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UnStuff Your Life
Why do we hold on to things we don’t need? A guide to clearing clutter and forming new habits
Buddhist to Buddhist
How learning about other Buddhist traditions will help you understand your own.
Everyday Meditation
A Nine-Minute Daily Practice
Zen and the Art
Why the relationship between Zen and art is neither as simple nor as obvious as this cliché implies
The Pursuit of Happiness
Moving toward unconditional fulfillment and freedom
Pursuing an American Buddhism
Linda Heuman interviews pioneering scholar Charles Prebish
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Broken Gold
Three dharma practitioners share their stories of healing after a spiritual crisis.
Departments
Featured Contributors Spring 2012
Chaco Terada, whose photographs appear in “Zen and the Art,” began practicing calligraphy as a four-year-old child in Japan. She learned by observing her father, Soseki Terada, a master calligrapher, and copying his work. After Terada…
Letters to the Editor Spring 2012
A teacher and novelist Dan Zigmond’s review “Finding True Love,” (Fall 2011) seems to have used the vehicle of a book review not to review The Novice but rather to issue a diatribe against the life…
Tradition and Innovation
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
Dear Abbey Dharma
Dear Abbey Dharma, I often wonder about loving oneself and awareness. I am terrified of getting into a relationship, so I avoid pain by avoiding relationships. But I end up creating more pain for myself that…
Cooling Emotional Fires
Select wisdom from sources old and new
Creating Space
These days we have so many things to think about: our health, our family, our work, our dharma practice. When we don’t know how to deal with them, these worries can make our minds start to…
Finding Your Place
Select wisdom from sources old and new
Attention to Death
So many deaths I have been a part of, so many patients, families, caregivers, and volunteers have touched my life. Together we’ve created a kind of peaceful revolution whose battle cry is as quiet and profound…
Art As A Weapon
Last year street artist Shepard Fairey spent several days painting a three-story-high mural of a Burmese monk on the side of a building in downtown San Diego, and Breadtruck Films’ Jeffrey Durkin was there to film…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | This Buddhist Life
An interview with June Tanoue
Profession: Zen priest and hula instructor Age: 61 Location: Chicago Tell me about growing up on the Big Island of Hawaii. I grew up in a small plantation town. The plantations were pretty big when I…
Meditation Matcha
Brewing energy for practice
A Palace of Decay
The woods are alive with death
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Animal Realm
Many Mansions
The ladybugs of grave creek
MeditationMagazine | Online Retreats
The Whole of the Path
Life as practice
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Into the Demon’s Mouth
Like the great Tibetan saint Milarepa, we can learn to face our fears with clarity and kindness.
Buddhist Training for Modern Life
An interview with the founder of the Juniper School, Segyu Rinpoche
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Excerpt
From: Aging as a Spiritual Practice
Once, when I was about 12, my father came into my room holding a book. He was in his forties at the time. “I want to show you something,” he said. The book was an autobiography…
Aging as a Spiritual Practice
An interview with Lewis Richmond
MeditationMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
Moral Health
Is morality built into the fabric of the natural world?
MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
A Minty Fresh Mind
Five sure-fire tips to get yourself on the cushion every day
How Buddhist Is Modern Buddhism?
The Making of Buddhist Modernism David L. McMahan New York: Oxford University Press 2008, 320 pp., $29.95 paper Buddhism was the first major missionary religion, and by all accounts it seems to have spread peacefully. The…
Hero, Villain, Yeti
Tibet in Comics at the Rubin Museum of Art, through June 11, 2012
Somebody Special
HBO gets Enlightened
Broken Dreams
When the Japanese came to America
Books in Brief Spring 2012
Covering the latest in Buddhist publishing
37 Practices of the Bodhisattva, Verse 1
Right now, you have a good boat, fully equipped and available—hard to find. To free others and you from the sea of samsara, Day and night, fully alert and present, Study, reflect, and meditate—this is…
