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Tikkun (2014) 29 (3): 28–29.
Published: 01 August 2014
... trepidation I threw open the doors and saw within a great throne with its back to me. I peeked about the throne to see who was in it and saw that it was empty. There was no one on the throne! I realized immediately that my former idea of God as an old man sitting on a throne in the sky was meaningless...
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Published: 01 November 2012
He Qi “The texts of the empty tomb tradition take injustice, suffering, and death seriously but do not see them as having the last word,” the author writes. In this painting, Empty-Tomb by He Qi, women gather around Jesus’s empty grave. More
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Published: 01 August 2014
Olivia Wise ( oliviawisestudio.com ) The Empty Throne by Olivia Wise. More
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Published: 01 April 2014
Above: Dave Cutler ( davecutlerstudio.com ) At fifty, people should be rising toward their peak, gaining respect as mentors to the young. Instead, middle age often shows us the emptiness at the core of the American dream. Illustration by Dave Cutler. More
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Tikkun (2012) 27 (4): 30–32.
Published: 01 November 2012
...He Qi “The texts of the empty tomb tradition take injustice, suffering, and death seriously but do not see them as having the last word,” the author writes. In this painting, Empty-Tomb by He Qi, women gather around Jesus’s empty grave. ...
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (2): 34–35.
Published: 01 April 2015
...DAVID R. LOY Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 Isn’t that a contradiction? How can one actualize both aspects? The bodhisattva realizes shunyata (emptiness)—that dimension in which there is nothing to gain or lose, no getting better or worse—but does not cling to that realization...
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Tikkun (2013) 28 (1): 72.
Published: 01 January 2013
... hold the dew before nightfall, the cloud before rain; Kiss us as we wish a lover to kiss us, without forethought or purpose. Light into the treetops, tear the resistant leaves away; Measure us, who crush them to mulch, by our own season. Not as entire emptiness, but emptiness dreaming of form...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (3): 38–40.
Published: 01 August 2014
... (emptiness). Being formless in itself is what enables shunyata to assume any form — including you and me. Shunyata is never perceived in itself, only as an aspect of the way an enlightened person experiences the world: things (including oneself) are shunya (empty) because they have no substance...
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Tikkun (2017) 32 (1): 16–19.
Published: 01 January 2017
... as progress, because no matter how simple or complex phenomena (forms, things, etc.) may be, they remain “empty” ( shunya ) of any self-existence. Everything is interdependent, a process arising and passing away according to conditions. In cosmological terms, our self-organizing universe ceaselessly generates...
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Tikkun (2012) 27 (3): 72.
Published: 01 August 2012
... smoked a bong on the Buddha’s forehead — out in a fallow field. Hindus will spill pig’s blood on the floor of a mosque in Delhi. His tribe, returning, will bow to the empty caves. Copyright © 2012 Tikkun magazine 2012 not for sale Bamian: A Photograph...
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Tikkun (2007) 22 (5): 49–53.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Jesus by commiting oneself to radical personal and social transformation. St. Paul writes in the Book of Philippians: “Have the mind of Christ, who was in the form of God, but emptied himself, became a servant...
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 71–72.
Published: 01 January 2015
... taper And the dregs settle, thick enough to muffle Any cry, a blossom abides in the center (Even when you are empty something is there). Sometimes I study the scallops of your body, Slipping my fingers along your contours, Curious about your lineage, wondering Who else marveled at your lightness...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (2): 71.
Published: 01 April 2014
... on the high windows. and then it hit me — spinning the light — horizontal two-foot arm smashing the blue through the empty pyramid holding it up in the glare of skyscraper glass: molten bronze-hand, hypotenuse of history, displaced knuckles — the smooth-casting over the gouged-out wounds...
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Tikkun (2007) 22 (4): 17–18.
Published: 01 July 2007
... with money. The problem isn’t just that I will someday get sick and die. My lack of self right now means that I feel something is wrong with me here and now. I experience the empty hole at the core of my being as a sense...
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Tikkun (2008) 23 (2): 56–57.
Published: 01 April 2008
... love, about and doubt wrenching and Mother Teresa’s honesty about her spiritual emptiness is uncomfortable because we tend to see we tend because is uncomfortable emptiness spiritual her Teresa’sabout Mother honesty...
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Tikkun (2012) 27 (2): 24–25.
Published: 01 April 2012
... from its throne and replaced it with a mighty emptiness. That emptiness is as pregnant as any womb before fertilization, any wound before its healing, any glass before its filling. During the week before Christmas, on the fourth night of Chanukah, forty or so faith leaders gathered on three days...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (3): 40–42.
Published: 01 August 2014
... that cannot be lifted except with the happiness of knowing God and being true to Him. And in there is an emptiness that cannot be filled except with love for Him, except by turning to Him and always remembering Him. And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it could not fill...
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Tikkun (2007) 22 (4): 18–20.
Published: 01 July 2007
... means that I feel something is wrong with me here and now. I experience the empty hole at the core of my being as a sense of lack, and in response I become preoccupied with projects that I believe will make me feel more...
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Tikkun (2017) 32 (4): 54.
Published: 01 November 2017
... out there, trampling her living jewels. Some as-yet green tomatoes will survive this rampage, her heels a softer hell than hail. They’re looking for her. Dragnet comes up empty because she’s never there. She weeds weeds, unwinds morning glory vines from pepper plants, so we know she is out...
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Tikkun (2010) 25 (6): 30–32.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., has turned away. husked our words of meaning, leaving only three empty syllables: blood, oil, war. 2. Chicago 2/15/03 The bullhorn asked us what we wanted. “Coffee...