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Right tweeting advice from @TinyBuddha
By Lori Deschene
The Life and Death of a Local Legend
By Clark StrandThe tales we tell ourselves
By Alex Gooch
Buddhism-inspired contemporary art at the Rubin Museum of Art, through April 11
By Anne DoranGreat compassion is like the sky, because it covers all living beings; great compassion is like the earth, because it produces all the teachings; great compassion makes it possible to see buddhanature, by first clarifying real knowledge for the sake of others. Great compassion makes it possible to pass through unyielding barriers, by plumbing the […]
By Thomas Cleary, Translated by Zenmaster Torei
If you’re out watering your flower garden by hand, you naturally concentrate the flow of water to benefit your beautiful flowers. If there’s an area of weeds, you don’t waste water there. As best you can, you avoid watering the weeds. It’s the same with your consciousness. You can learn to selectively water the positive […]
By Thomas BienRobert Aitken Roshi: The Last Interview
By Joel WhitneyThe “One Word” and “Spare Sense” versions
Translations by [Lewis Hyde] Lewis Hyde
Can a lie be right speech?
By Lin Jensen | Artwork by Mark Cocks
How to sustain your meditation practice
By Sharon SalzbergAn interview with Shamar Rinpoche
By TricycleThe World Is Made of StoriesBy David R. LoyWisdom Publications, 2010128 pp.; $15.95 paper Once upon a time . . . Thus I have heard . . . From the cradle on, we are reminded that “the world is made of stories,” as the poet Gary Snyder once wrote. Now the teacher and Buddhist scholar […]
By Alan SenaukeThe ghost fish of Montana
By Rick BassA Radical EvolutionI don’t have an answer to the question that Clark Strand asks in “The Path of Recovery” (Winter 2010). I live with these issues as a constant background noise in my mind, an ominous droning that invades every space and experience. The dismal prospects for our species and the lovely green world we […]
By TricycleThe only silence we know is the silence when noise stops, the silence when thought stops—but that is not silence. Silence is something entirely different, like beauty, like love. And this silence is not the product of a quiet mind, it is not the product of the brain cells which have understood the whole structure […]
By Jiddu KrishnamurtiPeople tell me meditation is easy but sticking with it is not. I could say “Just sit” (and I have), but that just annoys. In other words, I haven’t been much of a help. Until recently, that is, when I came up with a pretty simple—and all too obvious— idea: I asked a seasoned meditation […]
By James Shaheen
A Zen gardener plans for spring
By Wendy Johnson
When anyone asks me how I got involved in Buddhism, I always say it was because I was so angry with my husband. The truth is that he saved my life. When that marriage fell apart, I tried hard—very, very hard—to go back to some kind of comfort, some kind of security, some kind of […]
By Pema ChödrönAn Interview with Max Gimblett and Lewis Hyde
By Tricycle
A student offers glimpses of the late Zen master
By Roshi Paul Genki KahnCooking up a little something out of nothing
By Noa JonesWhere is Buddhism now?
By Stuart SmithersOnce a wandering ascetic, Moliya Sivaka, addressed the Blessed One as follows: “It is said, venerable sir, ‘The dhamma is directly visible.’ In what way, venerable sir, is the dhamma directly visible, immediate, inviting one to come and see, worthy of application, to be personally experienced by the wise?” “Well, Sivaka, I shall in return […]
By Tricycle
After days of darkness I didn’t understanda second of yellow sunlighthere and gone through a hole in cloudsas quickly as a flashbulb, an immensememory of a moment of grace withdrawn.It is said that we are here but seconds in cosmictime, twelve and a half billion years,but who is saying this and why?In the Salt Lake […]
By Jim HarrisonA spiritual path in poems and pictures
Artwork by [Max Gimblett] Translations by [Lewis Hyde] Max Gimblett
Three Steps to Eliminating Anger
By Andrew OlendzkiAn interview with John Welwood
By TricycleProfession: Vice Chancellor of the Royal University of BhutanAge: 60 Location: Bhutan When did you become a Buddhist? That’s a difficult question. I was born into a Buddhist family in a Buddhist country. But as you get older you ask questions—What more is there? What’s there beyond? What is this life for? My interest in […]
By TricycleDear Abbey Dharma,I have been on the Buddhist path for a large portion of my life. I practiced Zen while I was a teenager and practiced Tibetan Buddhism in my late 20s. Now, in my late 30s, I find myself going it alone after becoming weary of ritual. Do most people go through this weariness […]
By Sylvia BoorsteinOn Dogen’s Shobo Genzo, newly translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi
By Norman Fischer
Stay present, rain or shine.
By Larry RosenbergA Spinal Injury SanghaIn August of 2000, Kanak Mani Dixit, an editor and publisher from Kathmandu, Nepal, set out on a trek around the Annapurna Circuit trail, several hours north of his home. After he failed to return to Kathmandu a few days later, his brother went out in search of Dixit and eventually discovered […]
By Sam Mowe, Rachel HilesIn 2000, Joel Whitney (“No Mean Preacher”) had just left Tricycle, where he was website editor, to pursue an M.F.A. in poetry at Columbia. By 2003, he was teaching at Fordham University, had won a Discovery Prize for his poems, and was working on a poetry collection. But the week the first bombs fell on […]
By TricycleThis is additional information to Wendy Johnson’s “Seeds of Rebirth” article in the Spring 2011 issue ofTricycle. Seed Companies Baker Creek Heirloom Seedswww.rareseeds.com 2278 Baker Creek RoadMansfield, MO 65704417-924-8917 Offers open-pollinated natural and non GMO seeds. I love this company. They recently opened The Seed Bank in an old bank building in Petaluma California. They […]
By Wendy JohnsonGary Snyder has been a mosquito, and Jim Harrison would like to be a tree. These are two important things we learn from watching The Practice of the Wild, a documentary by John J. Healey featuring the old codgers (San Simeon/ Whole Earth Films, produced by Will Hearst and Jim Harrison, 52 min., DVD, $18.95). […]
By Sam MoweCan a power greater than ourselves put us back on the right course?
By Clark Strand