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We are of the nature to get sick, grow old, and die. So are our children.
A relational psychotherapist explores how we can see our teachers as people, both gifted and flawed.
A journey through the devastation of Japan’s tsunami
How colonialism sparked the global Vipassana movement
Buddhism at Burning Man
Finding the hidden remedies in our troubled selves
An interview with cultural critic Curtis White
Contributing editor Pamela Gayle White speaks with six dedicated practitioners before they enter three-year retreat.
Contributors include Dr. Pilar Jennings, Winifred Bird, and Camille Seaman.
A tribute to the original Green Gulch farmer
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 […]
An encounter with S. N. Goenka
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
Clarifying our motivations for practice
Select wisdom from sources old and new
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Q&A with a Mindful Educator
Voices of a Thousand Years
Becoming intimate with all of life’s circumstances
Japanese priest Ittetsu Nemoto has made suicide prevention his life’s work.
Commentary on two verses from Tokme Zongpo’s Thirty-seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
Retreat is not the escape a young meditator expects
Positive thinking in America
In 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 […]
Parting words from Maitreyabandhu
The fountain of youth is a chocolate one.
A tribute to the original Green Gulch farmer
An encounter with S. N. Goenka
Clarifying our motivations for practice
A closer look at two Pali words
“Nope, never said that, either.”—The Buddha
Deciphering Buddhism’s most common word