Winter 2017

Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

MANY BUDDHISTS, ONE BUDDHADHARMA

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Contributors
ANN GLEIG is an assistant professor of religion and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida. In April 2017 she received the University Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. She completed her PhD in religious studies at Rice Univer
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The Deep River of Dharma
Buddhism is like a great river. It is, as an old blues song says, “long, deep, and wide.” The river of dharma has been flowing for a long time: 2,600 years from one point of view, forever from another. Those of us who care about Buddhism’s future in
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Ask The Teachers
REBECCA LI: As an antidote to the pernicious arrogance that gives rise to thoughts like “I’m doing something so selfless— aren’t I great?” we can practice gratitude for the opportunity to serve. In particular, we can be grateful for all of the causes
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The Shifting Landscape of Buddhism in America
IN 2011, MORE THAN two hundred Buddhist teachers, mostly American, gathered at the Garrison Institute in upstate New York to discuss the state of Buddhism in the West. Organized by firstgeneration American baby boomer teachers such as Lama Surya Das
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The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: A New Translation by Christopher Stagg
Milarepa (ca 1051–ca 1135), Tibet’s great singing yogi, is arguably the most renowned figure in Tibetan culture, the quintessential Tibetan folk hero. Milarepa committed grave crimes at an early age, then later had a radical change of heart. He sough
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What If Our Delusions Aren’t a Barrier to Enlightenment?
IF YOUR INABILITY to cut off ceaseless thought has ever left you feeling hopeless or inadequate, you’re not alone. Anyone who has practiced earnestly for any length of time has likely wrestled with the thinking mind, motivated by a desire to evolve a
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Forum: Understanding Dukkha
THE POWER AND unpredictability of sudden suffering has been dramatically illustrated around the world recently—three terrible hurricanes on the East Coast, refugees pouring out of Burma and Syria, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. It would
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Integrating Yogacara in Your Practice
BUDDHIST PRACTITIONERS are all too familiar with the ups and downs of meditative experience, but most have no idea why certain experiences occur while others never happen. When our practice hits a low point, we don’t know how to pull ourselves out. A
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A Woman of Zen
CASE 24, BLUE CLIFF RECORD Iron Grindstone Liu went to Guishan. Might as well gather together, touching the difficult. Playing her part, this experienced old woman does not play by the rules. Shan said, “Old cow, you’ve come!” Point—search the grass
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Buddhism and Sexuality: It’s Complicated
Wisdom Publications, 2017, 632 pages; $39.95 Decades in the making, José Ignacio Cabezón’s Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism is a massive, ambitious, and important project. Given its in-depth investigation of the subject, and Cabezón’s stat
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What the Animals Taught
Oxford University Press, 2017 264 pages; $35 In his great poem, “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman reflects: I think I could turn and live with animals,they are so placid and self-contain’d,I stand and look at them long and long.They do not sweat and whi
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Book Briefs
Shozan Jack Haubner’s SINGLE WHITE MONK (Shambhala 2017) is self-deprecating, blunt, humorous, and profoundly troubling. Haubner was a close disciple of the Zen teacher Joshu Sasaki, whose reputation crumbled when his long history of sexually abusing
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Buddhist Directory
AGAINST THE STREAM BUDDHIST MEDITATION SOCIETY 4300 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029. (323) 665-4300, Fax: (323) 665- 4404, service@againstthestream.org, www.againstthestream.org • Founded by Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx, Against The Stream h

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