Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

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Because cumulus clouds are beautiful to behold and generally indicate fair weather, their white, billowing shapes relax the mind and stimulate daydreams, inviting comparisons to animals, people, and other shapes that live in the human imagination. Each of our winning and honorable mention haiku found unexpected wonders in the cloudscape of a summer afternoon.

“There is an expression in Japanese, ‘Without a rope, people bind themselves.’ You do not think you are completely free, so you practice trying to liberate yourself. But what is binding you? Look around you. Nothing is binding you, and yet you cannot see it. You feel as if you are bound by something. Buddha calls this delusion. Yo...

“The rhythm of poetry is like that of a mourner’s,” writes the acclaimed South Korean poet Lee Seong-bok in Indeterminate Inflorescence. “Two steps forward, one step back . . . the fluttering funereal banners and th...

An exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne makes a plain but pointed claim: These objects were never simply meant to be looked at. “Living Images,” curated by Petra Rösch, the museum’s curator of Korean and Buddhist art, gathers ritual pa...