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Earth Day 2013: The Best of Tricycle’s Green Archives

Happy Earth Day! Throughout the years, Tricycle has celebrated the relationship between the teachings of Buddhism and eco-consciousness. In 2009, we decided to walk the walk instead of just talking the talk: we were proud to…

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Apr 22, 2013

Final Week of Gina Sharpe’s Retreat: Granting Forgiveness

In this last week’s teaching of insight meditation teacher Gina Sharpe’s retreat, “Granting Forgiveness,” she reviews the past weeks’ practices that have culminated in the final and most difficult aspect of forgiveness: granting it to those…

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Apr 22, 2013

Third Week of Gina Sharpe’s Retreat: Asking for Forgiveness

In this third week’s installment of insight meditation teacher Gina Sharpe’s retreat, “Asking for Forgiveness,” she requests that we reflect on those thoughts, words, and deeds that we feel we would like to be forgiven for.…

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Apr 15, 2013

The World is Places: Extras from the Current Issue of Tricycle

For every interview or feature that appears in the pages of Tricycle, there sits a pile of editorial content on the cutting room floor that didn’t make the final version. But that’s what the Internet is…

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Apr 11, 2013

Zen Graffiti

Jens Jansen is ordained in the Soto Zen lineage. He teaches art and design in Frankfurt, Germany. Photos

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Apr 09, 2013

Second Week of Gina Sharpe’s Retreat: Forgiving Ourselves

In the second week’s teaching of Gina Sharpe’s retreat, “Forgiving Ourselves,” she walks us through the first steps on the path of forgiveness, focusing on the initial process of forgiving ourselves and relieving the burden of…

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Apr 08, 2013

New Online Retreat: The Power of Forgiveness: Forgiving Ourselves and Others

Our new April online retreat with Gina Sharpe, co-founder of the New York Insight Meditation Center, addresses the difficult topic of forgiveness as a personal practice. Reflecting on the meaning of forgiveness, exploring what it is…

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Apr 01, 2013

Developing Insight: Final Week of Segyu Rinpoche’s Retreat

In this final week of Segyu Rinpoche’s online retreat, Developing Insight, he provides the final building block to Juniper’s methodology for awakening the mind. The world, he says, is constructed of learned concepts—from the time we are born we are taught what is…

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Mar 25, 2013

Cultivating Compassion: Third Week of Segyu Rinpoche’s Retreat

In this week’s online retreat teaching, Cultivating Compassion, Segyu Rinpoche discusses the development of compassion and warns of the harmful pitfalls that often stem from our desire to help others. Rinpoche outlines compassion in three steps: motivation, action, and skillful means. Though empathy and the motivation to ease…

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Mar 18, 2013