Martine Batchelor

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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

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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

Magazine Meditation & Practice

What Is This?

Martine Batchelor offers a Korean Zen koan practice to refresh our minds and open us to creative wisdom.

By Martine Batchelor

Fall 2008

Magazine Arts & Culture

Pray To Be Reborn A Man

Buddhist gender wars

By Martine Batchelor

Spring 2004

Magazine Meditation & Practice

A Refuge Into Being

Q & A on meditation

By Martine Batchelor

Winter 2002

Magazine Teachings

The Ten Oxherding Pictures

The ten oxherding pictures describe the, Zen training path to enlightenment, Folk images are accompanied by poems and commentaries. They depict a young oxherder whose quest leads him to tame, train, and transform his heart and mind, a process that is represented by subduing the ox. Even though these images are presented in a sequence, […]

By Martine Batchelor

Spring 2000