Helen Tworkov

Video: Letting My Self Die

The Tibetan Buddhist teacher discusses what his near-death experience showed him about our ability to change.

With Helen Tworkov and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

May 01, 2019

Leaving Everything Behind

A renowned teacher gives up a traditional life of protection to seek the extreme and transformational conditions of an anonymous mendicant monk.

By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov

Summer 2019

Magazine Meditation & Practice

The Good Shepherd

Strengthening our natural capacity for awareness

by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov

Summer 2014

In Celebration of Beginnings

The name Tricycle continues to evoke curiosity and some befuddlement. Yet there is logic to this nomenclature: a vehicle for the path; a beginner’s vehicle with its allusion to the quintessential Zen concept of “beginner’s mind,” and for beginning dharma in the West; three (as in wheels) for the Three Treasures: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, and […]

By Helen Tworkov

Fall 2001

Magazine Personal Reflections

The Great Experiment

Interview with Tim Olmsted

By Helen Tworkov

Fall 2010

Magazine Society & Environment

Satyagraha Special Section: Introduction

An introduction to our special section, Satyagraha: The Force of Truth

By Helen Tworkov

Spring 2008

Magazine Society & Environment

Just Power

In a talk given at Smith College, Helen Tworkov reflects on a half century of American Buddhist women and reimagines the future of power.

By Helen Tworkov

Winter 2005

Magazine Society & Environment

Contemplating Corporate Culture

An interview with Mirabai Bush on bringing contemplation into the inner sanctum of American power, from Harvard University to Monsanto.

By Helen Tworkov

Summer 2001

Magazine

A Two-Track Mind

Every time the salesman at Eastern Mountain Sports brought an item for me to try on—a Superwick undershirt, a fleece vest, a coated-nylon shell—I tried to gauge my level of comfort for various degrees of inclement weather. By the time he asked where I was going, he had every reason to expect me to say […]

By Helen Tworkov

Spring 2001

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Society & Environment

“You Have a Church for Cats?” The Service of an Animal Chaplain

Chaplain Sarah Bowen discusses how we grieve the death of our pets, addressing the needs of animals, and how to practice mindfulness with cats.

Interview with Sarah Bowen by Matthew Abrahams

Jul 16, 2019

Magazine

The Buddhist Review

Arts & Culture

What is a Grammy to Laurie Anderson?

The avant-garde artist discusses her award-winning album, Landfall, and how her work and Buddhist practice have merged over time.

By Matthew Abrahams

Summer 2019

Dharma Talks

Video teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers

Turning Turmoil into Clarity

In Vajrayana practice, negative and positive emotions, broken down into five types, are two sides of the same coin; when purified, negative emotions transform into their enlightened form. Karla Jackson-Brewer shows us how to nourish Tibetan Buddhism’s empowered feminine principle to put this transformation into effect.

Karla Jackson-Brewer

Jul 2019

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