Suffering and the End of Suffering
Spring 2001 Vol. 17 #2
Spring 2001 Vol. 17 #2
Introduction
The editors give an overview of our Spring 2001 issue.
Features
Quotations about suffering taken from various books of the Pali Canon, selected for us by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche offers us a Tibetan Buddhist point of view on dukkha, along with practices for healing and transforming emotional suffering.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu offers a traditional Theravadan perspective, contrasting the two primary ways in which the Buddha discusses dukkha: in the Four Noble Truths and the three characteristics.
Bringing things back to the personal, Susan Moon looks back on her struggle with depression.
A System of Suffering
By Alan Senauke, Barbara Gates, Dennis Crean, Diana Winston, Santikaro, Wes Nisker
Engaged Buddhist Santikaro Bhikkhu, Buddhist Peace Fellowship director Alan Senauke and associate director Diana Winston join us to discuss the suffering caused by the systems we create in society.
Stories We Have Yet to Hear: The Path to Healing Racism in American Sanghas
By Patricia Mushim Ikeda
Patricia Mushim Ikeda explores how the telling of our stories can help heal the racial divides that separate us from one another.
Vipassana teacher and therapist Tara Brach examines a contemporary affliction experienced by many of us—the “trance of unworthiness.”
Jusan Kainei lambasts the author of “Rhubarb,” and Ed Brown gives a “tart” response.
Poems & Not Poems
Fred Moramaco’s poem originally ran as a sidebar to Ed Brown’s “Rhubarb.”
Reviews
Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Following the Buddha’s Path, by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Reviewed By Ginny Morgan
(288 pp., Wisdom Publications, 2001)
Swallowing the River Ganges: A Practice Guide to the Path of Purification, by Matthew Flickstein
Reviewed By Ginny Morgan
(224 pp., Wisdom Publications, 2001)
(201 pp., Quest Books, 1999)
Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts, by Reb Anderson
Reviewed By Judith Stronach
(232 pp., Rodmell Press, 2000)
Practice
Zen teacher Maylie Scott offers practical advice on responding to the suffering we encounter every day when we read the paper or watch the TV news.
The Dharma & the Drama
Wes Nisker muses on why Buddhism is well-suited to his generation’s “particular brand of confusion.”