Alex Tzelnic

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

Coming to Terms with the First Noble Truth (and My Shopping Addiction)

How a writer and gym teacher learned about life’s unsatisfactory nature through a series of motorcycle jacket purchases.

By Alex Tzelnic

Oct 06, 2017

The Slow Burn

Is smoking cigarettes un-Buddhist?

By Alex Tzelnic

Sep 06, 2017

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

(Meta)Physical Education

Buddhist lessons from an elementary school gym teacher

By Alex Tzelnic

Sep 05, 2017

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

Little Buddhas in the Classroom

Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders come clean about their morning mindfulness routine

By Alex Tzelnic

Aug 02, 2017

10 Steps to a Mindful Wedding

These two Buddhists just got married. Here’s what they learned.

By Alex Tzelnic

Jul 07, 2017

Dreaming Up, And Revising, Our Buddhist Practice

A lesson in slowly but surely letting go of what drew us to meditation, so we can just practice.

By Alex Tzelnic

Jun 14, 2017

What We Talk About When We Talk About Practice

Gym—and meditation—can be both about what we do and how we make sense of what we do.

By Alex Tzelnic

Apr 11, 2017

Kids Say the Dharmdest Things, Part II

The second installment of koans collected by a Montessori gym teacher

By Alex Tzelnic

Mar 01, 2017

The Value of Mindfulness in the Classroom

An elementary gym teacher and Zen practitioner asks mindfulness expert Sandra Delaney if mindfulness is doing children more harm than good.

By Alex Tzelnic

Jan 12, 2017

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Why Buddhists Should Run for Public Office

We need more bodhisattvas in politics, writes a Buddhist practitioner who serves in New Hampshire’s House of Representatives.

By Suzanne Harvey

Oct 17, 2017

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The Buddhist Review

Changing Karma

Mindfulness changes karma: when you sit, you are not allowing your impulses to translate into action.

By Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Family Awareness: A Relational Path to Freedom in Family Life

We all play roles in our families—the calm elder sibling, the generous uncle, the wise parent—and each role comes with a set of expectations. Join meditation teacher Bart van Melik, who teaches mindfulness in juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters, and New York City public schools, as he uses the Buddha’s four noble truths to find new and supportive ways for us to approach the stresses we all face at home.

Bart van Melik

Oct 2017

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