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Secular Buddhism and the Quest for a Lived Ethics

Phil Wolfson
Tikkun (2014) 29 (1): 40–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2394470
Published: 01 January 2014
... has experienced many schisms, yielded three major branches, and produced many different schools. Its original core affirmation was that eliminating in-the-moment craving/attachment to virtually any object we fasten upon leads to freedom of mind and freedom from affliction. In other words, eliminating...
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Salma Arastu (salmaarastu.com). / A social-spiritual way of seeing takes into account our deep craving for the love and recognition of other human beings. In this painting, Reaching Out by Salma Arastu, a woman extends her hands to as many children as she can hold. “If we all reach out and share our love and compassion among all, that will lighten the burden of souls,” Arastu writes.

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Published: 01 April 2013
Salma Arastu ( salmaarastu.com ) A social-spiritual way of seeing takes into account our deep craving for the love and recognition of other human beings. In this painting, Reaching Out by Salma Arastu, a woman extends her hands to as many children as she can hold. “If we all reach out and share More
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A Buddhist God?

DAVID R. LOY
Tikkun (2014) 29 (3): 38–40.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2713358
Published: 01 August 2014
... of our cravings and delusions, we do not usually experience the world as it really is, nor do we understand who we really are. To become enlightened is to awaken to the true nature of our cravings and delusions, which ends our dukkha (dis-ease). This includes seeing through the illusion of a self...
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Lost in Translation: Faith, Misunderstanding, and Certainty

ELIZABETH WRIGHT
Tikkun (2016) 31 (1): 56–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-3447069
Published: 01 January 2016
... of this comes from Psalm 42. Kushner’s understanding of the first verse in Hebrew is: “As the deer craves the riverbed, so my soul craves you, God.” But an English translation removes the word afikei (edge), which follows “water” in the Hebrew version. Kushner says this psalm is about the river-bank...
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Feeding the Danger Habit

David Sterritt
Tikkun (2009) 24 (5): 67–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2009-5028
Published: 01 October 2009
... of postwar people crave deadly peril the way others American soldiers. The Germany. Her book . . . is an essential contribution crave alcohol or gambling, and that front­...
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Not for Long

Czeslaw Milosz
Tikkun (2010) 25 (2): 78–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2010-2035
Published: 01 April 2010
... to the point of being ridiculous as now when craving absurdly deliciously what 1 cannot have 1 gain in strength from my drive's decline, now like an old cat that does not come when called, but warms my lap...
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Alan Shapiro on the Poetry You Will Need

Alan Shapiro
Tikkun (2009) 24 (1): 78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2009-1048
Published: 01 January 2009
... or spiritual comfort you would think. He had no patience for poetiy of “uplift,” or cheap forms of reassurance. What he craved— what gave him solace—were poems that named his situation realistically, that accurately portrayed his fears,M anxieties...
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The Still Center of the Moving World

Katje Richstatter
Tikkun (2007) 22 (4): 78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2007-4024
Published: 01 July 2007
... een ilence occupies an uneasy monastery is austere, but seems full of life Japan and the U nited States, he under­ place in our culture. We crave and joy, each individual entirely devoted stood the special am ount of psychologi­ th e idea...
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The Lack of Money

David Loy
Tikkun (2007) 22 (4): 17–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2007-4007
Published: 01 July 2007
... that can never confer the sense of reality we crave. We work hard to acquire a big bank account and all the things that society teaches us will make us happy, and then we cannot understand why they do not resolve our sense...
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A Scientific View of God

RAMI SHAPIRO
Tikkun (2015) 30 (3): 49–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-3140200
Published: 01 August 2015
... unquestioning faith. We crave power, so our gods empower pious elites. We are terrified of death, so our gods promise eternal life. We fear “the other,” so our gods condemn outsiders to horrific fates in this world or in the next. Our gods battle one another because we battle one another. Our gods love and hate...
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Omid Safi on Your Approach to the Muslim World

Omar Safi
Tikkun (2009) 24 (1): 77–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2009-1047
Published: 01 January 2009
... of reassurance. What he craved— what gave him solace—were poems that named his situation realistically, that accurately portrayed his fears,M anxieties, and his physical and emotional pain. My brother needed poems that spoke the truth. And that in my view is the principle...
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The New Saints

Phillip Barcio
Tikkun (2009) 24 (3): 17–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2009-3007
Published: 01 August 2009
... of and history, spirituality. progressive notions Byhis dogma transcending service of good. I think that’s something a lot of people in this country craving.” have a service been lot of country of in this that’s...
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We Are One Body: A Christian Perspective on Justice in the City

Alexia Salvatierra
Tikkun (2013) 28 (1): 25–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-1957441
Published: 01 January 2013
... increasing political democracy and increasing economic tyranny — an economic consolidation of power. We would seem more free but we would feel less free. That self-contradictory experience, the official prophesied, would produce great anxiety, which would lead people to seek out demagogues and crave...
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The New Holy War between Good and Evil

David R. Loy
Tikkun (2007) 22 (6): 16–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2007-6005
Published: 01 November 2007
... the secure identity we crave, including belief systems that unify us into a group self. But a group self gains its own identity by distin­ guishing itself from an other, and it’s all the better if that other is a threat...
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Rebuilding Homes, Building Peace

Ed Gaffney
Tikkun (2008) 23 (6): 76–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2008-6023
Published: 01 December 2008
... mander took out a pile of maps and started that Israelis crave more than anything else: pelling them from their homelands. explaining why demolishing homes was security. Halper grounds the home demoli­ At several turns in his argument, “just doing my job,” as he put it (with no tion policy...
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50th Anniversary Strategy for Peace Action

Glen Stassen
Tikkun (2007) 22 (4): 18–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2007-4008
Published: 01 July 2007
... difficulty is that we are trying to resolve a spiritual problem—our “emptiness”—by identifying with something outside ourselves that can never confer the sense of reality we crave. We work hard to acquire a big bank account...
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The Axis of Evil Walks into A Bar

Paul Lewis
Tikkun (2007) 22 (4): 76–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2007-4023
Published: 01 July 2007
... emotional alchemy. Just as jokes note. In it, the relative drives him around Iraq in late 2002 and early 2003—when about the stupidity of stereotypes and the town railing against America as a “paper European governments urged caution strength of in-group affiliation have tiger” but also craving...
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Identity Beyond Politics

Simon Mont
Tikkun (2018) 33 (1-2): 63–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-4354498
Published: 01 January 2018
... that it is easy to get caught in this wavelength and see nothing but the fact that we are not anti-oppressive enough, reflective enough, committed enough, wise enough, or just enough to co create the world we crave. This assessment of our collective not-enoughness is accurate from the perspective...
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What Can Replace Prison?

AL HUNTER
Tikkun (2015) 30 (3): 51–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-3140212
Published: 01 August 2015
..., two new books in the prison-abolition genre do include sections on hopeful alternatives. If that’s what you crave, one of these may be the best to start with. In Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison , Nell Bernstein convincingly demolishes the notion that the U.S. juvenile detention...
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The Exile of the Presence and the Presence of the Exile

Aaron Samuel Tamaret
Tikkun (2010) 25 (6): 56–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2010-6021
Published: 01 December 2010
... to to that degree did the Inner Spirit flee from hearts of all who are in a state of loneliness contain them all.” For the exilic leaders, the the Jewish nation itself; and the material­ and solitariness. sacrifices were merely incidental (a fact istic craving for the tastes and temptations...
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