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Tricycle/Spring 2002
Volume 11, Number 3In This Issue
feature
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Interview: Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche explores the nature of emptiness, the role of the teacher, and the unique challenges of teaching in the West. -
After a harrowing escape from Chinese-controlled Tibet two years ago, Ugyen Trinley Dorje, the fifteen-year-old Karmapa, walked into the bright glare of the world stage. Journalist Swati Chopra profiles a leader-in-the-making. -
How a Zen-friendly psychologist revolutionized the treatment of patients once thought hopeless. -
Four Buddhists grapple with the precept of non-killing. A roundtable discussion with Lama Surya Das, Jan Chozen Bays, José Cabezón, and Thanissaro Bhikkhu -
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In the Raymond Chandler mystery novels of the forties and fifties, Noah Buschel discovers a true American bodhisattva. -
Neil Gordon ponders the hard truth of parenting: To love our children is to lose them again and again, in every passing moment. -
An interview with poet and activist Anne Waldman. -
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Sam Hamill learns to seek what the masters sought. -
Chase Twichell finds a new and hard-won freedom. -
Jane Hirshfield realizes that only by losing oneself can one discover one's true destination. -
addendum to 'War or Peace' article
ancestors
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Soen Nakagawa Roshi (1907-1984) figured greatly in the transmission of Zen to the West. In the wild antics of this late teacher, Sean Murphy finds wisdom and a mischievous heart.
on gardening
columns
my view
contributors
dharma talk
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Can we be present to each moment of our lives? Soko Morinaga Roshi teaches us a liberating presence in play.
editors view
on practice
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Wes Nisker learns the wisdom of fear. -
Ken McLeod disassembles the components of fear. -
Amaro Bhikkhu guides us through a meditation on fear and teaches us to tame it with attention.
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John Daido Loori Roshi walks the difficult path between fear of living and fear of dying. -
Haven't we always been afraid? So now we know it. Ezra Bayda walks us through age-old fear and shows us what it really is.
reviews
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'Ten New Songs' by Leonard Cohen












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