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    Parting Words Paid Member

    By Clark Strand
    Thus have I Heard: When the time had come for Gampopa to part from his teacher Milarepa, Milarepa placed the soles of his feet on the top of Gampopa’s head, symbolizing that their work together was done. As Gampopa was about to depart, however, Milarepa added, “There is one particularly profound teaching I have yet to impart to anyone, but it is too precious to give away just like that, so you may go.” After this, the two embraced and Gampopa went on his way.More »
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    Black Teapot Paid Member

    By Deanna Forbes
    When I say “the black teapot” I’m surprised that everyone knows what I’m talking about. So little of it is black. And yet you and I know which teapot I mean. We’ve agreed to call this thing a black teapot. If you ask me to get the black teapot from the kitchen, chances are I won’t come back empty-handed saying that there was a black teapot until I turned the light on and then it went away. If I were clever I’d turn the light off and grab it while it was still black. But halfway down the hall to your room I’d pass a light and it would no longer be black. More »
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    afterword Paid Member

      GI Joe, the country’s first action hero doll, has been around since 1964. Created by the toy company Hasbro, GI Joe was their answer to the overwhelming success of the Barbie doll, who had debuted a few years earlier. Like Barbie, GI Joe came with all kinds of accessories. In 1971, in the special adventure package “The Search for the Stolen Idol,” he even came with a golden plastic buddha. In this photograph from Derryl DePriest’s book The Collectible GI Joe, we see the hero rescuing the “idol” as a deadly cobra looks on. More »
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    Those of us who track Buddhist references in pop culture took notice when Fox TV’s animated series “King of the Hill” presented an episode this spring in which Bobby Hill, the tubby twelve-year-old scion of Arlen, Texas’s Hill family, is recognized as an incarnate lama. In the episode, a group of lamas who are looking for an incarnation of their teacher show up at a party given by the Hills’ Laotian neighbors. When Bobby Hill picks… More »
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    What Is The Sound Of Ice Melting? Paid Member

    “Respect simple, humble materials.” —Paul Kos What does ice sound like as it melts? It sounds absurd. But it’s not, as Paul Kos demonstrated in his 1970 installation “The Sound of Ice Melting,” based on the famous Zen koan “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” It’s just that any attempt to hear it is inevitably carried to an absurd extreme. More »
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    Loads On The Road Paid Member

    Stu's stubby head tough old yellow dump truckparked by his place            "For Sale"he's fine, but times and people change. Those loads of river-run and crushed blue mime rockin our roadbed            Stu and mestanding talking            engine idlingthose days gone now, days to come. From Danger on Peaks, © 2004 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted with permission of Shoemaker & Hoard. More »