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Rafe Martin

About the Author

Rafe Martin is an award-winning author and storyteller whose work has been featured in Time, Newsweek, and USA Today. He is a recipient of the prestigious Empire State Award and is also a fully ordained and sanctioned Zen teacher. His books include The Hungry Tigress, The Banyan Deer, and Endless Path—Awakening in the Buddhist Imagination: Zen Practice, Daily Life, and the Jataka Tales. See www.rafemartin.com

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The Brave Little Parrot, Retold by Rafe Martin

The Brave Little Parrot, Retold by Rafe Martin

January 31, 2017By Rafe Martin

Rafe Martin offers a retelling of a traditional Buddhist Jataka tale.

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Seek & You Shall Find

the Spring 2018 issue

“You cannot serve both God and mammon,” advises Jesus in the Gospel of St. Matthew, but many of us spend our lives trying to do just that. Our inner search is real—and so is our desire for the pleasures of this world and the money that can buy them.

In this Spring 2018 issue on “Wealth,” we explore how men and women, great teachers and ordinary sinners alike, have approached this fundamental challenge of human existence: God, mammon, or both? The ways are many. Read more>

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Fall 2018
The Journey Home
Editorial Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2018

Winter 2018-2019
Being with Change
Editorial Submission Deadline: September 1st, 2018

Spring 2019
Awakenings
Editorial Submission Deadline: December 1st, 2018

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