Ken McLeod

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

Forget About Consistency

Our ideas about what meditation should feel like are just more thoughts.

By Ken McLeod

Mar 27, 2020

Lessons from a Master Spy

Compassion is not about groups. It is about individuals.

By Ken McLeod

Sep 11, 2019

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Anger

How to recognize it, work with it, and even find wisdom in it.

By Ken McLeod, Illustrations by Patrick Leger

Fall 2019

Picturing India’s Ancient Mystics

Paintings of the eighty-four mahasiddhas, celebrated adepts of old, are presented in a rare complete collection from Tibet.

By Ken McLeod

Summer 2019

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

One-Breath Meditation

Breathe out just once. By holding a stable attention for one breath, we can become attuned to the quality of a clear mind.

By Ken McLeod

Mar 05, 2019

On Not Being Special

Only a lucky few attain enlightenment, but there is nothing special about them—or you.

By Ken McLeod

Feb 12, 2019

Prayer Without Blind Faith

There’s no need to pray to anything. If done from a settled mind, what we are praying for arises naturally.

By Ken McLeod

Dec 10, 2018

Mind Nature: Red Pill or Blue Pill?

A breakthrough experience in meditation can start a profound journey into the unknown or inflate one’s sense of self and reinforce delusion.

By Ken McLeod

Nov 19, 2018

Buddha statue reflected in crystal ball samaya

Magazine Meditation & Practice

How Samaya Works

Is samaya a commitment to do whatever your teacher says?

By Ken McLeod, Photographs by Seth Miranda

Fall 2018

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Spring 2020

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The Three Principles of Awakening

In Tibetan Buddhism, view, meditation, and action frame the path to enlightenment. In this series, Bodhi Path teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips breaks down the way these three principles build upon each other to give rise to and stabilize direct experience of emptiness.

Dawa Tarchin Phillips

Apr 2020

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Ken McLeod

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

Forget About Consistency

Trike Daily Teachings

Lessons from a Master Spy

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Anger

Magazine Arts & Culture

Picturing India’s Ancient Mystics

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

One-Breath Meditation

Trike Daily Teachings

On Not Being Special

Trike Daily

Prayer Without Blind Faith

Trike Daily

Mind Nature: Red Pill or Blue Pill?

Magazine Meditation & Practice

How Samaya Works