Trish Deitch Rohrer visits Montague Farm, where Roshi Bernie Glassman is launching his newest venture, the Maezumi Institute. Through his many incarnations—from engineer to social activist to peacemaker to clown—Glassman has faced the question: Is this Zen? When Zen master Bernie Tetsugen Glassman was a little boy in the 1940’s, he went out for a meal with his family [...]
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Letting It Really Sink In
Advice from four prominent Buddhist teachers on opening up to the dharma so it really changes your life. Trish Deitch Rohrer interviews Judy Lief, The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, John Tarrant, and Philip Moffitt. They say it’s as difficult for the dharma to penetrate the heart of a student as it is for a flower to grow on a rock. It’s not that we can’t intellectually grasp the [...]
Khandro Rinpoche’s Tough Love
She is demanding of her students and uncompromising about the dharma, and she is a rarity—a prominent Tibetan teacher who is a woman. Trish Deitch Rohrer experiences the provocative and challenging Khandro Rinpoche. You took your twelve-year-old daughter to a children’s blessing the Venerable Khandro Rinpoche was presiding over a few years ago while on a visit to New York from [...]
To Love Abundantly: Sharon Salzberg’s Journey on the Path
How Sharon Salzberg found loving-kindness in the darkest of times. In 1971, a few days before eighteen-year-old Sharon Salzberg was meant to leave for India on an independent study project from State University at Buffalo where she was a student, she heard Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was giving a talk in town, and she went to see him. After his talk, [...]
Richard Gere Knows What Counts
Richard Gere sees his work for the Tibetan community in India as part of his practice on the Buddhist path. "The way to freedom is working through this," he says. Two years ago, a four-year-old boy was left at the offices of an HIV care and prevention organization in New Delhi called Naz. Both of the boy's parents had died from AIDS, it turned out, and the boy was infected. [...]
