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TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Fifth Precept
Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron, Lama Palden, Allan Badiner, and Norman Fischer share their thoughts on refraining from intoxicants.
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Non-use of Intoxicants
The 5th Zen Precept
Recovery & the Fifth Precept
Don Lattin on how practice helped him recover from addiction
Features
The Yoga of Creativity
A novelist explains the relationship between meditative practice and the creative journey.
The Natural
How Jeff Bridges works with anxiety and maintaining a joyful mind.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Debacle
On the road with Thich Nhat Hanh in the early 1980s.
Why Meditate?
On the eve of the release of his new book, the French monk Matthieu Ricard spoke with Tricycle about science, meditation, and his title as “the happiest man in the world.”
Buddhist History for Buddhist Practitioners
How—and why—to teach Buddhist history to sometimes reluctant Buddhists.
Departments
Selected Contributors Fall 2010
Featured contributors include Kazuaki Tanahashi and Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
Letters to the Editor Fall 2010
Brian Victoria responds to a critique of his work by Nelson Foster and Gary Snyder in the Summer 2010 issue, and to Kemmyo Taira Sato’s critique in The Eastern Buddhist. Victoria has written extensively on the…
Web Exclusive—Letters to the Editor Fall 2010
I was a bit off balance in the Spring, 2010 issue. The new front section was a challenge for me to take in, but when I entered the feature section on stinginess, I was hooked. Yes,…
The Butler Wrote It
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
Dear Abbey Dharma Fall 2010
Dear Abbey Dharma, I recently took my refuge vows and have found the Buddhist path to be vast and wide. My struggle is, where to begin? I find death and dying, intentions, karma, and many more…
TeachingsMagazine | Brief Teachings
From Turning the Wheel of Truth: Commentary on the Buddha’s First Teaching
Select wisdom from sources old and new
TeachingsMagazine | Brief Teachings
From the Canon: Dog on a Leash
the Buddha, translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi
The Great Way: Memorial issue for Muge Daido Daiosho
Whenever Daido [John Daido Loori Roshi] was traipsing around in the mountains, he always had a camera with him. His scientific background in chemistry gave him a strong technical understanding of photographic processes. But it was…
Charities Fall 2010
Despite some of the best animal protection laws in the world and a renowned heritage of reverence for life, modern India is a country where millions of animals suffer severe neglect or abuse. Help Animals India…
An Interview with Wendell Garnett
Profession: studentAge: 32Location: Dharamsala, India Where are you from? New York, but I grew up in Panama. How did you get into Buddhism? When I was in college in Kentucky I met some Tibetan exchange students.…
A Thoughtful Brew
How to whip up a recipe for a hot cup of chai masala
The Call of the Abyss
The BP oil spill and the undersea realm of impenetrable darkness
If the Dalai Lama Were a Fisherman
I was in Hawaii, working on a story about whales—a big story, about big animals and the people who are drawn to them, a story that’s going to take months to write—and while out on the…
MeditationMagazine | Online Retreats
Meditation, Mental Habits, and Creative Imagination
The following was excerpted from Martine Batchelor’s Tricycle Online Retreat “Break Your Addictive Patterns.”
Eugène Burnouf (1801-1852)
How a French scholar introduced the Lotus Sutra to the West
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
Got Attitude?
Overcome blind reactivity to develop a skillful mind with Buddhist anger-management techniques.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Interview
The Great Experiment
Interview with Tim Olmsted
The Zen Circles of Kazuaki Tanahashi
Teacher, translator, and calligrapher
Magazine | Quotable, Web Exclusive
Reader Responses to the Fifth Precept
Tricycle readers’ thoughts on the fifth precept: refraining from intoxicants
The Power of an Open Question
Why a question can be a more powerful tool for practice than its answer
MeditationMagazine | Online Retreats
Instructions for Listening Meditation
Try to sit stable like a mountain and vast like the ocean. Listen to the sounds as they occur. Do not imagine, name, or analyze the sounds. Just listen with wide-open awareness. Let the sounds come…
TeachingsMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
The Other Dukkha
On suffering and why the Buddha left home
Magazine | Food, The Mindful Chef
What’s for Dinner?
First, seventy-two labors brought us this food; We should know how it comes to us. —Zen meal gatha (verse) We’ve all heard by now about the industrial feedlots that figure into the “farm-to-fork” commercial food chain.…
Secular Buddhism?
Confession of a Buddhist AtheistStephen BatchelorNew York: Spiegel & Grau2010, 320 pp., $26.00, cloth What do Buddhist teachings about impermanence and conditionality imply for Buddhism itself? As Buddhism spread throughout Asia, its encounters with different cultures…
How to Build a Caravan of Joy
The Mishap Lineage:Transforming Confusion into WisdomChögyam TrungpaEdited by Carolyn Rose Gimian,Shambhala Publications, 200905160 pp., $21.95 paper I almost met Chögyam Trungpa. When I arrived at the steps of the New York Historical Society, just off Central…
What I’m Reading Fall 2010
Wisdom: From Philosophy to NeuroscienceStephen S. HallAlfred A. Knopf, 2010333 pp., $27.95 cloth Half a century ago science, measuring our behavior with its languages of experimental cause and effect, might typically draw objections if not outcries…
Books in Brief Fall 2010
Lin Jensen is hard to disagree with. If his previous book, Pavement, in which he chronicles his search for peace on city streets, was an ode to activism, Deep Down Things: The Earth in Celebration and…
CultureMagazine | Dedication of Merit
What’s Mine
I’ve a fat-happy Buddha bellynot to be confusedwith Buddha mind, which is arrow-slim and quickas the knife of Ting the Cookslicing fresh ham. I do not claim to know the joysand sorrows of the koi in…