Working with Pain

image of a female head from behind, bent over; buddhism and chronic pain

More than This Body

We can’t rid ourselves of bodily pain, but by changing how we relate to it, we can awaken our minds.

By Ezra Bayda

Jun 25, 2018

The Sound of One Hand Healing

After breaking his hand, a physician gets a dose of present moment medicine.

By Robert J. Abramson

Aug 23, 2017

Trying Not to Itch

A nightmarish retreat ends with a lesson in compassion toward oneself—and a doctor’s appointment.

By Shin Yu Pai

Feb 20, 2015

Swamp Marigold

Sick and on the fringe, writer and mother Elizabeth Bastos looks to nature to find hope while living with chronic pain.

By Elizabeth Bastos

Dec 17, 2013

The Real Stuff

Sitting with Pain

By Cator Shachoy

Feb 06, 2013

A Real Pain in the Butt

Some hard facts about sitting, the sciatic nerve, aging, and your pelvis

By Cator Shachoy

Feb 04, 2013

Looking Back

Tricycle's Interview with Darlene Cohen

By Tricycle

Oct 16, 2012

Trike DailyPersonal Reflections

Growing Up Buddhist: Fish Sticks

One day, when I was about five or six years old, my brother Jon had just finished cooking fish sticks in the oven. The oven door had been opened and the fish sticks were.

By Tricycle

May 12, 2010

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Buddha Buzz Weekly: Vietnamese Monk and Activist Thich Tri Quang Dies at 95

Thich Tri Quang, a Buddhist political dissident during the Vietnam War dies, Myanmar court grants bail for detained anti-nationalist monk, and a Thai festival improves its trash problem. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.

By Karen Jensen

Nov 16, 2019

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The Buddhist Review

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The Mandala Master

For more than two decades, Losang Samten has spread lessons of interdependence in the West through Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas.

Interview with Losang Samten by Anne Doran and Frank Olinsky

Winter 2019

Dharma Talks

Video teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers

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Meditation & Practice

Good Question! The Art of Meditative Inquiry

The Buddha encouraged us to investigate our experiences, but some ways of questioning mire us in confusion while others are liberating. Dharma and Insight Meditation teacher Narayan Helen Liebenson helps us distinguish skillful from unskillful types of inquiry and approach life’s deepest questions with a spirit of wholesome curiosity.

Narayan Helen Liebenson

Nov 2019

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Working with Pain

Trike Daily Body & Mind

More than This Body

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The Sound of One Hand Healing

Trike Daily Body & Mind

Trying Not to Itch

Trike DailyBody & Mind

Swamp Marigold

Trike DailyBody & Mind

The Real Stuff

Trike DailyBody & Mind

A Real Pain in the Butt

Trike Daily

Looking Back

Trike DailyPersonal Reflections

Growing Up Buddhist: Fish Sticks