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Many of the studies touting meditation and mindfulness benefits are not methodologically sound.
By Matthew Abrahams
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Perhaps the greatest irony of healing is that it occurs when we accept our felt experience, rather than rely on willpower or focused effort to get rid of the unwanted.
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Tibetan leaders mark George H. W. Bush’s death, Bill Gates praises meditation, and Tibetan former political prisoner and activist passes away. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Eliza Rockefeller
There’s no need to pray to anything. If done from a settled mind, what we are praying for arises naturally.
By Ken McLeod
The Samadhanga Sutta explains how insight arises from developing jhana, the Buddha’s concentration.
By Peter Doobinin
With this issue Tricycle introduces a comprehensive new design. Beyond the new look, readers will find front sections that foster dialogue within the Tricycle community, let you in on what’s happening right now in the Buddhist world, and provide practical teachings for day-to-day life.
In “The Human Deity,” our cover story, contributing editor Kurt Spellmeyer takes on different schools’ representations of the Buddha: was he human or divine? Journalist Judith Hertog investigates why a rapidly growing Buddhist community insists that it alone teaches the one, pure dharma, and our editors look at the sometimes-shaky science behind mindfulness and meditation studies.
We also share lesser-known Buddhist practices for personal and collective harmony in our special section “Meditations Off the Beaten Path,” including a daily practice to foster gratitude and a visualization for interconnection.
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Tricycle’s Winter 2018 special section, which focuses on sharing largely unknown practices in the Western Buddhist world, includes: “Ayya Kema: Recognizing the Four Elements,“ by Ayya Khema “Listening to Silence,” by Dharma Master Hsin Tao “If You Want To Get Enlightened, You’ll Have to Find Your Hara First,” by Ken Kushner “Getting Started with the […]
By The Editors
Many of the studies touting meditation and mindfulness benefits are not methodologically sound.
By Matthew Abrahams
Extended contemplative practice can activate buried trauma.
By Josh KordaTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
What did the Buddha teach? What do Buddhist traditions have in common? How do I meditate? This course is an ideal starting place for anyone interested in Buddhism and meditation.
With John DunneVideo teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers
Committing to a guru can involve considerable risks, but when approached with care, honesty, and critical discernment, the relationship can yield powerful insights.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
Every 20 years, locals tear down Ise Jingu, one of the most important Shinto shrine complexes in Mie Prefecture, Japan, only to rebuild it entirely from scratch. Acclaimed Japanese photographer Masaaki Miyazawa explores this 1,300-year-old ritual in his debut feature. Miyazawa takes viewers on a meditative journey through Japan’s cypress forests, mountains, and coasts, where coexisting with the natural world is part of enduring Buddhist environmentalism.
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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
Feeling burnt out does not make you a failure. That’s the first thing Buddhist teacher and former tech executive Lawrence Levy would want you to know. Burnout, Levy says, is a healthy response when our human needs aren’t being met. As the former Chief Financial Officer of Pixar, Levy knows what it means to have a demanding job. But it was during his many years practicing in the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism that Levy began to find a way to apply Buddhist principles to the difficulties that we face in our everyday lives, leading him to co-found Juniper, an organization devoted to making meditation and the dharma accessible in a modern context. Here, Tricycle Editor and Publisher James Shaheen talks to Levy about the importance of continuous self-care in a mutually supportive environment and how meditation, learning, and connection can help us tend to the conditions that lead to burnout.
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