Start your day with a fresh perspective
The professor of religion at the University of San Diego visits Mumbai, India, as an educator and pilgrim.
Photographs by Sara Hylton
Start your day with a fresh perspective
We get quiet for a moment in meditation. We sink down to a relaxedness, a calmness, abruptly free from all the crazy dreams we confuse with reality. And in that instant, by mistake maybe, or because we aren’t thinking to stop it from happening—we experience, in a flash, things as they really are.
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Japanese Americans see history repeating as immigrant kids are held at a former internment camp, Slovakia’s first female president is a Zen meditator, and the Sri Lankan finance minister condemns monk’s anti-Muslim comments. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Karen Jensen and Matthew Abrahams
Robert Thurman discuss the Buddha’s scientific worldview and argues that it is less dogmatic than modern science.
By Matthew Abrahams with Robert A. F. Thurman
A Buddhist teacher explains why she came out as transgender in the nineties.
By Caitriona Reed
Tricycle‘s Summer 2019 issue offers a wealth of perspectives on both modern Western Buddhism and modern Western society at large. Media studies scholar Bernhard Pörksen takes a critical look at how new forms of media affect our perceptions of spiritual teachers in “Unmasking the Guru”; creative writing professor Daisy Hernández sheds light on a central Buddhist teaching’s importance amid our culture’s troubling rise in xenophobia; Pure Land minister Jeff Wilson shares a view of global interdependence unique to his tradition; and more.
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Marc Lesser, Zen teacher and CEO, addresses ethics in the workplace
By Marc Lesser
The professor of religion at the University of San Diego visits Mumbai, India, as an educator and pilgrim.
Photographs by Sara Hylton
Burying the grief that followed her family’s drowning in the Bermuda Triangle didn’t work. But using meditation to face it did.
By Sarah ConoverTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
Everything ends. We know this abstractly but tend to brush it under the rug in our day-to-day lives. But what if we could accept endings with greater ease? What if we could face the future without anxiety and relate to death as an opportunity? Join author and renowned guide Andrew Holecek for a six-part online course that will show you how to live with joy through spiritual preparation for life transitions, death, and beyond.
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Explore the Buddha’s ancient guidelines for right speech with tools to translate those teachings into the fast-paced conversations of a digital world. Insight meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer shares three foundations of mindful communication to bring your deeper values and intentions into every interaction.
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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
In recent years, school mindfulness programs have sprung up across the country, setting off a debate about whether the nominally secular programs derived from religious practices violate laws about the separation of church and state.
In her new book, Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools, Indiana University Bloomington religious studies professor Candy Gunther Brown takes a look at the history of the separation of church and state and the mindfulness movement and makes the case that mindfulness programs have overstepped their bounds. While she does not recommend that the programs should be banned, she argues that making them mandatory is unconstitutional and that students must be asked to opt-in to the classes. (Even opt-out options, she claims, place an illegal burden on the students.)
Here, Gunther Brown talks with Tricycle Editor and Publisher James Shaheen about how her view, the legal precedents set from the school prayer debate, and the claims that mindfulness is a form of “stealth Buddhism.”
This episode is sponsored by Maitripa College.
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