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The road ahead for Rigpa to reclaim its integrity will not be easy, but the embattled Buddhist organization can start by doing the right thing, writes a Tibetan psychologist and former monk.
By Lobsang Rapgay
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The most wrenching fear that one experiences is the fear one feels for others. Love is like that. When one loves, one fears for the other.
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The road ahead for Rigpa to reclaim its integrity will not be easy, but the embattled Buddhist organization can start by doing the right thing, writes a Tibetan psychologist and former monk.
By Lobsang RapgayIn Ethan Nichtern’s new book, The Dharma of the Princess Bride, the Shambhala Buddhist teacher explains that everything he knows about relationships comes from two sources: Buddhism and this 1980s cult classic.
By Dan ZigmondMenri Trizin was born in Tibet and was abbot of the Menri Monastery in India.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe
Snakes. Flying. Disease. Dogs. You name it—someone fears it. The special section in Tricycle’s latest issue features Buddhists who weigh in on living despite and amidst our anxieties. Dharma Punx guiding teacher Josh Korda describes how to meet terror with tenderness in “A Safe Container for Fear”; creative writing professor Daisy Hernández discusses her mother’s once undocumented status and the worry that kept her from writing about it earlier in “Learning to Speak the Truth”; and Buddhist nun Marcela Clavijo explains “What Green Tara Can Teach Us about Fear.” (Spoiler: She’ll show you how to recognize and overcome it.)
“What happened to controlled, contemplative tippling?”
By Leath ToninoVideo teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers
Real happiness is far from personal; it is a communal matter. Join Ayya Yeshe, a longtime Tibetan Buddhist nun and founder of the Bodhicitta Foundation, as she explores bodhisattva training, or the spiritual commitment to work for the enlightenment of all beings.
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The third volume of Tricycle Teachings: Meditation offers a selection of the clearest and most helpful meditation instructions from Pema Chödrön, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and many others. The guidance of these master meditators will help you start or reinvigorate a daily meditation practice.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
What are the costs of economic progress? Behemoth travels through Inner Mongolia to show the answer in unflinching detail: hillsides blasted for mining; the blistered hands and diseased lungs of the miners forced to do this work to survive. Following the trajectory of Dante’s Divine Comedy, the film reveals the stunning, and ruinous, effects of unbridled greed on a nation’s land and people.
Directed by Zhao LiangTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
Imagine if you could shift into a calm, relaxed awareness whenever you needed to. This is effortless mindfulness—a state that is always available to us, but is so close and so good that we often can’t see or accept it. In this deeply practical course led by Loch Kelly, we’ll learn how to find and sustain this awareness in order to unlock a natural happiness that has always been with us.
With Loch KellyConversations with contemporary Buddhist leaders & thinkers
We live in a world of fear. But need we be driven by it? In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Dr. Pilar Jennings, a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner and psychotherapist, speaks with Michael Kinnamon, former Dean of the Lexington Theological Seminary and author of the The Witness of Religion in an Age of Fear, about the restlessness, anxiety, and even panic characteristic of contemporary society.
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