Seek a deeper understanding of the fundamental and enduring questions that have been raised by thoughtful human beings in the rich traditions of the East.
Tricycle/Spring 2004
Volume 13, Number 3In This Issue
ancestors
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An unorthodox lama brings the dharma west. -
dharma talk
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Why you can't have your cake and enlightenment, too. Thanissaro Bhikkhu explains why we don't have to be slaves to our desires.
on practice
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Three simple questions form the basis of an increasingly popular practice: What have you recieved? What have you given? How have you harmed?
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interview
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An Interview With Dipa Ma
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An interview with Jack Engler
in memoriam
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Tricycle speaks with Joseph Goldstein about his late teacher
special section
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An interview with Buddhist activist and former prisoner Fleet Maull
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What if your thoughts are too painful to bear?
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Creating sangha behind bars
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A Buddhist prison chaplain keeps showing up
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Imprisoned for more than twenty years, Ani Pachen Dolma drew on her single-minded devotion to the dharma to help her endure years of torture, forced labor, and near-starvation in Chinese work camps.
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Are the goals of the prison dharma movement misguided? Kobutsu Malone spent eight years running a Zen practice group in Sing Sing Prison, widely regarded as the most dangerous maximum security prison in New York State.
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In confinement, what happens to the self?
contributors
editors view
insights
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“To have fun and to do no harm.” Isn’t that enough? Garret Keizer reflects on the pleasures and perils of living in the moment.
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Grab a loofah and prepare for the afterlife! Here are some tips from the Buddha on bathing yourself—and others.
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Poet Shin Yu Pai traces the innuendoes of a post-zazen tea service.
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In the woods at three in the morning, bowing acquires new significance.
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Should you eat that second piece of chocolate cake? It all depends . . .
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While living in Japan, spiritual seeker, author, and entrepreneur William Segal sent this aerogram to his wife in New York City to illustrate his experience with the kyosaku stick, or “Zen stick.”
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What Buddhists called a problem, Christians called a solution.
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For Korean poet Ok-koo Kang Grosjean, translating poetry is a journey toward the unknown, and impermanence is the path.
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sangha spotlight
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Practitioners at two Ohio sanghas learn how to be one another's teachers
my view
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Might a two-mile strip of sex, money, and power be part of the true path to an American enlightenment?
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Horsing around with His Holiness
general
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A man stumbles upon the First Noble Truth of suffering
on gardening
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Does a filth fly maggot have Buddha-nature?
on location
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Buddhism in Hong Kong
practical pilgrim
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A visit to Lumbini, birthplace of the Buddha
reviews
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Getting out of the Matrix
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A milestone in Buddhist fiction
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Buddhist gender wars
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The dharma comes to America
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How To Speak Tibetan In Forty-One Not-So-Easy Lessons
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Art as a tool of Buddhist practice
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Khyentse Norbu, director and lama, on both sides of the lens
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