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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Dismay of Motherhood
We are of the nature to get sick, grow old, and die. So are our children.
Looking into the Eyes of a Master
A relational psychotherapist explores how we can see our teachers as people, both gifted and flawed.
Facing the Wave
A journey through the devastation of Japan’s tsunami
Meditation en Masse
How colonialism sparked the global Vipassana movement
Dharma on the Playa
Buddhism at Burning Man
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Beautiful Storm
Finding the hidden remedies in our troubled selves
The Science Delusion
An interview with cultural critic Curtis White
The Dream Team
Contributing editor Pamela Gayle White speaks with six dedicated practitioners before they enter three-year retreat.
Departments
Featured Contributors Spring 2014
Contributors include Dr. Pilar Jennings, Winifred Bird, and Camille Seaman.
The Three Friends of Winter
A tribute to the original Green Gulch farmer
Letters to the Editor Spring 2014
A Slice of Humble Pie Thank you for Amie Barrodale’s article “La Pala” (Winter 2013). It reminded me of a passage from a book by Iris Murdoch, A Word Child: “Nothing humbles human pride more than…
8,000 Miles to India
An encounter with S. N. Goenka
Hard Science, Hard Questions
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
Magazine | Column, Online Retreats
Parting from the Four Attachments
Clarifying our motivations for practice
First Thought, Worst Thought
Select wisdom from sources old and new
Hearing Silence
Select wisdom from sources old and new
The Great Compassion
My eyes being hindered by blind passions, I cannot perceive the light that grasps me; Yet the great compassion, without tiring, Illumines me always. ♦ Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha, The Collected Works of Shinran, Vol. 1.
The Eight Winds
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure. They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline.…
Liberation
Select wisdom from sources old and new.
Letting Go of Our Baggage
The process of cultivating mind can be compared to climbing up a mountain. On the way to the highest peak, imagine we come across all different kinds of luggage. Should we also carry these up the…
IdeasMagazine | This Buddhist Life
An Interview with Chris McKenna
Q&A with a Mindful Educator
CultureMagazine | Spotlight On
Shomyo no Kai
Voices of a Thousand Years
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Simple Joy
Becoming intimate with all of life's circumstances
MeditationMagazine | Interview
The Counselor
Japanese priest Ittetsu Nemoto has made suicide prevention his life’s work.
Forget Happiness
Commentary on two verses from Tokme Zongpo’s Thirty-seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
Romance Rehab
Retreat is not the escape a young meditator expects
Mind Matters
Positive thinking in America
Books in Brief Spring 2014
Covering the latest in Buddhist publishing
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
The Squirrel Sutra
Parting words from Maitreyabandhu
Columns
The Sweet Life
The fountain of youth is a chocolate one.
The Three Friends of Winter
A tribute to the original Green Gulch farmer
8,000 Miles to India
An encounter with S. N. Goenka
Magazine | Column, Online Retreats
Parting from the Four Attachments
Clarifying our motivations for practice
Pleasure and Pain
A closer look at two Pali words
“There is no self.”
“Nope, never said that, either.”—The Buddha
The Many Meanings of Dharma
Deciphering Buddhism’s most common word