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TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Generosity (and Greed) Introduction
An introduction to the special section
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
On Not Being Stingy
The Eighth Zen Precept is about more than emptying your pockets.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
As If There Is Nothing to Lose
How giving comes from gratitude.
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Erotic Life of Emptiness
We are the world unfolding.
Features
The Heartful Dodger
A charismatic ex-con lures at-risk kids away from violence.
The Path of Faith and the Path of Reasoning
Dissecting devotion
Finding a Shallow Cave
Elijah, Muhammad, Milarepa, Francis of Assisi–all dwelled in the twilight of mountain caves. These didn’t have to be very deep. In fact, it was better if they weren’t. Such caves were selected because they were private,…
A Green Meditation Retreat
Did you know Clark Strand led a Green Meditation online retreat from March 1st through March 22nd, 2010? Take a look here. At a press conference in April 2009, the White House science czar John Holdren…
Turn Out the Lights
Under the cover of night, Clark Strand discovers a lost state essential to wakefulness.
Departments
Magazine | Dedication of Merit
A Blessing for Wedding
Today when persimmons ripenToday when fox-kits come out of their den into snowToday when the spotted egg releases its wren songToday when the maple sets down its red leavesToday when windows keep their promise to openToday…
Almanac
This past December, dressed in down coats and lined boots, representatives from over 190 countries met on the darkest and coldest days of the year in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss, of all things, legislation to prevent…
MeditationMagazine | Remembrance
Being Love By Loving
Bonnie Myotai Treace, Sensei, honors her teacher.
IdeasMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
I Think I Am
The five ways I don't belong to me
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Gardening
Groundwork
A tree-planting challenge
The Lioness’ Roar
A shout-out to the lost ladies of Zen
Unicycle
Questioning Your Spirituality Since 2010
Our Glass House
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
Good Work
When Cyclone Nargis hit Burma in May 2008, it took the lives of nearly 150,000 people and left at least a million homeless. While relief organizations waited at the country’s borders to deliver aid, the Foundation…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Interview
Starting from Scratch
A talk with Stephen Batchelor
What the Buddha Taught?
People have always made sense of the present through understanding the past. Usually, we arrived at the past through a blend of myth, legend, spoken accounts of actual events, and perhaps written records. While historical study…
Letters Spring 2010
I Heart Tomatoes Tomatoes and avocados are my favorite fruit (after mangos, that is). Growing up, it was impossible for me to imagine life without them. In fact, in the diary my mother kept about me…
From the Belly of the Beast
The story of a high lama raised in Communist China
Curds and the Middle Way
You can't get enlightened on an empty stomach
Take Note
The members of the Nyingma Monlam Chenmo International, representing more than 300 Nyingma monasteries in Tibet, India, and Bhutan, unanimously nominated E. Gene Smith to receive a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to the preservation…
The Sword Disappears in the Water
Completely immersed in the way, the way becomes you.
A Retreat of One’s Own
A visit with the dharma teacher Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel.
This May Be Heaven Or This May Be Hell
Reinventing oneself in Bangkok
This Buddhist Life: George Mumford
George Mumford sports-psychology consultant for the Boston College men’s basketball team and LA Lakers meditation coachAge: 59 Location: Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts How did you get into dharma?I got into the practice via stressreduction, which was…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | This Life
Dear Abbey Dharma Spring 2010
Dear Abbey Dharma,I’m concerned that my mindfulness practice is making me indifferent. I still feel genuinely connected when I sit at the bedside of a dying person or with a person who comes to see me…
Poetry
Searching for My Old Teacher Still looking for you in the high reeds near El Salto small pond in a dry country You told me I would be safe no matter where I went or what…
The Rebel Abbot of Zen Mountain
Snapshots of John Daido Loori Roshi
What I’m Reading Spring 2010
River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across AmericaWilliam Least Heat-Moon Penguin, 2001 506 pp., $14 paper A River Sutra Gita Mehta Vintage, 1994 291 pp., $14.95 paper Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future…
This Buddhist Life: Serena Edwards
Serena Edwards contemporary dancer/bartender Age: 28 Location: New York City How did you get into dharma? The easy way: my parents got me in. Do you have a particular lineage subscription? Nyingma—from my parents. Vegetarian? I…
Books in Brief Spring 2010
“Runaway Moon” (SB Gallery, New York, 2010, $30.00 paperback, 48 pp.) is a series of paintings by the artist Minette Mangahas that tell the story of a frightened horse being chased by the moon. The moon…
Novice Monks in Sri Lanka
“The Bhikkhu who, while still young, devotes himself to the Buddha’s Teaching, illuminates this world like the moon freed from a cloud.” –The Buddha …
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | This Life
Animal Realm
The first pet I ever had of my own was a fledgling mockingbird I named Brighty. I found him while I was staying at my grandmother’s in Texas one spring. I rescued him from the dive…
What I’m Listening To
There is a word in German for a tune that gets lodged in your memory—Ohrwurm; literally translated it is “earworm.” I woke up one morning with the simple piano introduction to Nina Simone’s version of the…
Contributors Spring 2010
KHENPO TSÜLTRIM GYAMTSO is a Buddhist master who trained extensively with yogis living in the remote monasteries and caves of Tibet. In 1959, local nuns asked him for protection from the invading Communists, and he led…
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
Open Stillness
Uncertainty is liberating.