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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Losing My Religion
Coming to terms with the complex tapestry of real spiritual life

The World is Places
An interview with Jeff Wilson about regionalism and pluralism in American Buddhism

Buddhist Nationalism in Burma
Institutionalized racism against the Rohingya Muslims led Burma to genocide

The Art of Being Wrong
Why being wrong can be the best thing that ever happened to us

The Matter of Truth
The heavy cost of literalism

The Fate of Mes Aynak
An ancient Buddhist city is caught in a drawn-out battle between commerce and culture in Afghanistan

A Special Transmission
Teachings from the heart of the Chan Buddhist tradition
Departments
Featured Contributors Spring 2013
Contributors include Brent Huffman, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and Michal Przedlacki.
Letters to the Editor Spring 2013
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle's readers
The Buddha Stain
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen

The Lens of Your Heart
From the moment we wake up in the morning, we take many pictures with the lens in our hearts. Our sensory organs, not only our eyes, take all sorts of pictures of the world we live…

TeachingsMagazine | Brief Teachings
Tea and Rice
13th-century zen master Dogen on the enlightenment of ordinary activity.

MeditationMagazine | Brief Teachings
Unmasking the Self
Select wisdom from sources old and new

The Three Times
It is essential to see that we live our lives most of the time in the three times; that’s to say, the past, the present, and the future. We spend our time playing past, present, and…
CultureMagazine | Web Exclusive
Birds, Beasts, Blossoms, and Bugs
5 poems and the Japanese scroll paintings that inspired them

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | This Buddhist Life
An Interview with Dorothy Iannone
Q&A with a Buddhist artist

TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Power of Forgiveness
Our ability to forgive allows us to meet suffering—our suffering as well as the suffering of others—with a kind heart.

Talking with the Other Side
An interview with Krista Tippett

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Living in the Dharma
Get Real
An interview with Shin Reverend Patti Nakai

Finding True Refuge
A mindfulness tool that offers support for working with difficult emotions
A Dreamlike Path
A review of Victress Hitchcock's film on modern Tibetan Buddhism in the West

So the Darkness Shall Be the Light
Contemplative care comes of age at a symposium in Garrison, New York
What I’m Reading
In pursuit of Kerouac's freedom

Books in Brief Spring 2013
Tricycle takes a quick look at the latest in Buddhist publications.

CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Swallows and Waves
Parting words from Paula Bohince
CultureMagazine | Web Exclusive
Returning Home
A dharma talk from Chan Master Guo Jun

Columns

Why Compassion?
Cutting through beliefs

Golden Ghee
A recipe from the essence of the sun

Vegetable Nirvana
A Noble Root

Lost in the Woods
Encounters near the border

Mindfulness and Difficult Emotions
It's never too late to apply the skills of awareness.

Balancing Emotions
Buddhist teachings from the Juniper School

Turning the Corner
The time has come for us to evolve—or perish

The Enlightenment Pill
It's better to learn to wake up by yourself