TURNING WHEEL
The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism

• Pulling the Plug by Maylie Scott (excerpt)
Maylie Scott's moving account of how taking care of her aging mother evolved into a great dharma lesson.

• Old and in the Way by Darlene Cohen (excerpt)
Zen teacher Darlene Cohen, the author of Finding a Joyful LIfe in the Heart of Pain, describes with intimate honesty the lesson of impermanence in growing old.

•Special Section: Meditation in Action at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

• The Parking Lot Sutra: Ten Reasons Why It's Hard to Respond to Structural Violence by Donald Rothberg (excerpt)
• Sitting in the Dragon's Lair by Trena Cleland and Diana Winston

Other articles in this issue:

•Two Haibun on Old Age by Ken Jones

•Swallowing by Lin Jensen

•"On to the Next Project!" An Interview with Robert Aitken Roshi by Mushim Ikeda-Nash

•Old Body, Old Teacher by Allan Cooper with Lisa Grinnell

•I am Old by Lee Lipp

•Bowing to the Elderly by Diane Patenaude Ames

•Entering Tibet by Joanna Macy

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