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    Contributors Summer 2002 Paid Member

    “I don't subscribe to the sentimental belief that 'children are little Zen masters,’” says Contributing Editor Clark Strand, who wrote this issue’s “On Parenting” column, “but I will concede that they often speak the truth. In that respect they may be superior to the Buddhist teachers who tell us we can become enlightened by following a monastic-style meditation program, all the while trying to raise families and hold down a job.” Strand is a former Zen monk and founder of the Koans of the Bible Study Group in Woodstock, New York, where he lives with his wife and two children. More »
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    Contributors Fall 2001 Paid Member

    Noelle Oxenhandler, who wonders just when and how her practice path opened up, tells us: “For me, writing this essay was like that wonderful children’s story Harold and the Purple Crayon. It was as though I discovered the purple crayon with which I could draw my way out of a painfully confining place. It was frightening at first; I almost said 'No’ when the editors asked me to write it. What if I couldn’t find the window? Now I’m grateful to have been handed the purple crayon.” More »
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    Charles Johnson won the 1990 National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage. He has written three other novels, a collection of short stories, numerous critical books and reviews, and is a published cartoonist. His next book, King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Viking Studio, 2000) will be published in November. More »
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    Contributors Winter 2004 Paid Member

    Andrew Schelling (“Rucksack Poetry,”) tells us: “As a poet who is continually indebted to Asia, I’ve been a longtime watcher and writer of haiku. Surely the most recognizable form of poetry on our continent, haiku also seems the most Zen of art forms. Is it a form of poetry or a state of mind? I think a bit of both. As I started to track its arrival here, Haiku America emerged as a personality, a character full of painful karma and complex beauties. In fifty years it’s become native—wise and tricky—a raven, a jackrabbit, or a coyote on the median strip of the highway.” More »
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    Contributors Fall 2004 Paid Member

    Amy Schmidt’s article on practicing with trauma, coauthored with Dr. John J. Miller, appears here. She tells us, “Like many trauma survivors, I spent lots of time believing that I was a hopeless yogi because I couldn’t get beyond the emotional turmoil. When I became the resident teacher at Insight Meditation Society, I was able to see behind the scenes of retreats, and I realized there were others working with trauma in their meditation practice. We wrote this article so that meditators with trauma histories can realize they aren’t alone. Also, I believe such meditators have special needs in terms of practices, and I feel it’s important that students and teachers alike are aware of these needs.” More »
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    Contributors Summer 2004 Paid Member

    Tricycle editor-at-large Joan Duncan Oliver mined her own compulsions for “Drink and a Man” (page 67), a first-person essay in the special section “The Riddle of Desire.” “I wish I’d read Mu Soeng’s new book, Trust in Mind, before I sat down to write,” she says, referring to the Buddhist scholar’s latest title (review in this issue). “He really goes to the heart of the Buddha’s teachings on craving when he describes addiction as 'being willing to defend [our] preferential choices at the cost of our deeper experience.’ Happily, I was able to pursue this topic with Mu Soeng in an interview for this issue.” More »