Encourage Others by Overcoming Your Own Suffering

The co-abbot of Embracing-Simplicity Hermitage on the transformative power of courage and compassion

By Venerable Pannavati

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Summer 2025 • Volume 34, Number 4

Daily Dharma

Life is a reflection of the quality of the mind. If you really understand the mind, you understand the world.

– Sayadaw U Tejaniya, “The Art of Investigation”

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Consider Yourself a Tourist

Advice from the Dalai Lama on making our lives meaningful and dealing with our mortality.

By The Dalai Lama

Winter 1999

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Liberating Impermanence

Even timeless teachings must meet each moment anew.

By Kurt Spellmeyer

Fall 2020

Teachings

Exhaling into Emptiness

In an excerpt from a talk given at San Francisco Zen Center, the late Zen master expounds on the insights of the outbreath.

By Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Oct 12, 2024

Online Courses

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Buddhist Personality Types

Buddhist tradition names three personality types that are refined through meditation and understanding as we heal and grow. This course invites you to better relate your own unique experience in a way that uncovers the purified gems of your unique personality type.

With Sharon Salzberg

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July 22, 2025 • 2–3 p.m. ET
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From the Age of Information to the Age of Connection

Mindfulness teacher Shinzen Young discusses AI, Buddhism, and the potential for chatbots to encourage right speech.

May 20, 2024–July 29, 2025 • 11 A.M. ET
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Tricycle’s Meditation Group

Tricycle’s Meditation Group for Tricycle subscribers will provide weekly meditations and small group discussions led by renowned Buddhist teachers.

Pilgrimage to India & Nepal March 8–21, 2026 with Venerable Bhante Buddharakkhita

March 08–21, 2026
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Pilgrimage to India & Nepal 2026

Join us on this Buddhist Pilgrimage to India & Nepal and explore what the Buddha said were the four sites that every committed dharma practitioner should visit.

March 8-21, 2026

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A Journey Through Arya Tara’s Many Forms

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Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

Tara, the female buddha of compassion, manifests as peaceful, fierce, and semi-fierce, or joyful—qualities we can learn to embody in our practice and lives.