Special Section
Commit to Sit: Metta
Working with Metta
By Tricycle
Get Daily Dharma in your email
Start your day with a fresh perspective
Log In
Start your day with a fresh perspective
The Buddhist Review
Back Issues Working with Metta
By TricycleCommit to Sit: Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge Introduction Working with Aversion The Five Precepts Working with Metta Week 1: The Breath Working with Sense Doors Week 2: The Body Seated Meditation Tips Week 3: Emotions & Hindrances Working with Hindrances Week 4: Thoughts Meditation Supplies Supplementary Material 7 Simple Exercises According to classical Buddhist teachings, […]
By TricycleCommit to Sit: Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge Introduction Working with Aversion The Five Precepts Working with Metta Week 1: The Breath Working with Sense Doors Week 2: The Body Seated Meditation Tips Week 3: Emotions & Hindrances Working with Hindrances Week 4: Thoughts Meditation Supplies Supplementary Material 7 Simple Exercises WEEK FOUR: Thoughts You’ve made […]
By TricycleTips for working with hindrances in daily life
By TricycleCommit to Sit: Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge Introduction Working with Aversion The Five Precepts Working with Metta Week 1: The Breath Working with Sense Doors Week 2: The Body Seated Meditation Tips Week 3: Emotions & Hindrances Working with Hindrances Week 4: Thoughts Meditation Supplies Supplementary Material 7 Simple Exercises WEEK THREE: Emotions & Hindrances […]
By TricycleCommit to Sit: Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge Introduction Working with Aversion The Five Precepts Working with Metta Week 1: The Breath Working with Sense Doors Week 2: The Body Seated Meditation Tips Week 3: Emotions & Hindrances Working with Hindrances Week 4: Thoughts Meditation Supplies Supplementary Material 7 Simple Exercises Just as with desire, we […]
By TricycleCommit to Sit: Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge Introduction Working with Aversion The Five Precepts Working with Metta Week 1: The Breath Working with Sense Doors Week 2: The Body Seated Meditation Tips Week 3: Emotions & Hindrances Working with Hindrances Week 4: Thoughts Meditation Supplies Supplementary Material 7 Simple Exercises The Five Precepts We begin […]
By TricycleThis week we will continue to work with the breath and begin to incorporate other sensations in the body into our meditation practice. For this second week, you are asked to meditate for twenty minutes twice a day and to practice walking meditation for twenty minutes once a day. Instructions follow for working with sensations […]
By TricycleCommit to Sit: Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge Introduction Working with Aversion The Five Precepts Working with Metta Week 1: The Breath Working with Sense Doors Week 2: The Body Seated Meditation Tips Week 3: Emotions & Hindrances Working with Hindrances Week 4: Thoughts Meditation Supplies Supplementary Material 7 Simple Exercises The three most common types […]
By TricycleGetting the most from your seated meditation
By TricycleCommit to Sit: Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge Introduction Working with Aversion The Five Precepts Working with Metta Week 1: The Breath Working with Sense Doors Week 2: The Body Seated Meditation Tips Week 3: Emotions & Hindrances Working with Hindrances Week 4: Thoughts Meditation Supplies Supplementary Material 7 Simple Exercises Posture, Posture, Posture In […]
By TricycleCommit to Sit: Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge Introduction Working with Aversion The Five Precepts Working with Metta Week 1: The Breath Working with Sense Doors Week 2: The Body Seated Meditation Tips Week 3: Emotions & Hindrances Working with Hindrances Week 4: Thoughts Meditation Supplies Supplementary Material 7 Simple Exercises WEEK ONE: The Breath For […]
By Tricycle7 Exercises for Taking Your Practice into the World
By Tricycle
How can Western intellectuals have so much blood on their hands? Pankaj Mishra blames an ideologically driven faith in our ability to control history.
By Pankaj Mishra
Vicki Mackenzie investigates the mystery of Buddhist relics.
By Vicki MackenzieHow 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.
By jacob needleman
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.
By Vishvapani
My son was less than twenty-four hours old, and I knew he was going to die. The yellow cotton hat snuggled on his precious head, the brown handknit blanket securing his winging arms, he lay silently in the neonatal-ICU clear plastic crib. Veins no longer pricked, oxygen hood gone, lungs finally clear, he was healthy. […]
By Sarah AcetoKurosawa and the insubstantial self
By Dean Sluyter
Life lessons from a cadaver
By Hannah Tennant-MooreOutriderAnne WaldmanLa Alameda Press, 2006178 pp.; $18.00 (paper) “Outrider is a line of demarcation. It’s words-obsession for the honor, dignity of a mind ill at ease, restless, jumping from desk to orally standing-at-attention, examining itself. A maker of poetry.” This is Anne Waldman’s first of many descriptions of the poetic Outrider tradition celebrated in this […]
By TricycleA physicist sees science as spiritual practice
By Adam FrankTales from the Upper-Middle Path
By Dan ZigmondMyyy Karuna It is a great pleasure whenever Tricycle celebrates the progress of Buddhist nuns. Ven. Karuna Dharma is an inspiration and a wonderful exemplar of Buddhism in the West—forthright, nondogmatic, and innovative in helping Buddhist nuns of every tradition. I hope that your readers will also come to appreciate the achievements of Buddhist nuns […]
By TricycleThe Ten Harmful Activities
By Khandro RinpocheReasserting the fundamentals
By Jack Downey
Pages from Asiaddict, a cartoon travelog by Mats!?
By TricycleI once asked an Israeli antiwar activist how realistic her hopes for peace were; she had advocated a “one-state” solution in Israel/Palestine, expecting Israelis and Palestinians to live under one flag. Her answer caught me off guard. “How realistic is this?” she shot back, referring to the second intifadah, which was peaking at the time. […]
By James ShaheenThe Buddha’s liberating teaching of interdependent origination.
By Andrew Olendzki
Recognizing the fleeting nature of the world.
By Dilgo Khyentse RinpocheCh’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.
By Chan Master Sheng YenGinsberg’s long path to Howl
By Michael Schumacher
Take Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge and go on retreat without leaving home.
By TricycleHow 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 Stephen A. Evans.
By Stephen Evans
With Tibetan Buddhism and Carl Jung as his guides, Rob Preece takes us on a journey to freedom.
By Rob PreeceThe secret life of bees
By Wendy Johnson
Understanding the wisdom of the great Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna with the help of three pivotal Western thinkers
By David LoyMarcia Lieberman documents the private space of meditation.
By marcia liebermanPankaj Mishra, whose essay “The Disappearance of the Spiritual Thinker” appears in this issue, tells us, “I grew up in India reading Western literature and philosophy, and nothing seemed to me to be more attractive than the life of the intellectual. I have lost that reverence and now wonder how intellectuals could have lent their […]
By TricycleREVEREND 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
By Reverend Chan Tu
Lin Jensen explains the trouble with attributing spiritual significance to the simple activities of our lives.
By Lin Jensen