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A bodhisattva-like miracle worker credited with founding the Shingon school, Kobo Daishi—known as Kukai during his life—is a monumental figure in Japan but little known to North American Buddhists.
By Aaron P. Proffitt
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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.
Daily wisdom, teachings & critique
Reasons your boss might not want you to meditate, new online resources, and a Thai monk seeks asylum in Germany. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Matthew AbrahamsThe tribalism plaguing Myanmar for the last 60 years has led to the persecution of many more of the country’s minority peoples.
By Matthew GindinAt his first monlam prayer festival in the West, Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje bucks tradition for nuns and tells Tricycle he is working to end his school’s bitter divide.
By Eliza Rockefeller
In the Summer 2018 issue, Buddhist teachers and writers explain how cultivating bodhicitta—the deep wish to awaken for the sake of all beings—can help us live generously and with grace. This issue also includes the voices of Buddhist women weighing in on the #MeToo movement, including Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Tsultrim Allione’s “Nasty Woman Meditation” practice, which can help us tap into the feminine power we all possess.
Plus, learn how mindfulness practice supports conscious decision-making, and be inspired by bilateral above-the-knee amputee Hari Budha Magar, who lost his legs to a wartime bomb but still plans to summit Mount Everest next spring.
Dispensing with our differences, we can acknowledge our shared humanity.
By Lin Jensen
Arousing the thought of enlightenment is not just to make a determination to enlighten all beings; it is the determination to motivate all beings to motivate all beings, on and on.
By Francis Dojun Cook
Finding parallels between modern-day stand-up comedians and Zen masters of the past
By Pamela D. WinfieldTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
Far from being an idealistic, sentimental, or romantic emotion, genuine love is an ability and capacity within us—an inner resource we can grow. Drawing from timeless Buddhist wisdom and lovingkindness practice, we'll train in cultivating unconditional love for ourselves, those close to us, and ultimately for all beings.
With Sharon SalzbergVideo teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers
Our intellects can help us surmise that one plus one equals two, or that we need a key to start the engine of our car, but in the face of existential questions, ordinary understanding comes to a screeching halt. Master Bon Yeon (Jane Dobisz), the guiding teacher of the Cambridge Zen Center, says that koan practice begins in these “don’t know” spaces—the questions we can’t rationalize or figure out.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
Inspired by the history of the Dalits, or “untouchables,” in India, János Orsós, a schoolteacher and Buddhist of Romani descent, founded a secondary school in a village in eastern Hungary to help Romani teenagers—whose people have been victims of racist stereotyping and violence for centuries—attend universities.
Directed by Stefan LudwigTricycle 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 recent years, ethno-nationalist movements have had an apparent resurgence. What can we do to counter the hateful ideologies that have led to so much harm? Arno Michaelis, an ex-neo-Nazi, and Pardeep Singh Kaleka, whose father was murdered by a white supremacist, say that a combination of lovingkindness (Pali, metta) and relentless optimism (Punjabi, chardi kala) is the only path forward. The pair came together after the 2012 Sikh temple shooting in a Milwaukee suburb that left Kaleka fatherless. The gunman, Wade Michael Page was a member of the white power group that Arno had founded years earlier. (Arno had since left the organization and later became a Buddhist.) How Arno and Pardeep met and began working together to spread their anti-hate message is the subject of their new book, The Gift of Our Wounds. Here, they talk to Tricycle web editor Matthew Abrahams about their lives and their mission.
With Arno Michaelis & Pardeep Singh KalekaSubscribe for access to video teachings, monthly films, e-books, and our 25-year archive.
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