Winter 2022

Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

MANY BUDDHISTS, ONE BUDDHADHARMA

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Buddhadharma
MELVIN MCLEOD | Editor-in-chief KOUN FRANZ | Editor SETH LEVINSON | Art Director JOIE SZU-CHIAO CHEN | Reviews Editor MARIANA RESTREPO | Associate Editor MIHIRI TILLAKARATNE | Associate Editor NOEL ALUMIT | Associate Editor PAMELA AYO YETUNDE | Assoc
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Contributors
VENERABLE PANNAVATI BHIKKHUNI is founder of Heartwood Refuge, an intentional spiritual community in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and abbot of Embracing Simplicity Hermitage, a twenty-first–century trans-lineage Buddhist order. She has received ord
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Thank You
:: EXPERTISE Abacus Wealth, Astrology Now, Bari Tessler, Buddhist Astrology, Deborah Young, Maggie Kelly, Michael Carroll, Pico Iyer, Tarot by Tashi, The Pigeon’s Heart:: DIGITAL & AUDIO Alex Cline:: BOOKS & PRINT Amber Lotus, Cheryl Wilfong, Karma C
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Abortion, the Legal System, and Skillful Means
IN JULY 2022, seven clergy of various faiths in Miami-Dade County filed lawsuits against the State of Florida seeking to invalidate House Bill 5 (HB 5), the Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality Act. HB 5 prevents women and girls from having autonomy o
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Ask The Teachers
MYOZEN JOAN AMARAL: Yesterday, my friend Ivana and I were celebrating Central American Independence Day. Among many other things, she is Honduran, and spiritual, and actually also latently religious. She has just begun sitting zazen with the sangha,
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The Practice of No Practice
I am such that I do not know right and wrongAnd cannot distinguish false and true;I lack even small love and small compassion,And yet, for fame and profit, enjoy teaching others.—The Collected Works of Shinran WHILE AT FIRST GLANCE this might not see
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How Do We Cultivate Dharma Teachers?
IT IS SAID THAT after Siddhartha Gautama realized enlightenment, his first impulse was to teach others how to achieve liberation. But after contemplating his initial enthusiasm for sharing what he had learned and who he had become, he became burdened
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Panelists
PAMELA AYO YETUNDE: In your tradition, what is leadership? What does it look like? MYOKEI CAINE-BARRETT: One thing I think about is the role of being the example, the one who is first to try to follow the teachings and to live up to the bodhisattva v
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Affinity Sanghas And The Practice Of Refuge
I want to practice with people like myself. I feel comfortable around nappy hair and locks. Accented voices are soothing to me. Looking around at brown and yellow faces, I feel at home…In most of my environments—work, school, and social—I am the only
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Lucidity Without Limit
ONE NIGHT, many years ago, I dreamed a snake was in my mouth. I pulled it out and found it was dead. It was quite unpleasant. An ambulance arrived at my house. The paramedics told me the snake was poisonous and that I was dying. I said, “Okay.” They
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The Dakini in Your Dreams
THE MOTHER TANTRA teaches that a dakini is the protector and guardian of sacred sleep. It is helpful to make a connection with her essence, which is also the nature of the practice, so she can guide and bless the transition from unconscious to consci
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Translation, Transmission, And The Act Of Surrender
WE ALL HAVE different reasons and motivations that fueled our search for “something else,” leading us to look outside the familiar. But as Western practitioners of the buddhadharma, most of us probably found our way to Buddhism in a similar manner: t
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Digesting the Dharma
I wish I could tell you that my love of language—of transferring the sense and heft and lushness of one tongue to another—rose unbidden, ripe, and startling, like a Botticelli goddess emerging from a sea. ¡Ay, cuanto lo deseo! A better storyteller th
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Voice of Tibet: Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari
THE DALAI LAMA fled Tibet sixty-three years ago, after China’s invasion of his country. He’s been trying to return ever since. During that more than half a century of exile, the Dalai Lama entrusted one individual to speak officially to the People’s
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Book Briefs
WE CALL SHAKYAMUNI the “historical Buddha,” yet mostly treat him as a quasi-mythic figure who transcends time and space, whose actual existence on our planet is but a faint memory. Xinru Liu, a historian of ancient India, would beg to differ. In Earl
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Buddhist Directory
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Turning Word
Arising from stillness, carry out activities without hesitation. This moment is the koan. When practice and realization are without complexity, then the koan is this present moment. That which is before any trace arises, the scenery on the other side

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