Video teachings with contemporary Buddhist teachers
Do you have a difficult relationship with your thoughts? Your body? The feelings that visit you time and time again? Welcome to the club. In this dharma talk series, Pascal Auclair, a cofounder of True North Insight in Ontario, Canada, presents methods outlined by the Buddha in the Phena Sutta that can help you find congruence among body, heart, and mind.
We form our identities around views and perceptions that are often distortions. These distortions can crystallize into racism and internalized oppression. Bonnie Duran, a professor of public health and a cofounder of the People of Color Sangha in Albuquerque and Seattle, will discuss the timeless Vipallasa Sutta, which contains one of the primary teachings the Buddha gave about undoing distortions of the mind, so we can start to remedy the flawed ways we see ourselves and one another.
We all play roles in our families—the calm elder sibling, the generous uncle, the wise parent—and each role comes with a set of expectations. Join meditation teacher Bart van Melik, who teaches mindfulness in juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters, and New York City public schools, as he uses the Buddha’s four noble truths to find new and supportive ways for us to approach the stresses we all face at home.
Real happiness is far from personal; it is a communal matter. Join Ayya Yeshe, a longtime Tibetan Buddhist nun and founder of the Bodhicitta Foundation, as she explores bodhisattva training, or the spiritual commitment to work for the enlightenment of all beings.
What are you afraid of? For many of us, the list is long. In this series, Tibetan Buddhist nun Marcela Clavijo introduces the four immeasurables—love, compassion, joy, and equanimity—which help us replace unhelpful habits of mind and behavior for positive states and traits. With practice, these teachings can help assuage our deepest fears, whatever they may be.
What can you expect to find when you set out on a path of spiritual development? The answer is not as mysterious as you may think. In this dharma talk series, Barbara Joshin O’Hara, Sensei walks us through the classic Zen blueprint of the path to enlightenment: the ten oxherding pictures, which clearly lay out each step along the way to awakening.
In this Dharma Talk, Ruben L. F. Habito, a former Jesuit priest turned Zen master, will show you the relationship between practice and the positive effects it can have on ourselves and others if we develop it diligently.
In this retreat, mental health counselor and meditation teacher Mindy Newman will identify the places in our practice where we might inadvertently succumb to what is commonly referred to as “spiritual bypassing.”
The modern rendering of Buddhism’s first noble truth might be “shit happens.” But our struggles can be fertilizer for our spiritual practice instead of waste. Writer, scholar, and meditation teacher Jay Michaelson, Ph.D., will speak about four ways that embracing life’s “shit”—difficult emotions in particular—can open us up to the fullness of our experience.
How can we live meaningful, purposeful, and ethical lives in a world where injustice seems to multiply by the day? A 16th-generation Zen priest in the Rinzai lineage, Reverend Masaki Matsubara, Ph.D., will introduce ways to bring dignity into our own lives and the lives of others as he explores Zen Buddhism’s model for ethical engagement.
Ruth King presents four practices for ungripping the heart and mind based on the four foundations of mindfulness.
It seems obvious: we would not be able to practice without our body. And yet we often take the body for granted, viewing it as little more than a source of suffering rather than the precious opportunity for cultivation that it is. In this series, meditation teacher Ralph Steele renews our appreciation for the body by delving into embodied mindfulness, concentration, and insight practices from the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
In honor of Black History Month, Tricycle is presenting a special video series with 13 Buddhist teachers of color.
Nobody’s perfect, and it’s never more obvious to us than when we take a vow and find ourselves falling short. Throughout this series, Soto Zen teacher Susan Moon will look at our vows to practice the Buddhist precepts and teach us to view ourselves with compassion and humor when we make mistakes.
We aren’t in control in the way we think we are. Things happen, even terrible things, but they are not what they seem to be. And we aren’t alone. There is a light, a luminosity behind the appearances of this world.
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