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Tibet
Fifty years of exile
Bringing Spiritual Confidence in the Workplace
Uncertainty about the economy need not shake our confidence when we rely on the natural wisdom we develop in meditation.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Walking the Walk
Passing on passing judgment
Facing the Heat
Joseph Goldstein on addressing the climate crisis, step by step
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Beyond Blame
Can you forgive your parents? You can, when you realize that your happiness does not depend on external circumstances
The Brahma-viharas: Head & Heart Together
Thai forest monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu teaches us how to use wisdom to cultivate compassion
Ordination as Equals
Can Thai Theravada nuns and Roman Catholic women priests shatter the clerical glass ceiling?
Housecleaning in Kyoto
A poem by Gary Snyder
How Green is Green?
Environmental awareness plays an increasingly important role in consumer culture. But when does environmentalism become simply clever branding?
Departments
TeachingsMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
Burning Alive
Turn down the thermostat and cool the fires of our minds.
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Aim of Attention
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche gives instructions in the liberating practice of awareness.
Summer 2009 Contributors
JAN CHOZEN BAYS, M.D., is a Zen teacher and pediatrician. Her article “Mindful Eating” is adapted from a new book of the same name, which draws on knowledge from both occupations. “For many years,” she tells Tricycle, “I’ve been inventing mindful eating exercises. What finally got me writing was the current epidemic of obesity among […]
Soteriology & Apotheosis
if you could imagine, or visualize the entire Wheel of Time mandala in the drop the size of amustard seed at the tip on one’s nose & see the whites of the eyes of 722deitiesall rooting for the enlightened you the wide-awake you if you could imagine an enemy who would it be? visualize the […]
IdeasMagazine | Sangha Spotlight
On the Cushion, in the Street
For one New York City sangha, meditation is a political practice.
What I’m Reading Summer 2009
“SEVENTY-TWO labors brought us this food, / we should know how it comes to us.” For more than four decades now, in his essays, novels, short stories, and poems, Wendell Berry has been reminding us of the labors of the farmers who literally bring us our food. He has lamented the passing of […]
The Judge Dee Mysteries
Ancient Chinese detective tales retold
Fruitless Labor
Forming bad habits is hard work.
MeditationMagazine | Into Practice
Mindful Eating
Five ways to develop a skillful relationship with food from physician and Zen Priest Jan Chozen Bays.
IdeasMagazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Summer 2009
Visit the Tricycle Community to share your thoughts about the the next “What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You?” topic: Sex. You might just find yourself in the next issue of Tricycle! […]
Greening, Not Green
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
What I’m Reading Summer 2009
THERE’S ALWAYS a stack of books on the bedside table, threatening to topple over and kill me in my sleep. If so, I’ll die happy. Right now I’m immersed in three wonderful new dharma books and four works of fiction—I’ll list them in a minute. First, I have to tell how Daphne Beal’s novel In […]
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Remembering Master Sheng Yen
Revered Chan Master Sheng Yen died on February 3, 2009, in Taipei at the age of 79. He was an inspiration to Buddhists and non-Buddhists around the globe, and his writing regularly appeared in the pages ofTricycle. Master Sheng Yen’s […]
Come Together
Jeff Wilson urges us to foster and enjoy a sense of community.
MeditationMagazine | On Retreat
Meditation Getaways
Tricycle readers name their favorite U.S. retreat centers
Books in Brief
Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest To Find Zen On The Sea Jaimal Yogis Wisdom Publications, 2009 256 pp., $14.95 (paper) RAISED BY meditating parents, Jaimal Yogis began dreaming of buddhahood at a younger age than most Americans. His debut book, a coming-of-age memoir, documents his endearing and often comical pursuit of this dream. […]
Life after Loss
A mother's journey
Eco-Dharma
Buddhism and environmentalism aren't so different from each other, argues ALLAN BADINER. We just need to wake up to that fact.
Buddha in the Googleplex
The search engine’s “Jolly Good Fellow” brings the dharma to Silicon Valley
MeditationMagazine | Interview
The Best and Worst of Us
Tricycle speaks with psychologist Paul Ekman about his work with the Dalai Lama on destructive and constructive emotions.
Bliss Is a By-Product
Adyashanti warns against chasing enlightenment down the wrong path
From Our Contributers
EVEN WOMEN who are determinedly pro-choice seldom experience abortion without some shame or remorse. And miscarriage is a loss many never get over. Buddhist rituals don’t always translate to Western practice, but in Mourning the Unborn Dead: A Buddhist Ritual Comes to America (Oxford University Press, 2009, $35.00 cloth), Tricycle […]
Paying Attention
What happens when we focus
Letters Summer 2009
NOT SO FASTI would have no beef with Genpo Roshi (“Introducing Big Mind,” Winter 2008) if he presented his Big Mind technique merely as a tool for helping to deal with psychological issues encountered during the course of practice, but he doesn’t. He maintains that by practicing the Big Mind method one can radically speed […]
Columns
Don’t Bite the Hook
Pema Chödrön on the trap of shenpa—and how to avoid it
I Like It . . . but Is It Meditation?
An appreciation of everyday mindfulness