Buddha Buzz: Yoda Sutras

The Buddha and Yoda were both wise beings. But do you know Star Wars from the Dhammapada?

See how well you do on Deily’s quiz: “Who Said It? Yoda or the Buddha?”

•  The Dalai Lama’s Tibetan New Year message 
• College student Phoebe Myers writes about the summer she spent at a Thai forest monastery when she was 11
•  A review of Wreck and Order, the debut novel by Buddhist writer and Tricycle contributor Hannah Tennant-Moore 
•  Features editor Andrew Cooper cracks the curious case of the “Cucumber Sage” 

Here’s what else is new at Tricycle this week:

•  Registration is now open for Norman Fischer’s online course, “Training in Compassion.” The eight-week course on lojong [Tibetan mind-training] incorporates the contemplation of 59 slogans. Fischer is a Zen priest and teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center. The course starts on March 7; more information is available here. 
• A roundup of modern Buddhist culture 
• Who Knows? A talk with Insight Meditation Society’s co-founder and Vipassana teacher Joseph Goldstein 

And here’s what we’re reading beyond Tricycle:

• The Calmer Choice debate continues in Massachusetts on whether the mindfulness-based program for children violates the separation of church and state. Read the Cape Cod Times’ coverage here and here; and learn more about the issue in this Change.org petition  
• Raising, then slaughtering, pigs at a spiritual retreat center (Boston Review) 
• Learn more about the meaning behind mudras in Buddhist art (HuffPo Religion)