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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Gossip Boy
“The only thing worse than being talked about,” said Oscar Wilde, “is not being talked about.” I love gossip. I love to hear it, I love to spread it, and most of all I love to…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Buddhist Guide to Gossip
When we were teenagers, my brother had a funny little routine about gossip. He would begin with “I never say anything about anyone that isn’t good,” and then, leaning over as if to whisper in your…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Gossip
The Sixth Precept: Stop bad mouthing people, you idiot!
Features
Cyborg Buddha
Is what we are born with enough or could we use a little help? A conversation with Transhumanist James Hughes
It Takes a Saint
What will it take to establish a truly Western dharma?
The Fog of World War II
Setting the Record Straight on D.T. Suzuki
An Investigation of the Mind
Published here for the first time, this commentary by one of the great Tibetan masters of the 20th century, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, will appear in The Collected Works of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Shambhala, 2010).
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Where the Buddha Woke Up
Chaos and Enlightenment in Bodhgaya
Departments
The Authentic Life
A conversation with Lewis Richmond
Dear Abbey Dharma
Dear Abbey Dharma, In my lifetime of professional work in Canadian social service, I have gone from being left-leaning to Social Conservative. I don’t find a place for myself in any Western Buddhist sangha where being…
CultureMagazine | Dedication of Merit
Shall We Offer Flowers?
Bitter buffaloberrydevil’s club, tangled dogtoothnarrowleaf arrowheadWhat are the lineages of life?ground water, radiant heat—listen, they form the underlying beatof the watershed,gifts with no motive the way of the ancientsskyrocket chicory bluestemfew-flowered shooting starIndian pipeall the paradise…
CultureMagazine | Brief Teachings
In the Forest of Faded Wisdom
104 Poems by Gendun Chopel
Food for the Gods
The easy-to-make Tibetan dish dresti is traditionally served for ceremonial occasions but also makes for good midweek comfort food.
Support your practice
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
Sailing Home
Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls
The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom
The Essential Teachings
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Gardening
Alone & Full
Midnight in the garden
Books in Brief Summer 2010
In God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World—and Why Their Differences Matter(HarperOne, 2010, $26.99 hardcover, 400 pp.), Stephen Prothero argues against the assertion that all religions are…
Letters Summer 2010
Recapturing the Dark “Turn Out The Lights” by Clark Strand (Spring 2010) was an excellent article! Now we have to figure out how to recapture natural silence. The din of the marketplace in the days of…
TeachingsMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
A Modest Awakening
Ordinary nirvana
What I’m Reading Summer 2010
Buddha’s Orphans Samrat Upadhyay Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 2010448 pp., $26.00 cloth At first blush, Buddhism might seem hostile to fiction. Our practice asks us to reject all illusions, allowing ourselves to see things only as…
MeditationMagazine | Brief Teachings
Unlimiting Mind
The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
Evaluate Your Meditation
Gil Fronsdal tells us how to get the most out of it.
An Interview with John Giorno
Profession: Poet Age : 73 Location: NYC What are you working on right now? At the moment I am just finishing a piece about Garcia Lorca. How do you view poetry? All art, and poetry being…
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
Undivided Mind
Becoming Whole
Contributors Summer 2010
Noa Jones writes fiction and creative nonfiction. She is the writer and editor of Art in Action: Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future. Her first book was Travellers & Magicians, about the making of Dzongsar…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Animal Realm
Totem Animals
The fantastic creatures of reality
MeditationMagazine | Brief Teachings
Heartfelt Advice
When we are deeply involved in the practice of the Buddha dharma, the sages advise that we practice a common sense of balance by learning to structure our mundane activities and dharma practice in ways that…
On Becoming the Dharma
The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
Captive Meditation
The Prison & The American Imagination Caleb Smith Yale University Press, 2009 272 pp. $40.00 cloth Solitude can be a vehicle for liberation, or it can tear a person apart. To say nothing of sagely hermits—the…
TeachingsMagazine | Online Retreats
The Way of Freedom
Mahamudra, or “great seal,” is a term used in Vajrayana Buddhism to refer to the mark, or nature, of all experience: emptiness. Mahamudra practice is most commonly associated with the Kagyü tradition of Tibet. What follows…
Vision and Routine
Why you need both to strike a balance
Charities Summer 2010
In May 2006, Buddha Jyoti Himalayan Youth Club Nepal (BJHYC) started its latest social service project, Maitri Griha, or “House of Friendship,” a home for mentally disabled children in Kathmandu, Nepal. Perceiving a lack of care…
TeachingsMagazine | Brief Teachings
From the Canon: Thirst
The craving of one given to heedless living grows like a creeper. Like the monkey seeking fruits in the forest, he leaps from life to life (tasting the fruit of his kamma). Whoever is overcome by…
Water Work
Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico Stanley Crawford University of New Mexico Press, 1993 243 pp., $18.95 paper Far Tortuga Peter Matthiessen Vintage Books, 1988 416 pp., $16.95 paper In a time of…