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Zen practitioner and general surgery resident Rebecca Williams-Karnesky teaches mindfulness to overwhelmed medical students.
Interview with Rebecca Williams-Karnesky by Michael Haederle
Monasteries in Bodhgaya, India, request that they not be used as quarantine centers, the coronavirus reaches Rohingya camps, and Tibetan women create a hotline to help people affected by violence during lockdown. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen
Made at the onset of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, Tricycle’s Summer 2020 issue contains teachings and essays that offer guidance on dealing with uncertainty and navigating an interconnected world. Sharon Salzberg teaches how the key to resilience lies in remembering that we are never alone in her dharma talk “Forever Connected”; writer Curtis White, in “Our World in the Wheel of Life,” critiques modern society by imagining a contemporary version of the Tibetan Wheel of Life; and former Zen monastic Vanessa Zuisei Goddard contemplates what makes a space sacred in “The Places We Go to Be Here.”
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Trying to define what is truly Buddhist is probably a waste of time.
By Jay L. Garfield, Illustrations by MCKIBILLO
Portals between the living and dead, stupas in lush pine forests, and other surprises await exploration in Mexico’s soaring capital city.
By Adrienne Bard de Palazuelos, Illustration by Michael Byers
“I’m sick of peering at the ego. / No, my ego’s tired of peering at me— / It’s she who awakens me into being.”
By Jenny XieTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
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In this series, Vanessa Zuisei Goddard speaks of the four immeasurables as a “science of compassion,” showing the incredible power loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity have to transform our relationships with others.
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After losing two friends and an uncle to suicide, Zen priest Itettsu Nemoto made it his life’s mission to support those struggling with depression and suicidal behavior. My Soul Drifts Light upon a Sea of Trees follows three of the hundreds of people Nemoto has counseled as their lives are transformed by his holistic, community-based approach to suicide prevention.
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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. 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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