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The Disappearance of the Spiritual Thinker
How can Western intellectuals have so much blood on their hands? Pankaj Mishra blames an ideologically driven faith in our ability to control history.
The Great Escape
Vishvapani travels across India to witness thousands of the nation’s underclass take refuge in a new form of Buddhism and break free from the oppressive caste system.
Jeweled Demise
Vicki Mackenzie investigates the mystery of Buddhist relics.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Bread and Stone
How do you recognize an authentic spiritual teacher? By honestly facing up to this age-old question, philosopher Jacob Needleman and his students discover an unexpected truth.
Special Sections
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit
Take Tricycle's 28-day meditation challenge and go on retreat without leaving home.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: The Five Precepts
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Week One, The Breath
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Week Two, The Body
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Week Three, Emotions & Hindrances
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Week Four, Thoughts
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Seated Tips
Getting the most from your seated meditation
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Metta
Working with Metta
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Sense Doors
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Hindrances
Tips for working with hindrances in daily life
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Aversion
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Meditation Supplies
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Posture, Posture, Posture
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Commit to Sit: Into the World
7 Exercises for Taking Your Practice into the World
Departments
Contributors Spring 2007
Featured contributors include Pankaj Mishra, Michael Schumacher, Jacob Needleman, Vicki Mackenzie, and Vishvapani.
Means and Ends
A letter from Tricycle's editor
Letters to the Editor Spring 2007
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
Wash Your Bowl
Lin Jensen explains the trouble with attributing spiritual significance to the simple activities of our lives.
Incomparable You
Ch'an Master Sheng Yen comments on two lines of the beloved sixth-century poem the Hsin Hsin Ming, or "Faith in Mind," by the third Zen patriarch, Seng Ts'an.
Complete Abandon
The ten harmful activities
A City of Dreams
Recognizing the fleeting nature of the world.
Thoughts on my teacher: No Hair in Your Mind
Reverend Chan Tu on her relationship with the late most Venerable Dr. Thich Man Giac, Supreme Patriarch of the Vietnamese United Buddhist Churches of America, who passed away October 13, 2006, at the age of 77
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Practice
As If I Were Your Mother
Awakening to an unconditional love
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Science
In the Light of Truth
A physicist sees science as spiritual practice
Not Our Bodies, Not Ourselves
Life lessons from a cadaver
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Solace of Surrender
With Tibetan Buddhism and Carl Jung as his guides, Rob Preece takes us on a journey to freedom.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Portfolio
Pause
Marcia Lieberman documents the private space of meditation.
The Dharma of Deconstruction
Understanding the wisdom of the great Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna with the help of three pivotal Western thinkers
TeachingsMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
A Universal Formula
The Buddha's liberating teaching of interdependent origination.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
The Birds of the Muses
The secret life of bees
The Shadow Knows
Kurosawa and the insubstantial self
Prelude to a Poem
Ginsberg's long path to Howl
So You Think You’re a Buddhist
Reasserting the fundamentals
La-La Dharma
Tales from the Upper-Middle Path
Found in Translation
How do you take an ancient text written in a dead language and reveal its wisdom to the English-speaking world? Pali Scholar Dr. Peter Masefield discusses the toil and exhilaration of translating the Buddha's words with…
Books in Brief
Covering the latest in Buddhist publishing
Buddha and Brimstone
Pages from Asiaddict, a cartoon travelog by MATS!?