In his Dharma Talk on right effort, Theravada monk Bhante Sanathivahari explains how to replace and protect ourselves from unwholesome states in the mind.

In an excerpt from Tricycle’s newest online course, “Reimagining the Eightfold Path,” Stephen Batchelor describes why the path metaphor is so powerful and how we might approach this foundational Buddhist teaching today. 

In a recent episode of Tricycle Talks, Zen teacher Koshin Paley Ellison lays out the distinction between toxic shame and healthy embarrassment.

Buddhism advises us to accept everything in our experience, pleasant and unpleasant, as our own. One practitioner on using the Buddha’s first teachings as a lodestar during the frightening uncertainty of aging.

And why right speech begins with good listening

When the Buddha defined views as “wrong” or “right,” he was not presenting a dogmatic or moralistic way of looking at the world, but rather pointing out that certain views lead to the end of suffering.