Tricycle/Spring 1999

Volume 8, Number 3

In This Issue

columns

parting words

special section

  • Views of the third step of the Eightfold Path from: Susan Piver Browne, Mirabai Bush, Roger Jackson, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Mudita Nisker, and Stephen Smith

dharma talk

in the news

feature

  • PATRICIA ANDERSON on whether Buddhist deities are there because of our beliefs or if they are really there
  • Dharma teacher RALPH STEELE’s journey from speaking Gullah as a child in the South to the teachings of the Pali Canon
    Ralph Steele
  • Fitness expert MICHAEL HOFFMAN explains how your workout can be as serious a practice as sitting on your cushion
  • A dialogue between French man of letters and philosopher JEAN-FRANCOIS REVEL and MATTHIEU RICARD, Tibetan monk - and his son
  • WILLIAM S. COBB analyzes how the ancient game of Go is an unexpected path to enlightenment
  • ALLAN BAILLE and SUZANNE OSTRO unfold the mysteries, history, and poetry surrounding one of Buddhism’s most revered symbols

from the archives

  • Tracy Cochran goes on a Thich Nhat Hanh retreat with her daughter and discovers her very own Zen teacher

interview

  • An interview with Robert Aitken Roshi, American Zen elder, on fifty years of Zen practice