Tricycle/Winter 2001
Volume 11, Number 2In This Issue
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Letters From Kathmandu -
on practice
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Turning to practice, Thanissaro Bhikkhu brings us back to the only refuge there is.
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Living in a "god realm" of privilege and affluence, Americans awoke to the world's harsher realities on September 11. Judith L. Lief guides us beyond the anger that followed.
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Clark Strand uses biblical text as koan to bring us to a unique understanding of faith.
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Questioning conventional Buddhist practices, Stephen Batchelor grapples with the sometimes troubling virtue of nonviolence.
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Lama Palden provides us with spiritual tools to open to the wisdom and compassion within us all.
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Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek exhorts us to let go of anger and take charge of our minds.
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Vietnamese monk, peace activist, and poet Thich Nhat Hanh speaks to Tricycle of the blessings that suffering can provide.
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Buddhists respond to terrorism.
on gardening
on parenting
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Listening to the din outside his window, William R. Stimson leaves himself behind.
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Robert Hirschfield tunes in to the ambiguity of silence in an émigré community.
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What is it like to be a translator for a Tibetan lama? Anne C. Klein reveals the source of the language magic.
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In a land of opportunity and opptimism, of new deals and raw deals, who or what can you trust?
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Can a "fat, old, dreadlocked blacklady poet" teach sonnets and silence to twenty-eight West Point cadets? Yes ma'am.
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An interview with Bernie Glassman.
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reviews
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An interview with Tibetan teacher Thubten Chodron and an excerpt from her new book.
contributors
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In the space between past and future, having and losing, knowing and not knowing, lies an opportunity for awakening.
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Relaxing into uncertainty, as Francesca Freemantle tells us, is to open to hidden possibilities.
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Pema Chodron points to the perfect training ground for the spiritual warrior—anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness.
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In between jobs, John House reacquaints himself with the weather, his garden, and the risk of being left to his own devices.
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As extinction pushes species into the past, humans must decide how to pull them back into the future.
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Restless, her mind shifting from one thought to another, Judith Simmer-Brown lets go, and sees through the nature of insomnia.
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Sogyal Rinpoche illuminates the wisdom of confusion.
Latest Comments in this Issue
To Jennifer Wilson: yes, that is a Zen koan... And the title of one of Suzuki Roshi's books.
In the quote used above and recouped below for reference, isn't "not only so" three words? Wondering if I am missing...
I´ve practiced vipassana for more than 20 years, and I've never heard anyone get to the point of what's most...
Thank you Lama Palden....practicing Tonglen truly helps... _/\_