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By Sarah Fleming
Start your day with a fresh perspective
With Stephen Batchelor, Sharon Salzberg, Andrew Olendzki, and more
See Our CoursesWhen we talk about “cleansing karma,” we sometimes have this illusion that we’re going to wash it all off and it’s going to go away. But what we really do is cleanse our relationship with it… We drop our old ways of responding and our old traps of habit energy.
Setting aside a few hours once a month to practice for a longer period can help us reset and recover—plus it’s free.
Zen priest Norman Fischer explains how we are more than the people we seem to be and that compassion is already part of the equation.
If we use up our energy to resist our circumstances, we won’t be able to dedicate it to the work of true transformation.
Daily wisdom, teachings & critique
In a recent episode of Tricycle Talks, scholar Roger Jackson discusses his new book, Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World, and how we can meaningfully engage with the concept of rebirth today.
An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen
How to find harmony with any situation, even the painful
Tricycle’s latest issue looks at Buddhism’s unanswered questions and gives advice for aspiring bodhisattvas. It also offers teachings on grief and friendship and the meaning of refuge. In “Making Our Own Jewels,” the late Teri Dillion offers a reflection on how her practice changed during her terminal illness. In “Partial Equanimity,” writer Jay Caspian Kang discusses Buddhsim and the Asian American identity with Chenxing Han. “How Meditation Failed Me” explores psychotherapist Mark Epstein’s struggles with the return of a childhood stammer. And in “Leaving the Palace,” Ann Tashi Slater compares growing up as a woman to Buddhist renunciation. Other features include Suzuki Roshi’s comments on war, a Zen practitioner’s sojourn in a sweat lodge; the meaning of the vajra in practice and ritual; and teachings on patience and mindful journaling.
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Dive deep into the Buddha's profound and freeing teaching of dependent arising with the founders of Bodhi College.
With Stephen Batchelor, Christina Feldman, John Peacock and Akincano WeberVideo teachings with contemporary Buddhist teachers
In this Dharma Talk, Malcolm Martin proposes the term "structural selfishness" to discuss the ways that a fixed idea of self hinders our practice, while offering insight on how to embrace the complexity of interdependence.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
In Pad Yatra, follow along on the Kung Fu Nuns’ extraordinary 450-mile trek across the Himalayas to inspire climate action throughout the region and across the world.
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Shifting the Ground We Stand On: Buddhist and Western Thinkers Challenge Modernity, introduces a fresh perspective to the dialogue between Buddhism and science. This anthology of Tricycle essays and interviews by Linda Heuman brings together Buddhist scholars, neuroscientists, and cultural critics on the question of finding meaning in our modern world.
Conversations with contemporary Buddhist leaders & thinkers
In this episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle editor-in-chief James Shaheen and co-host Sharon Salzberg sit down with Buddhist chaplain Sumi Loundon Kim to discuss how spiritual friendship and alternative models of community can support us in facing the crises of our world today.
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