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We are of the nature to get sick, grow old, and die. So are our children.
By Mary Talbot
A relational psychotherapist explores how we can see our teachers as people, both gifted and flawed.
by Pilar Jennings | artwork by Tenzing Rigdol
A journey through the devastation of Japan’s tsunami
by Gretel Ehrlich | photographs by James Whitlow Delano
How colonialism sparked the global Vipassana movement
By Erik Braun
Buddhism at Burning Man
by Allan Badiner | photographs by Scott London
Finding the hidden remedies in our troubled selves
By Henry Shukman, Photography by Camille Seaman
An interview with cultural critic Curtis White
Interview with Curtis White by Linda Heuman
Contributing editor Pamela Gayle White speaks with six dedicated practitioners before they enter three-year retreat.
by Pamela Gayle White | artwork by Adrian Eisenhower
Contributors include Dr. Pilar Jennings, Winifred Bird, and Camille Seaman.
By The Editors
A tribute to the original Green Gulch farmer
By Wendy Johnson
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 inability to understand a language. It’s a perfect image of spiritual limitation. The cleverest man looks a fool if […]
By The Editors
An encounter with S. N. Goenka
By Bill HigginsA letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
By James Shaheen
Clarifying our motivations for practice
By Lama Jampa Thaye
A student once asked me whether wisdom was the same as intuition. I thought for a minute and said, “No. I was absolutely certain that my first husband was my soul mate, my destiny. Boy, was I wrong!” Most of us can think of an instance in which we were completely sure of something and […]
By Lynn Kelly
Silence is as rare as it is essential. When was the last time you really heard silence? How long has it been since you saw a person sitting alone in silence? How often do you leave earphones and cell phones at home? Silence is disappearing as fast as the darkness dispersed by city lights. This […]
By Mark C. TaylorMy 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.
By Shinran
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. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds. But if you nurse an […]
By The Editors
Liberation does not come when you conquer your ego, silence it, or through repression and denial get it to behave “properly.” Liberation comes when we release our attachment to the habitual conditioned nature and structure of our temporary egos. We can nod and smile when our ego, like a slightly demented relative who means well, […]
By Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi
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 mountain? It is hard enough to get to the top carrying just our body. Should we also shoulder all […]
By Daehaeng Kun Sunim
Q&A with a Mindful Educator
By Emma Varvaloucas
Voices of a Thousand Years
By The Editors
Becoming intimate with all of life’s circumstances
By Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara
Japanese priest Ittetsu Nemoto has made suicide prevention his life’s work.
By Winifred Bird
Commentary on two verses from Tokme Zongpo’s Thirty-seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
by Ken McLeod | artwork by Minako Iwamura
Retreat is not the escape a young meditator expects
By Dan Zigmond
Positive thinking in America
By Hawa AllanIn Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint (W. W. Norton, April 2014, $24.95, 224 pp., cloth), by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. and Peggy McCracken, traces the Buddha’s story as it came to be rewritten by Muslim, Jewish, and Christian authors. As the tale was translated from Sanskrit (or […]
By Alex Caring-Lobel
Parting words from Maitreyabandhu
By Maitreyabandhu
The fountain of youth is a chocolate one.
By Noa Jones
A tribute to the original Green Gulch farmer
By Wendy Johnson
An encounter with S. N. Goenka
By Bill Higgins
Clarifying our motivations for practice
By Lama Jampa Thaye
A closer look at two Pali words
By Andrew Olendzki
“Nope, never said that, either.”—The Buddha
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Deciphering Buddhism’s most common word
By Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.