Practices I Find Helpful in the Face of Suffering

His Holiness provides practical advice for overcoming despair and hatred when faced with adversity.

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Summer 2025 • Volume 34, Number 4

Daily Dharma

The search for happiness is not about looking at life through rose-colored glasses or blinding oneself to the pain and imperfections of the world. Nor is happiness a state of exaltation to be perpetuated at all costs; it is the purging of mental toxins such as hatred and obsession that literally poison the mind.

– Matthieu Ricard, “A Way of Being”

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How to Be Your Own Soulmate

Using Thich Nhat Hanh’s Three Powers to heal our relationship with ourselves

By Sister Dang Nghiem

Summer 2023

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You Can Get There From Here

Defilements as a path to awakening

By Mark Herrick

Spring 2023

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What Goes Through the Bardos?

Pema Chödrön on dualistic consciousness, non-self, and everything in between

By Pema Chödrön

Winter 2022

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Buddhist Personality Types

Buddhist tradition names three personality types that are refined through meditation and understanding as we heal and grow. This course invites you to better relate your own unique experience in a way that uncovers the purified gems of your unique personality type.

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July 22, 2025 • 2–3 p.m. ET
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From the Age of Information to the Age of Connection

Mindfulness teacher Shinzen Young discusses AI, Buddhism, and the potential for chatbots to encourage right speech.

May 20, 2024–July 29, 2025 • 11 A.M. ET
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Tricycle’s Meditation Group for Tricycle subscribers will provide weekly meditations and small group discussions led by renowned Buddhist teachers.

September 16, 2025 • 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. ET
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Join us for a Q&A and book signing to celebrate the publication of Ann Tashi Slater’s “Traveling Through the Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World.”

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Join us on this Buddhist Pilgrimage to India & Nepal and explore what the Buddha said were the four sites that every committed dharma practitioner should visit.

March 8-21, 2026

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Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

Tara, the female buddha of compassion, manifests as peaceful, fierce, and semi-fierce, or joyful—qualities we can learn to embody in our practice and lives.