Wendy Johnson

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

Peace Made of Non-peace Elements

As wildfires destroyed homes in California, a group of veterans who sat peacefully in a meditation retreat offered a stark contrast.

By Wendy Johnson

Apr 26, 2019

The Boundless Field of Ecological Chaplaincy

In training Buddhist chaplains, one instructor turns toward the earth for a lesson on how to serve all living things as they blossom or decay.

By Wendy Johnson

Nov 21, 2018

gardening shovel shaped like a gun, digging into earth next to a flower, alchemy for regeneration

Magazine Society & Environment

An Alchemy for Regeneration

The Atlanta-based organization Lead to Life: A People’s Alchemy for Regeneration has a commitment to nonviolence bolstered by spiritual insight and dedicated action.

By Wendy Johnson

Fall 2018

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Forest Thicket Practice

How mindfully planting and caring for an apple orchard can cultivate literal and figurative fruit.

By Wendy Johnson

Summer 2018

Fire burning in Stanislaus National Forest, California fires

Magazine Society & Environment

Forest Refuge

In the aftermath of California’s devastating forest fires, Tricycle columnist Wendy Johnson reflects on the link between environmental destruction and regeneration.

By Wendy Johnson

Spring 2018

Spiral of Gratitude

A Buddhist practitioner summons gratitude on the eve of a Native American harvest tradition.

By Wendy Johnson

Winter 2017

The Whole Earth is Medicine

Longtime columnist Wendy Johnson reflects on the meanings (and uses) of sage.

By Wendy Johnson

Fall 2017

Wild Mustard and the Way of Zen

Our resident gardener renews her gratitude to a pioneering woman of Buddhism

By Wendy Johnson

Summer 2017

Standing with Standing Rock

Tricycle’s longest-running columnist recounts a visit to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota

By Wendy Johnson

Feb 17, 2017

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Mindfulness of the Four Elements: Reconnecting with the World

In the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha taught practitioners to contemplate the four elements—earth, fire, water, and air—as a foundation of mindfulness practice. Our Meditation Month teacher, Sebene Selassie, shows how this oft-overlooked practice of examining the elements as basic metaphors for experience can help us see our inherent connections to nature.

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Mar 2020

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