Special Books & Bodhi Issue
Fall 1990 Vol. 07 #1
Fall 1990 Vol. 07 #1
Features
Stephen Mitchell talks about working with Korean Zen master Soen Sa Nim, marriage as practice, and his work as a writer and translator.
Thich Nhat Hanh offers advice to artists: “You have to really be yourself.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Allen Ginsberg chat about rock and roll.
Reviews
Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology, Edited by Allan Hunt Badiner
Reviewed By Reed Hamilton, Patrick McMahon
This short review of Dharma Gaia (265 pp. Parallax Press, 1990) sets the stage for the related “day in the life” essays that follow.
Waging a “holy war” on trash with his fifth-grade students, Patrick McMahon finds reinforcement in the pages of Dharma Gaia.
To Reed Hamilton, reading Dharma Gaia while stuck in a Los Angeles hotel room felt perfectly appropriate.
(267 pp., North Atlantic Press, 1989)
This review is an essay in its own right: part Strozzi-Heckler biography, part memoir, part meditation on spirituality and the military.
(214 pp., Harper & Row, 1989)
Dharma for Children
Reviewed By Ruth Hirsch
Ruth Hirsch presents a collection of classic children’s books that teach values such as patience, wisdom, generosity, loyalty and compassion.
In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations with Spiritual Social Activists, by Catherine Ingram
Reviewed By Perry Garfinkel
(284 pp., Parallax Press, Berkeley, CA., 1990)
(145 pp., Viking Penguin, England, 1990)
(270 pp., Basic Books, 1989)
(308pp., Simon and Schuster, 1989)
Practice
Ajahn Sucitto discusses the effects of our attitudes.
The Dharma & the Drama
Wes Nisker finds crazy-wisdom insights in the works of Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre, Dadaists and Surrealists.