Martine Batchelor

Martine Batchelor is a former nun who studied in the Korean Zen tradition of Master Kusan for ten years. She is the translator of Kusan Sunim's The Way of Korean Zen (Weatherhill) and the co-editor of Buddhism and Ecology (Cassell, London).

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

How the Buddha Deals with Difficult Thoughts

In her new online course, Martine Batchelor shares lessons from the Vitakkasanthana Sutta.

By Martine Batchelor

Mar 24, 2021

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

Meditation Month 2019: Listening with Compassion

Week 2 of Martine Batchelor’s guided meditation video series

With Martine Batchelor

Mar 08, 2019

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

Meditation Month 2019: Beginning with Mindfulness

Week 1 of Martine Batchelor’s guided meditation videos

With Martine Batchelor

Mar 01, 2019

Dharma Talks

Four Practices for a Firm Foundation

Martine Batchelor takes a look at the nuts and bolts of meditation to help you develop a firm foundation.

By Martine Batchelor

Mar 2019

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

The Woman in the Photograph

A meditation teacher reflects on identifying with her former self

By Martine Batchelor

Apr 03, 2014

pop-art style photos of a buddha statue, meditation creative imagination

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Meditation, Mental Habits, and Creative Imagination

The following was excerpted from Martine Batchelor’s Tricycle Online Retreat “Break Your Addictive Patterns.”

By Martine Batchelor

Fall 2010

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Instructions for Listening Meditation

Try to sit stable like a mountain and vast like the ocean. Listen to the sounds as they occur. Do not imagine, name, or analyze the sounds. Just listen with wide-open awareness. Let the sounds come to you and touch your eardrums. Go inside the sounds and notice their fluid nature. If there are no […]

By Martine Batchelor

Fall 2010

Dharma Talks

Break Your Addictive Patterns

In this 4-part video teaching former Korean Zen nun and author Martine Batchelor will teach a form of Buddhist meditation that helps to break through addictive patterns. Written material for supplementary reading will be included.

By Martine Batchelor

Jun 2010

Magazine

What I’m Reading Winter 2008

I just finished Vinegar Into Honey: Seven Steps To Understanding And Transforming Anger, Aggression, And Violence, by Ron Leifer (Snow Lion, 2008). I’m interested in emotional patterns, and I was curious to see how Leifer, a psychiatrist and Buddhist meditation teacher, would suggest working with anger. The title is a Tibetan metaphor for transforming negative […]

By Martine Batchelor

Winter 2008