Stephen Batchelor interviews Don Cupitt

Zen and Poetry

Anne Cushman bears witness to a sangha fractured by its teacher’s flaws.

In a world of transience, is conservation just another form of attachment?

The ancient Japanese mealtime art of oryoki reveals the patterns and sticking points of our minds.

A new mother struggles with self-sacrifice.

In this special section, put together by Tricycle contributing editor Mark Magill, meditations by Frank Ostaseski, founder of the Zen Hospice Project, lead us through the four stages of the grieving process. In an interview, Gehlek Rimpoche talks about losing his homeland, and the power of appreciation in coping with loss. Authors Barbara Hurd, Mark Matousek, Noelle Oxenhandler, and Martha Beck offer their personal reflections on facing loss, mourning, letting go, and moving on. Finally, Lama Surya Das provides some tips on practicing with loss, while throughout, Andy Goldsworthy’s artwork bears witness to a world of creation and dissolution.