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“Thus have I (mostly) heard”
By Matthew Abrahams
Tricycle offers a calendar of free resources for people practicing at home during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Meditation communities have quickly moved online—but the switch to virtual practice hasn’t been without its challenges.
By Liz Kineke
Tricycle’s Spring 2020 issue connects timeless Buddhist teachings with our contemporary world. In “How to Read the Lotus Sutra,” Tricycle’s Editor and Publisher James Shaheen interviews scholars Jacqueline Stone and Donald S. Lopez Jr. to get a better understanding of this fundamental Mahayana Buddhist text; writer Sallie Tisdale struggles with the ethics of euthanizing her aging dog; and African American professor of Buddhism Jan Willis examines race and class in American sanghas. Also in the issue, a profile of the musician Devendra Banhart sheds light on his Buddhist practice, Dan Zigmond reviews Jenny Odell’s instant classic How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, and Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar revisits the ongoing controversy of mindfulness instruction given in public schools.
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A glimpse of the latest in Buddhist books for kids
By Sumi Loundon Kim
Liv Bailey, a student at Maine’s Yarmouth High School, reviews a new mindful activity book for teens.
By Liv Bailey
New objections to the practice and its Buddhist roots being taught to children reveal a need for a coordinated response.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe AgsarTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
Have you wondered what the purpose of mindfulness really is? What is it that meditators awaken to? How does being kind to others promote our own wellbeing? Walk a path to freedom of mind and heart with Sharon Salzberg's new online course.
With Sharon SalzbergVideo teachings with contemporary Buddhist teachers
In the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha taught practitioners to contemplate the four elements—earth, fire, water, and air—as a foundation of mindfulness practice. Our Meditation Month teacher, Sebene Selassie, shows how this oft-overlooked practice of examining the elements as basic metaphors for experience can help us see our inherent connections to nature.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
An unlikely friendship develops between a drifting young jazz musician and the quirky proprietor of a Buddhist B&B in this lyrical homage to Zen and the Japanese American communities of Hawaii.
By Christopher Makoto YogiTricycle 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.
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