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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.
Stories of past masters are central to Zen practice, but nearly all of those stories are about men. In this series, Tenku Ruff, Osho, shines a light on the lives of four exemplary Zen women who embody the qualities of courage, compassion, equanimity, and authenticity.
Sensei José Shinzan Palma breaks down the false dichotomy between practice in the meditation hall and life “in the real world,” and shows how this realization of practice’s immediacy can transform our lives into a compassionate expression of service.
To raise mindful, compassionate children, parents must first establish a strong foundation in their own practice to serve as a model. Sumi Loundon Kim, a Buddhist chaplain and author of the Sitting Together parenting curriculum, provides immediately applicable practices for your family’s daily routines and shows how to recognize and address harmful family patterns.
In Vajrayana practice, negative and positive emotions, broken down into five types, are two sides of the same coin; when purified, negative emotions transform into their enlightened form. Karla Jackson-Brewer shows us how to nourish Tibetan Buddhism’s empowered feminine principle to put this transformation into effect.
Explore the Buddha’s ancient guidelines for right speech with tools to translate those teachings into the fast-paced conversations of a digital world. Insight meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer shares three foundations of mindful communication to bring your deeper values and intentions into every interaction.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
Journey into Asia’s past and present in this ode to societal impermanence, a sweeping visual odyssey in Mongolia and Japan narrated by the diaries of the 19th-century Finnish traveler and linguist G. J. Ramstedt.
Martti Kaartinen and Niklas KullströmThe Buddhist Review
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 OlinskyDaily wisdom, teachings & critique
A Zen student’s composition for percussion quartet uses the sound of scrap wood to convey a Buddhist sutta’s teachings.
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