Start your day with a fresh perspective
Classically trained painter Tsherin Sherpa envisions the survival of a displaced Tibetan tradition.
By Emily DeMaioNewton
Start your day with a fresh perspective
When you are lost or caught up in an emotional storm or contracted in self-centeredness or plagued by obsessive thoughts, notice what happens when you step outside or go for a walk and pay attention to the sky, the air, the light, the movement of wind, the feel of grass under your feet.
Daily wisdom, teachings & critique
Nepalese government ends pay-to-climb policy on Everest, Tibetan nuns finish geshema exams, and stressed Chinese workers find solace in studying Sanskrit scriptures. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Karen Jensen and Matthew Abrahams
One of the four Thai Forest monks granted a royal title explains the significance of this ceremony in Thailand and the West.
Interview with Ajahn Pasanno by Cara Dibdin
The president of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Center talks about how the community has responded to the suffering of a mass shooting and how it’s striving to put an end to it.
Interview with Helga Carrion by Karen Jensen
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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A Zen priest and scholar considers the role of aesthetics in a renunciant tradition.
By Kurt Spellmeyer, Photographs by Michael Kenna
Classically trained painter Tsherin Sherpa envisions the survival of a displaced Tibetan tradition.
By Emily DeMaioNewton
Parting words from Izumi Shikibu
By Izumi ShikibuTimeless 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
Ronald Purser is a professor of management at San Francisco State University and a longtime Buddhist practitioner who popularized the term McMindfulness in a piece he wrote for the Huffington Post in 2013. In it, he argued that mindfulness practice has been commercialized, and reduced to a mere “self-help technique.” His new book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, offers an argument against the mindfulness movement, claiming that corporations have embraced the practice in order to advance a neoliberal agenda.
In this episode, Purser strikes a more balanced tone and discusses the good and bad of the mindfulness movement, explains what he means by the catch-all term McMindfulness, and presents his view that mindfulness has an untapped potential to bring about real social change.
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