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Tricycle/Winter 2002
Volume 12, Number 2In This Issue
dharma talk
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How do we reconcile our roles as consumers and Buddhist practitioners?
on the cushion
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Q & A on meditation
columns
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A gathering of African-American buddhists.
in memoriam
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An obituary by Sean Murphy and a remembrance by Andrew Schelling
on gardening
sangha spotlight
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A nontraditional Buddhist sangha is building a vision of a more just world, one pagoda at a time.
on parenting
contributors
editors view
feature
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Noelle Oxenhandler offers huge praise for the small word but.
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Trucker Paul Conrad shows how driving can provide opportunities for mindfulness.
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Theravadan monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu traces the roots of Western Buddhism to nineteenth-century Romanticism.
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Katy Butler tells us how the methods of "Nonviolent Communication" can support our practice of Right Speech.
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Robert Coe chats with countercultural performance artist Meredith Monk about compassion, terror, and “the voices within.”
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Living on the edge of a volcano, Leonard Michaels catches a glimpse of the sublime.
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Rick Bass discovers the redemptive power of a frozen landscape.
Sangha Services
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Pariyatti Book Service has been spreading the Theravadan teachings since its inception in a home garage eight years ago.
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A Buddhist audio archive proves that a little dana—and a lot of faith—can go a long way
interview
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Samdhong Rinpoche, the first democratically elected chairman of the Tibetan Cabinet-in-Exile, discusses the challenges of building a Buddhist democracy.
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Vipassana and Zen teacher Gil Fronsdal talks to Tricycle about teaching and practicing in two traditions. Also includes Intolerance to Suffering: A dharma talk by Gil Fronsdal
on practice
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Diagnosed HIV-positive in 1989, Vipassana teacher Gavin Harrison offers some advice on how to confront physical pain.
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An interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Living with the mistaken notion that we should be free of pain, we make matters worse for ourselves.
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When pain becomes just one object among many in our awareness, it loses its power.
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Pain Without Suffering
insights
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Marshall Glickman traces his journey to Zen from his first half-lotus to his encounters with the kyosaku stick to his ultimate discovery of the “cosmic dance."
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As autumn turns to winter; we experience changes in the weather; as well as within ourselves. Three haiku capture the transmigrations of the season.
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Is what we are yearning for already inside of us?
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We may think meditation will improve us, but it’s really about accepting ourselves as we are right now.
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Stephen J. Fortunato, Jr., is an associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. He writes here on how he brings his Buddhist practice to his responsibilities as a trial judge.
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A Thai prison reforms prisoners on a vegetarian diet, chanting, and the teachings of S. N. Goenka.
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Rooted in ancient Taoist and Ch’an Buddhist thought, China’s “rivers-and-mountains” poetry represents one of the earliest encounters between wilderness and literature.
reviews
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Peter Alsop speaks with Allan Hunt Badiner
my view
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The bodhisattva ideal begins with the smallest acts.
parting words
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P’u-hua Departs to the Sky
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