Trike Daily Teachings
The Brave Parrot: Being Small in a Big, Troubled World
What a tale about Buddha’s past life as a bird can teach us about waking up through compassion.
Translation and commentary by Rafe Martin
Magazine Teachings
The Dog’s Tooth
Once, as a Tibetan trader was preparing to leave on his travels, his mother asked him if he would bring her back a relic from India, the land of the Buddha. “I’m too old to make such a pilgrimage now,” she said. The son assured his mother that he would find her a holy relic. […]
By Rafe Martin
