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Why should a Buddhist travel?
By Pico Iyer
An Interview with Stephen Batchelor
Interview with Stephen Batchelor by Sam Mowe
Pilgrimage has a rich religious background in Buddhist history. It is traditionally linked to devotion and faith, and the spiritual merit conferred by visiting sacred sites. The sites themselves are typically thought to be vested with great spiritual energy and power supportive of practice. In other words, things that are very un-modern. Traditional pilgrimage has […]
By Sam MoweSecular Buddhism is something to do, not something to believe in.
By Stephen BatchelorAn interview with Richard Gombrich, a historian of early Buddhism.
By Tricycle
An exploration of the background assumptions of the modern age and the unique challenges they present
By Linda Heuman
The Art of Mindful Networking
By Richard Eskow
What do we miss when we don’t read the whole sutta?
By Thanissaro BhikkhuAn Interview with Trinlay Tulku Rinpoche
By Pamela Gayle White
Life as a Recovering Addict
By Josh Korda
The Fate of the West Coast Lady Butterfly
By Wendy JohnsonUnited Nations leader Dag Hammarskjöld and Buddhism
By Roger LipseyThere is a funny story told by a very renowned swami from India. One time there was a guru, or master, and his disciple. They both were swamis, renunciants. The master taught the disciple informally. He didn’t read texts, and he didn’t elaborate on commentaries or holy scripture. Instead he taught informally through gestures and […]
By Anam Thubten
Each moment of cessation allows us to experience the still point of the turning world.
By Shinzen Young
Thus have I heard Once the eminent Buddhist scholar Edward Conzeknown for his translations of Perfect Wisdom, visited UC Santa Cruz to lecture He spent the entire period lambasting those who thought Buddhist insight might be achieved by eating organic food walking barefoot burning incense […]
By Andrew SchellingBefore Nicholas Vreeland became the first Western abbot of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, he was many things: an assistant to the photographer Irving Penn; a Tibetan monk; a recipient of a geshe degree. He has longest been, however, a photographer. When Vreeland held his first camera, he was a lonely teen in boarding school. These […]
By Nicholas VreelandLooking Beyond BuddhismI was drawn to Rita M. Gross’s provocative view that a “new golden age” of Buddhism could be facilitated if Buddhists of various sects opened their minds to studying each other’s teachings (“Buddhist to Buddhist,” Spring 2012). I found myself entirely agreeing, but I also found myself hoping that Gross would drop the other […]
By Tricycle
Almost two decades ago, the Theravada teacher Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (or Bhante G, as he is affectionately known) wrote Mindfulness in Plain English, a Buddhist classic known for its clear, direct, and practical explanations of mindfulness techniques. Following the publication of two subsequent mindfulness books over the years, he’s back again with The Four Foundations […]
By Emma VarvaloucasWhere the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists Kay Larson The Penguin Press, 2012 478 pp.; $29.95 cloth This will be the summer of John Cage anniversaries: 100 years since his birth, 20 years since his death, and 60 years since the first performance of his best-known composition, 4’33”. […]
By Dan Zigmond
How to Avoid the Many Pitfalls of Tea Brewing
By Noa JonesAn interview with Nicholas Vreeland
By Nicholas VreelandAn interview with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
By Rabbilynn Gottlieb
For Buddhists, samsara is the continuous cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. We keep wandering through these states of existence, suffering all the while, because we’re compulsively attached to a mistaken view of the way things are. The best way to understand what samsara feels like might be to reflect upon our addictions. Although […]
By Tricycle
The Right Mind is the mind that does not remain in one place. It is the mind that stretches throughout the entire body and self. The Confused Mind is the mind that, thinking something over, congeals in one place. When the Right Mind congeals and settles in one place, it becomes what is called the […]
By Takuan Soho
How to live beautifully with uncertainty and change
By Pema ChödrönProfession: Oncology nurse Age: 37Location: Denver, CO Which came first, becoming a Buddhist or becoming a nurse? I became a Buddhist first. I was 20 when I really knew that I was a Buddhist, and I didn’t become a nurse until I was 30. Being a nurse has been a great career for supporting my […]
By Rachel Hiles
Just do your best. This is the whole of practice, the whole of our life. All sorts of chatter comes up in the midst of the circumstances of our life. Something breaks, we clean it up or fix it up. Or we can start chattering about, “Why does this happen to me? Oh, I always […]
By Elihu Genmyo Smith
A physical sensation becomes an experience to be explored.
By Andrew OlendzkiSince our first issue, Tricycle has delivered traditional Buddhist teachings in an idiom and style relevant to the contemporary practitioner’s everyday life. How much has been lost—or gained—in adapting the traditional teachings has been a subject of much debate. It was inevitable, then, that alongside dharma teachings we would run articles that reflect critically on […]
By James Shaheen
Desire is everywhere. Every living thing has the desire to stay alive. Even plants “strive” to propagate themselves. Craving is our creator. Our parents’ craving for each other and our craving for rebirth combined to create us. Even painful feelings give rise to craving. When a painful feeling arises, we do not like it. We […]
By Bhante Henepola GunaratanaAn Interview with Jack Kornfield, Coleader of the New York Peace Walk
By The EditorsHeather Cox, whose artwork appears in“The Fundamental Ambiguity of Being Human” lives and works in New York City. Cox’s art often centers on precisely crafted objects that involve repetition and shifting scale. She uses a variety of materials—paper, pins, erasers, even aspirin and frosting—to address issues of visibility, discovery, and metamorphosis. Each piece invites a closer […]
By Tricycle
There is no ultimate truth. There is no relative truth.
By Ken McLeod
Searching for Antlers in Early Spring
By Rick BassAn Interview with Robert Chodo Campbell
By Sam Mowe, James Shaheen
An Encounter with Peter Hassen’s Artwork
By Noelle Oxenhandler