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The Buddhist nun’s announcement follows Shambhala International head Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche's decision to resume teaching after stepping away due to sexual abuse allegations.
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Buddhist leaders urge the US Senate to fairly assess impeachment evidence, two scholars create a database of Jataka tales, and Tibetan Nyingma master Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche dies. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
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The Buddhist nun’s announcement follows Shambhala International head Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche’s decision to resume teaching after stepping away due to sexual abuse allegations.
By Matthew Abrahams
In this interview from 2000, Ram Dass discusses entering the final chapter of his life and how his sudden illness was a “stroke of luck.”
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Tricycle’s Winter 2019 issue brings together Buddhist viewpoints and stories from around the world. Yuko Wakayama Yamada, vice abbess of a Soto Zen monastery in Tokyo, writes about converting from Catholicism to Zen; Insight Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein explains why getting what we crave will not lead to happiness; and writer Hawa Allan reviews Grace Will Lead Us Home—Jennifer Berry Hawes’s book about the aftermath of the 2015 Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina—from a Buddhist perspective. What’s more, the Australia-based Tibetan Buddhist teacher Khentrul Rinpoche offers a practice on getting along with people who hold different views from our own—just in time for the holidays.
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Many of us struggle to silence our inner critic on a daily basis. According to meditation teacher Tara Brach, that’s because we are living in a “trance of unworthiness,” and are addicted to self-judgment. In her new book, Radical Compassion, Tara offers a path to overcoming our most entrenched negative self-talk.
Tara is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C., and a clinical psychologist who has been at the forefront of blending Buddhist meditation and therapeutic methods. She is also a best-selling author and hosts the popular Tara Brach meditation podcast.
Tara is perhaps best known for her teachings on RAIN, an acronym that stands for Recognize, Acceptance, Investigation, and Nurturing, and describes a method for applying mindfulness to difficult emotions. In Radical Compassion, she focuses on using RAIN to cultivate compassion—beginning with compassion for ourselves.
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