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    The Green Lama Paid Member

    By Kendra Crossen Burroughs & Karen Ready
    "I think I'll go home and meditate...on murder!" —The Green Lama in "The Man Who Never Existed" (radio show) The Green Lama, a superhero invented by writer Kendell Foster Crossen, appeared in comic books and pulp magazines and on radio shows during the 1940s. This offbeat character, first created to compete in the pulp market with “The Shadow” (a highly popular pulp and radio character of the 1930s), is a wealthy Harvard graduate named Jethro Dumont who has become a lama after ten years’ study in Tibet. Returning to the West to spread the dharma, he instead decides to bring enlightenment to the wicked world by fighting crime. To this end he deploys mystic powers such as invulnerability, flight, mesmeric skills, and delivering shocks to vital pressure points. More »
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    The Bodhisattvas Play Ball Paid Member

    By Craig Paulenich
    You can’t get them to chase a Texas Leaguer,a cheap flare that drops like a duckon to the lip of green outfield,yet they are compelled by The Diamond.The walls, like our lives, are irregular,yet in form, how perfect. There is no scoreboard. They oil their gloves all winter.Each spring they cover the hole,gracefully turn the double play,above the sliding runner,plant and throw, mid-air.   They embrace the pick-off,the ball released to an empty bag.They have answered the knuckleball’s koan.   No one can play the squeeze like them.Grace under pressure,they come flappingdown the third base line,laughing wildly,spikes high.   More »
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    No Sorrow, No Dust Paid Member

    By Thanissaro Bhikkhu
    Untitled, Buddha, Mihintale, Sri Lanka, Rena Bass FormanAn exhibition of Rena Bass Forman’s Sri Lanka photographs will be at theBonni Benrubi Gallery in New York City from Nov. 29 through Jan. 26, 2008. Comprehending the property of form,not taking a stance in the formless,those released in cessationare people who’ve left death behind. Having touched with his bodythe deathlessproperty freefrom acquisitions,having realized the relinquishingof acquisitions,fermentation-free,the RightlySelf-awakened Oneteaches the statewith no sorrow,no dust. —Itivuttaka 51 Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu© RENA BASS FORMAN, TONED SILVER GELATIN PRINT, 38 x 38 INCHES, 2005   More »
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    On Silence Paid Member

    By Barbara Hurd
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    The Spell-Check Sutra Paid Member

    When “Trungpa” comes up “turnip,” and your “sangha” becomes “sangria,” you know you’re in cyberspace. A secular computer spell-check program, when fed Buddhist words, suggested some English alternatives, offered here with dharma definitions of their own. Arhat: Skt., lit. “worthy one”; one in whom all defilements and passions have been extinguished� More »
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    The Way Paid Member

    By Diana St. Ruth
    Happiness cannot be forced into existence, nor can it be forced out of it, but it can be held in abeyance. This is what we do when we hang on to things and people and ideas in our minds and refuse to let them go. The mind becomes blocked and the way is dammed up. Being alert, observing the movements of the mind and body in daily life, noticing what is taking place—as opposed to what one wishes would take place, or what one fears might take place, or what one grieves over as having already taken place—is a way of life that is completely free of all self-imposed restrictions and conflicting states of mind. Wisdom and compassion will be allowed to function freely under these circumstances. Views, speech, ways of living, mindfulness, and concentration are unhindered by greed, guilt, hatred, carelessness, complacency, and fear when divisions are seen to be arbitrary and there is no sense of “This is me”; “That is you.” More »