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    Life Or Death Paid Member

    By David Edwards
    The one thing I have never fully understood about many Buddhists is why they devote so much attention to the individual roots of greed, hatred, and ignorance, yet so little attention to the manifestations of these poisons in social institutions. Is it simply understood that the real work needs to be done on our individual failings, with social greed, hatred, and ignorance being someone else’s problem? Or is it that Buddhists, like so many people, have been deceived into believing that political issues are “none of their business”? Have they been trained to see problems and solutions solely in personal rather than political terms? More »
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    Let's Get Lost: Television to meditate to Paid Member

    By Dean Sluyter
    LOST, ABC, Wednesdays, 9/8c View the print version of this article in PDF format LOST ABC Wednesdays, 9/8c A closed eyelid fills the screen. Suddenly it swings wide open, and the pupil, at first dilated, immediately contracts, as if reacting to brilliant light. That's the first shot of the first episode of Lost, ABC's phenomenally successful dramatic series, now in its second season. Several variations of this image recur in later episodes—a tantalizing hint that somehow the show is an allegory of the process of awakening, of opening to the light of awareness. More hints will follow. More »
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    Comic Book Buddha Paid Member

    By Dan Zigmond
    BUDDHA, VOLUMES 7 & 8, by Osamu Tezuka View the print version of this article in PDF format BUDDHA, VOLUME 7: PRINCE AJATASATTU Osamu Tezuka New York: Vertical, Inc., January 2006 420 pp.; $24.95 (cloth)   BUDDHA, VOLUME 8: JETAVANA Osamu Tezuka New York: Vertical, Inc., January 2006 368 pp.; $24.95 (cloth) More »
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    Traveling Man: Off the map, on the path Paid Member

    By Paul W. Morris
    BEYOND THE HOUSE OF THE FALSE LAMA, by George Crane View the print version of this article in PDF format Beyond the House of the False Lama: Travels with Monks, Nomads, and Outlaws George Crane San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005 320 pp.; $24.95 (cloth) More »
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    Sympathy For Schopenhauer: Half of the story Paid Member

    By Andrew Goodwin
    THE SCHOPENHAUER CURE, by Irvin D. Yalom View the print version of this article in PDF format The Schopenhauer Cure Irvin D. Yalom New York: Harper Perennial, January 2006 384 pp.; $13.95 (paper) More »
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    Books in Brief Paid Member

    PERFECT LOVE, IMPERFECT RELATIONSHIPS, by John Welwood; A MARVELOUS GARLAND OF RARE GEMS, by Nyoshul Khenpo; TRUE DHARMA EYE, by John Daido Loori View the print version of this article in PDF format Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the HeartJohn Welwood Boston: Trumpeter, 2006 224 pp.; $19.95 (cloth) More »