Start your day with a fresh perspective
Global social witnessing is a technique that uses group mindfulness to process large-scale tragedies.
By Lori Shridhare
Start your day with a fresh perspective
Applying attention to smaller emotions—or simply focusing on form, sound, or physical sensations—develops your capacity to look at long-term, overwhelming emotional states.
Daily wisdom, teachings & critique
Demonstrators in Hong Kong burn offerings outside police station, activists decry an elephant’s treatment at Sri Lanka festival, and Thai monks take first place at video game tournament. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Karen Jensen
Global social witnessing is a technique that uses group mindfulness to process large-scale tragedies.
By Lori Shridhare
Timely advice for countering burnout
By Pamela Gayle White
Tricycle’s Fall 2019 issue frames questions of our modern, global, and political world in a Buddhist context. With stories of Buddhists working toward more equal societies and practices for facing anger and hopelessness, this issue offers guidance and encouragement toward both personal and collective progress.
In an excerpt from her first new book of spiritual teachings in over seven years, Pema Chödrön explains how a simple shift in perspective can pull us out of despair; Rhonda Magee, author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice, offers a practice for how to calmly uncover our internalized biases in “Making the Invisible Visible”; Ken McLeod teaches four meditations for working with anger; and Caitlin Dwyer interviews a leader of the Thai feminist movement about the relationship between Buddhism and feminism in Southeast Asia.
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In a country where Buddhism is on the decline, Zen priest Haemin Sunim has managed to reach millions.
By Emma Varvaloucas
The number of South Korean Buddhists and Buddhist temples, the country’s highest pagoda, the number of temples participating in Templestay, and more data on Buddhism in South Korea.
By The Editors
In bringing contemporary design to a Tibetan Buddhist center, an architect finds a foundation for his own practice.
By Joan Duncan OliverTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
The Buddha's teachings—the dharma—arose in a very different world from the one we live in today. This pragmatic online course sets out an encompassing vision for understanding and practicing dharma in the contemporary world. At its heart is an easy acronym we can all learn to apply, ELSA: Embrace, Let go, See, and Act. Join Stephen and Martine Batchelor as they clarify the core elements of Buddhist thought and meditation practice for the way we live today.
With Stephen and Martine BatchelorVideo teachings with contemporary Buddhist teachers
To raise mindful, compassionate children, parents must first establish a strong foundation in their own practice to serve as a model. Sumi Loundon Kim, a Buddhist chaplain and author of the Sitting Together parenting curriculum, provides immediately applicable practices for your family's daily routines and shows how to recognize and address harmful family patterns.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
In this Emmy-nominated documentary, two friends haunted by their combat experiences in Iraq embark on a 2,700-mile pilgrimage across America. Step by step, they confront the “moral injury” of war and discover the transformative power of meditation and community.
By Michael CollinsTricycle 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
Writer and longtime Zen student Lawrence Shainberg joins Tricycle Editor and Publisher James Shaheen to discuss his new book, Four Men Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen Teacher. They talk about Shainberg’s struggles as a practitioner and an author and how he brings them together in his new memoir, which recounts his conversations with his literary heroes, Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer, along with his teacher, Roshi Kyudo Nakagawa.
You can read an excerpt from Four Men Shaking in our Fall 2019 issue.
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