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An arms manufacturer’s son visits home after moving to a Zen monastery.
By Shozan Jack Haubner
Greedy, Aversive, or Deluded? Find out with this guide—and quiz!
By Amita Schmidt
Buddhism has been a boon to the West. Can the West return the favor?
By David Loy
The famed American Zen teacher, clown, and social worker is thinking big—again.
By Joan Duncan OliverContributors include Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Danny Fisher, Amita Schmidt, and David Meanix.
By TricycleA letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
By James Shaheen
Our readers respond to Tricycle’s print and online stories.
By Tricycle
As Reggie Ray explains, finding embodiment in meditation is a social matter.
By Reggie Ray![[Watercolor image of candlelight] © Rami Efal gratitude and generosity](https://cdn.tricycle.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/rich-generosity_spring-2009-560x400.jpg)
Master Sheng Yen on transferring merit
By Master Sheng-Yen
Sharon Salzberg offers a lesson in compassion.
By Sharon Salzberg
Fetch? Balls and sticks capture my attention seconds at a time. Catch? I don’t think so. Bunny, tumbling leaf, a squirrel who’s–oh Joy—actually scared. Sniff the wind, then I’m off again: muck, pond, ditch, residue of any thrillingly dead thing. And you? Either you’re sunk in the past, half our walk, thinking of what you […]
By Mark Doty
Stephen and Ondrea Levine, counselors and meditation teachers, sit down with psychotherapist Barbara Platek to speak about easing the transition from life to death.
By Tricycle
Ravenna Michalsen keeps the dharma alive in song.
By Tricycle
Clark Strand walks the common ground of two great traditions.
By Clark Strand
Ezra Bayda teaches that by truly knowing our fears, we can break their spell
By Ezra BaydaTricycle’s 90-day Zen Meditation Challenge
By Tricycle, Andrew Cooper
Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara cuts through misconceptions to offer a thorough introduction to Zen practice.
By Roshi Pat Enkyo O'HaraRead more on Tricycle’s 90-day Zen meditation challenge The Big Sit Introduction Introduction to Zen Setting Up Your Home Altar Genjokoan The Value of A Vow How to Sit The Bodhisattva Precepts Sign up for the challenge now! During our 90-day practice period we will be following this traditional set of precepts, which begin by […]
By TricycleThis period of intensified practice allows us to examine how we can care for ourselves so that we are better able to serve others. By looking at the aspects of body, mind, and spirit we can address the totality of self. Fill out this form created by Reverend Jo-An Alan Tibbetts at Enkyo Roshi’s Village […]
By Tricycle
Most of us cannot afford a separate room for zazen, but all of us can make a corner sacred. Put your pad and cushion there, with a low table or shelf for incense, flowers, and a picture of Shakyamuni, Bodhidharma, Kanzeon, or one of the other great bodhisattvas or teachers in our lineage. The room […]
By Robert AitkenStudy Dogen’s Genjokoan, the text selected for Tricycle’s 90-day Zen Meditation Challenge
By TricycleRead more on Tricycle’s 90-day Zen meditation challenge The Big Sit Introduction Introduction to Zen Setting Up Your Home Altar Genjokoan The Value of A Vow How to Sit The Bodhisattva Precepts Join the Big Sit challenge! […]
By TricycleFor decades, Walter Nowick has been quietly blazing a Zen trail on the northern coast of Maine. His blue jeans disguise a remarkable history
By Dana SawyerAs both a Catholic nun and Zen roshi, Sister Elaine MacInnes provokes controversy while promoting inner peace.
By Ron Csillag
A portfolio by photographer David Meanix with text by contributing editor Mary Talbot
By Mary TalbotSharon Salzberg stopped by the Tricycle office on Friday, January 23rd, and spoke with managing editor Alex Kaloyanides about her new book, The Kindness Handbook, published by Sounds True. She also spoke about the Brahmaviharas or Four Immeasurables: Lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, and how these apply to the daily lives of Buddhists today. […]
By Tricycle
Mark and Taitetsu Unno speak with Tricycle’s Jeff Wilson about the subtle wisdom at the heart of Pure Land Buddhist practice
By Jeff WilsonSANDY BOUCHER attends this year’s Sakyadita Conference
By Sandy BoucherIn a time for remembrance, poppies thin the veil between worlds.
By Wendy JohnsonThe Writings of a Zen Missionary
By Michael HaederleGems from a quarter century of wisdom and irreverence
By RJ EskowHow Buddhism can help
By Mary TalbotIs fundamentalism a good reason to ditch religion?
By Philip Novak
As an artist and dharma student, I’ve always felt a deep connection to, and appreciation for, the calligraphy of the Japanese Zen masters. Initially I thought that Chinese Calligraphy (Yale University Press, 2008, $75.00 cloth), edited by Ouyang Zhongshi and Wen C. Fong, and translated by Wang Youfen, […]
By Frank Olinsky
With his first two books, Hardcore Zen and Sit Down & Shut Up, Brad Warner attracted a following—and no small amount of indignation at his irreverent take on the Buddha’s teachings. In his third effort, Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity […]
By Aaron Lackowski
The Path, Illustrated
By Tricycle