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Dependent Arising
Study the most profound and freeing teaching of the Buddha with the founders of Bodhi College.
With Stephen Batchelor, Christina Feldman, John Peacock and Akincano WeberStudy the most profound and freeing teaching of the Buddha with the founders of Bodhi College.
With Stephen Batchelor, Christina Feldman, John Peacock and Akincano WeberStart your day with a fresh perspective
With Stephen Batchelor, Sharon Salzberg, Andrew Olendzki, and more
See Our CoursesThe art of living involves overcoming our head-trapped numbness, in becoming acutely sensitive to the cryptic messages of our feelings, no matter how painful. The more closely we listen, the more deeply we understand. Not just great but entirely unimagined treasures may then pour into our life and world.
Advice from the Dalai Lama on making our lives meaningful and dealing with our mortality.
How a Zen nun discovered generosity in receiving
Practices to help relieve fear and loneliness
Daily wisdom, teachings & critique
A Vajrayana practitioner recounts her late-in-life gender transition while on a 12-day solo meditation retreat
Joshua Bee Alafia explores alobha, giving freely without attachment, in an excerpt from this month’s Dharma Talk.
The winning poems from last month’s Haiku Challenge, a teaching from Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, and a short guided meditation on expanding the visual sense.
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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Two new publications illuminate the early years of the late Zen master.
A brief teaching from a Buddhist scholar
Lessons in grief from a rescue chicken
Timeless teachings. Modern methods.
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
How can we find the courage to have alobha, to give freely without attachment; adosa, to let go of aversion and punitive actions and live with integrity; and amoha, to gain insight into the nature of things without delusion? In this dharma talk, we will learn to practice the three beautiful branches of dana (giving), sila (moral integrity), and bhavana (cultivation, meditation), and to live as heart-centrically as we can.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
Originally released in 1985 in 16mm and beautifully remastered in 2021, The Lion’s Roar is an intimate portrait of the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
Tricycle wisdom in e-book format
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 Tricycle Talks, Tricycle editor-in-chief James Shaheen sits down with Buddhist writer Marie Myung-Ok Lee to discuss her new novel, The Evening Hero, and the generational impacts of wartime trauma.
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