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Summer 2025 • Volume 34, Number 4

Daily Dharma

Meditation requires diligent effort and clear intention. You cannot demand that distractions vanish, but you can cultivate a deep willingness to repeatedly and happily let go.

– Shaila Catherine, “Access to Absorption”

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Teachings

TeachingsMagazine | Practice, Teachings

A Gateway to Freedom

Freeing your mind in the face of suffering and the resistance that comes with it

By Vidyamala Burch

Winter 2022

Teachings

Everything You Encounter Is Your Life

In his commentary to Dogen’s Tenzo Kyokun, a Soto priest expounds a powerful lesson on the life of the true Self.

By Kosho Uchiyama Roshi

Nov 06, 2024

Teachings

Lessons from Life’s Low Point

Using our struggles to harness compassion

By Haemin Sunim

Dec 31, 2024

Online Courses

Timeless teachings. Modern methods.

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.

With Sharon Salzberg

Upcoming Events

July 22, 2025 • 2–3 p.m. ET
Zoom webinar

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
Zoom meeting

Tricycle’s Meditation Group

Tricycle’s Meditation Group for Tricycle subscribers will provide weekly meditations and small group discussions led by renowned Buddhist teachers.

Pilgrimage to India & Nepal March 8–21, 2026 with Venerable Bhante Buddharakkhita

March 08–21, 2026
Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage to India & Nepal 2026

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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Dharma Talks

Video teachings with contemporary Buddhist teachers

A Journey Through Arya Tara’s Many Forms

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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.