Ken McLeod

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

Man parting curtain to reveal a winding road behind it. what is bodhicitta

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Bodhicitta Explained

A Bird’s-Eye View of the Bodhisattva Path

By Ken McLeod

Summer 2018

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

Forget About Consistency

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

By Ken McLeod

Mar 29, 2018

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

The Progress Question

Like any artistic endeavor, meditation is a matter of practice.

By Ken McLeod

Mar 14, 2018

Let Mind Nature Be Your Guru through Mystical Devotion

An esoteric song traces the path from outward faith to a direct experience of knowing itself.

By Ken McLeod

Feb 09, 2018

Forgiveness Is Not Buddhist

Buddhist teachings do not advise asking others to absolve us from our misdeeds. Instead, they outline a path to purification that will change our relationship to reactive patterns.

By Ken McLeod

Winter 2017

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

Jun 06, 2017

A Crooked Tree in Changing Times

The idea that one has to be engaged with the problems of the world to be a real Buddhist is a very recent notion.

By Ken McLeod

Jan 20, 2017

Trike Daily Society & Environment

Forget About Being A Buddhist. Be A Human.

There is no “Buddhist response” to social, economic, and political issues of our time.

By Ken McLeod

Nov 04, 2016

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Why I Walk Two Paths

Theravada is “heretical” and Mahayana is for “devils”—at least that’s how they see each other sometimes. In reality, they go hand-in-hand.

By Gil Fronsdal

Sep 19, 2018

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The Buddhist Review

You Are What You Read

As the dharma is made relatable to modern Western culture, do Buddhism’s foundational texts risk becoming obsolete?

By Gabriel Lefferts

Fall 2018

Dharma Talks

Video teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers

Waking Up by Breaking Down Barriers

Meditation can be painful. Especially if it’s practiced for long hours in a Zen retreat. But that’s not why Rinzai Zen teacher Genki Roshi once described meditation to his student Kurt Spellmeyer as “dying on the cushion.” In this series, Spellmeyer, now a Zen priest, takes a closer look at what exactly “dies” on the cushion—our sense of self, the death of which allows us to exist in perpetual harmony with the surrounding world. When meditative insight rids the self of barriers, what remains is an open gate of awareness and communication.

Kurt Spellmeyer

Sep 2018

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Ken McLeod

Magazine Meditation & Practice

How Samaya Works

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Bodhicitta Explained

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

Forget About Consistency

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

The Progress Question

Trike Daily Teachings

Let Mind Nature Be Your Guru through Mystical Devotion

Magazine History & Philosophy

Forgiveness Is Not Buddhist

Trike Daily

Prayer Without Blind Faith

Trike Daily

A Crooked Tree in Changing Times

Trike Daily Society & Environment

Forget About Being A Buddhist. Be A Human.