
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 author of The Spirit of the Buddha (Yale University Press). She teaches several online courses with Tricycle, including: Knowing How It Feels: Creatively Engaging with Habits and Reimagining the Eightfold Path.

How examining impermanence can liberate us from our fixed habits

Meditation Meditation Month 2021
How the Buddha Deals with Difficult Thoughts
In her new online course, Martine Batchelor shares lessons from the Vitakkasanthana Sutta.

Meditation Month 2019: Listening with Compassion
Week 2 of Martine Batchelor’s guided meditation video series

Meditation Month 2019: Beginning with Mindfulness
Week 1 of Martine Batchelor’s guided meditation videos

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.

Personal Reflections Meditation
The Woman in the Photograph
A meditation teacher reflects on identifying with her former self

MeditationMagazine | Online Retreats
Meditation, Mental Habits, and Creative Imagination
The following was excerpted from Martine Batchelor’s Tricycle Online Retreat “Break Your Addictive Patterns.”

MeditationMagazine | Online Retreats
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…

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.

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