portuguêsDharma Magazines
Someone asked me why I wouldn't subscribe to Tricycle magazine. Bottom-line, they are first and foremost journalists, not practitioners. Their refuge is provocative news, not benefit. Sometimes they publish stuff that, on my humble distorted afflictive emotion filtered view, violates precepts. Even so, sometimes there's good things there too.
Dharma Magazines are kind of the core of the Buddhist North-American Spiritual Supermarket. Samsara-dharma, political agitation in a bad sense, some sensationalism. It is both good and bad that it is not connected to any Dharma center, and sometimes the denunciations are valid. But there's also lots of empty polemics, things prepared to stir afflictive emotions, etc. Of course, also lots of good things.
Shambhala Sun would be my choice of "dharma magazine". Even though it is too far from perfect. I would stick with oral teachings, and good well recommended Dharma Books in second place.
BLOGSWhat Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really?
One reason I was looking forward to reading Walter Isaacson's new biography of Steve Jobs was my hope that, as a sharp-eyed reporter, Isaacson would probe to… Exaggeration. People would like for someone hyped as Jobs to be on their side: most Buddhists have a sense of fashion towards their faith. So it is kind of a shame.
VAJRATOOLThe Distortions We Bring To The Study of Buddhism
This excellent article was originally published in the September 1997 edition of Shambhala Sun Magazine. Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse calls on Westerners to…
buddhistdoorBuddhist Artifacts Unearthed From 700-year-old Shipwreck in China
A Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) shipwreck, discovered preserved in the silt and mud of a dried up riverbed in eastern China after more than 700 years, has revealed a trove of ancient treasures, including a Buddhist shrine and other Buddhist artifacts, a recently published report by archaeologists revealed.
Current AffairsCorporate “Mindfulness” Programs Are an Abomination
“When the individualized self bears sole responsibility for its happiness and emotional wellbeing, failure is synonymous with failure of the self, not external conditions.” — Ron Purser
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