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Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism means coming face-to-face with the suffering of all sentient beings. It’s not fun.
By Constance Kassor
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Why is it that we yearn to be more or other than we are? It so rarely occurs to us that what we are looking for maybe—indeed, always is—already within us, simply undiscovered.
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Refugees face grave danger as monsoon season threatens camps and Myanmar rewrites history, independent observers warn.
By Matthew GindinCompassion in Mahayana Buddhism means coming face-to-face with the suffering of all sentient beings. It’s not fun.
By Constance KassorA full experience of calligraphy and ceramics dissolves the distinction between artist, work, and viewer.
By Gordon Greene
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar lies at the heart of Tricycle’s Spring 2018 issue. American imam Khalid Latif heads to the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh; Southeast Asia–based journalist Joe Freeman provides five takes on Myanmar’s leader; and professor Johan Elverskog offers a historical perspective on the long and largely peaceful history of Buddhist and Muslim interaction.
Plus, this issue includes powerful advice for meditation from the 10th-century Indian master Tilopa; an essay by Zen Buddhist priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel on how those who have been displaced and discriminated against may begin to reclaim a sense of home; and author and translator C. W. Huntington, Jr.’s thoughts on whether we’re looking to Buddhism when we should be looking to therapy.
Read these pieces and more in our Spring 2018 issue.
Lovingkindness is a powerful practice for developing goodwill toward all—but should we extend it to include the jerks and monsters of our world?
By Andrew Olendzki
We practice “right concentration” not to experience blissful states but to help us entertain uncertainty.
By Mark Epstein
A Q&A with Him Sophy, classical musician and composer
By Julia HirschVideo teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers
How can we adapt our diet, lifestyle, and behavior to achieve greater balance in our health and spiritual practice? Eliot Tokar, a traditional Tibetan medicine doctor who has been practicing in New York City since 1993, presents the basics of Tibetan medicine, an ancient system of medical science inspired by a dharmic view of life and health.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing turns to the war-torn northeastern border of Myanmar in Ta’ang, a documentary that follows villagers of the Ta’ang ethnic minority as they flee to China, escaping an escalating civil war. In two refugee camps, some of the displaced attempt to create reasonably safe living conditions; others go deeper into China searching for work in sugarcane fields. Ta’ang captures the constant insecurity, instability, and disorientation that come with life as a refugee as well as the complexities—and emotional toll—of the choices Ta’ang families face.
Directed by Wang BingTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
From a Zen perspective, food is a source of nourishment as well as healing for the mind and body and can serve as a rich ground for spiritual practice. This spring in our new cooking course, we’ll be learning to make delicious Korean dishes that have been cooked in Buddhist monasteries for hundreds of years. Along the way, we’ll find out how the ancient art of Korean temple food can clean up our eating habits and quality of mind.
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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. An anthology of Tricycle essays and interviews by Linda Heuman, a journalist and visiting scholar of religious studies at Brown University, it brings together Buddhist scholars, neuroscientists, and cultural critics on the question of […]
Conversations with contemporary Buddhist leaders & thinkers
The second of the four noble truths teaches that craving leads to suffering. But that would be obvious to anyone struggling with addiction. Psychiatrist Judson Brewer, who is the director of research at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, brings mindfulness practice to the treatment of addiction. Here, Brewer talks to Tricycle contributing editor Amy Gross about the mechanisms in the brain that activate when we have cravings and how Buddhist teachings can help combat a wide variety of addictions.
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