Personal Reflections Working with Pain
Inviting Disability Awareness into Zen
The cofounder of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association’s Priests with Disabilities affinity group talks with Tricycle about where Zen and disability meet.
Working with Pain
The Noble Truth of Pain
A teacher with a chronic affliction on the value of being present with physical suffering
Personal Reflections Working with Pain
Approaching Life as Training
How the rigors of monastic practice helped a Rinzai Zen priest to transform her relationship to tiredness and pain
Personal Reflections Working with Pain
From Fighting to Flourishing
Mindfulness teacher Vidyamala Burch shares how her relationship with her spinal injury shifted when she dropped the fantasy of finding a cure and prioritized healing instead.
A Gateway to Freedom
Freeing your mind in the face of suffering and the resistance that comes with it
Dancing in the Dark Fields: The Teachings of Illness
A chronic, painful illness delivers the message of a different kind of freedom to Zen priest Florence Caplow.
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.
The Sound of One Hand Healing
After breaking his hand, a physician gets a dose of present moment medicine.
Trying Not to Itch
A nightmarish retreat ends with a lesson in compassion toward oneself—and a doctor's appointment.
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