Start your day with a fresh perspective
A law professor offers a practice to uncover our own biases and face the realities of racism.
By Rhonda Magee
Start your day with a fresh perspective
The capacity to recognize and accept where we are and to investigate what must be changed to minimize the harm that our own views and blindspots cause others is essential to the work of racial justice. And the capacity to do all of this with as little attachment and identification to the outcome is essential to true liberation.
Daily wisdom, teachings & critique
The climate activism group has drawn many teachers and practitioners looking to take their practice to the streets.
By Matthew Abrahams
In the Sakunagghi Sutta, a parable about predator and prey demonstrates the need to practice right mindfulness.
By Peter Doobinin
Conservative Buddhists force Thai artist to remove superhero-inspired Buddha paintings, the Dalai Lama urges peaceful dialogue in Hong Kong, and an elephant injures 18 at Buddhist pageant in Sri Lanka. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Karen Jensen and Matthew Abrahams
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 law professor offers a practice to uncover our own biases and face the realities of racism.
By Rhonda Magee
A former monk gains renown as one of the first openly transgender people in the Tibetan community, opening the door to acceptance.
By Lakshmi Gandhi, Photograph by Maria de la Guardia
A survivor of domestic violence seeks to reform Thai society by focusing on trauma, gender, and sexuality.
By Caitlin DwyerTimeless 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
Sensei José Shinzan Palma breaks down the false dichotomy between practice in the meditation hall and life “in the real world,” and shows how this realization of practice’s immediacy can transform our lives into a compassionate expression of service.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
In Kathmandu, life for female opioid addicts is hard. Addicted to the street drug pani and shunned by society, many turn to sex work and petty crime to survive. This documentary follows eight brave women who strive to recover against heavy odds and the former users who help them along the way.
By Raul Gallego AbellanTricycle 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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