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    I Like Trike I continue to be amazed by Tricycle—its intelligence, its emotional impact, and the thread of compassion that weaves through it. I am impressed, delighted, angered and frustrated by Tricycle—and I learn from it. The articles on Yasutani Roshi’s anti-Semitism are notable in this respect. Chogyam Trungpa, speaking on the need for a teacher, said you can learn from a book but a book can’t teach you, the reason for this being that a book will never tell you what you don’t want to hear. I believe this and I’ve cited it often for my students. Yet Tricycle succeeds in getting me to listen—to what I want to hear and to what I don’t. And I learn. Sydney Musai Walter, Sensei Santa Fe, New Mexico As One of the Contributors More »
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    FUNNYBONE DHARMA Not only is the visual design of the Winter 1991 issue of Tricycle very pleasing, but the subject matter is diverse and provocative, a veritable feast of paradox. We are told by Khyentse Rinpoche on page 41 that "To cut through the mind's clinging, it is important to understand that all appearances are void, like the appearance of water in a mirage." And then, in Rick Fields' piece, we are reminded by Bodhidharma that "one who thinks only that everything is void is ignorant of the law of causation." More »
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    Down By Law Regarding the ten-million-dollar lawsuit against Sogyal Rinpoche for sexual abuse [Spring 1995 In the News]: While Sogyal Rinpoche remains innocent until or unless proven guilty, whether or not he is within the ignoble category of teachers who misuse their spiritual authority is a question that has now been overwhelmed by the lawsuit itself. I am sympathetic to the lawsuit for the simple reason that no one seems able to come up with another solution… More »
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    Letters to the Editor - Winter 1993 Paid Member

    No Right, No Wrong (Con't.) I object to Pema Chodron's (Vol. III, No.1) calling the suggestion to publicize the truth about misbehaving teachers "McCarthyism." Joseph McCarthy slandered people, lied about them, unjustly destroyed their reputations, all in the service of his own political ambition and ideology. The spirit behind the recommendation of the conference of Western dharma teachers is the opposite of this. It is simply to tell the truth. Tell the truth, and let the hearers of that truth decide for themselves what to make of it and what to do about it. Telling the truth is what eventually put McCarthy out of business. More »
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    Ether/Or“Barbara Roether’s article [“The Heartbeat Sutra: Chaos Theory, Karma, and other Fluctuations,” Summer 1995] is a disservice both to science and to Buddhism. It is part of a long tradition of forced connections between physics and religion. Theosophists in turn-of-the-century America were inspired in part by the recent discovery of radio waves. They drew upon Maxwell’s old picture of electromagnetic waves traveling in a medium, the “aether” (now known as ether), to justify belief in extrasensory… More »