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The Friendship of Philip Whalen and Gary Snyder
By David SchneiderHungry ghost, a morphology all by itself between our realms Hungry ghost: that dwells in consciousness, torments our desire Sexy ghost, a performer, a demon, a gadfly To never have enough be enough get enough Dancing on coals In a state of mind, bewitched, unsettled over what he thinks or she thinks, what they think […]
By Anne Waldman
Energy cultivation for a deepened practice
By Teja Bell
An illustrated timeline of Lumbini, Nepal
By Sam Mowe
The Ninth Zen Precept: Not Being Angry
By Roshi Nancy Mujo BakerAn interview with Atula Shah
By Tricycle
No one’s—and everyone’s, it turns out.
Long-lost scrolls shed some surprising light.
Secrets beneath the shimmering
By Rick BassThe Catholic theologian Hans Küng observed that “a global market economy requires a global ethic.” Yet at the very moment when the need for just such an ethic is more urgent than ever, our national and global systems of governance seem effectively paralyzed in moving toward it. To reimagine the future, and to describe […]
By Bruce Rich
An interview with Tom Shadyac
By Tricycle
All the “spills” we create—not just with our hands but in the ocean of personal relationships as well—begin in our own mind. Distracted by the many things we have to do in a brief time, our attention wanders away from taking care of the activity in front of it, becoming concerned instead for finishing the […]
By Les Kaye
An interview with Reverend Patricia Kanaya Usuki
By Jeff Wilson
Why viewpoints are best held gently
By Andrew OlendzkiA Bhutanese Recipe for rice wine
By Noa Jones
Allowing for space in our meditation practice helps us let go of a competitive, goal-oriented mindset and embrace the joy and fluidity of our lives.
By Tsoknyi Rinpoche
In 1982, Peter Matthiessen traveled to Japan with his teacher, Bernie Glassman, to pay respects to the masters in their Zen lineage. Matthiessen, a two-time winner of the National Book Award, chronicled their pilgrimage inNine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969–1982. A new book, Are We There Yet? A Zen Journey Through Space and Time (Counterpoint, […]
By Sam MoweVideo
By Tricycle
Arrive in the here and the now.
By Thich Nhat Hanh, Artwork by Carlos EstevezView the Qigong for Meditators video Part 1 and Part 2 or read Teja Bell’s Qigong for Meditators feature from our Summer 2011 issue.
By Teja BellDear Abbey, When I turn on the TV, it feels unbearable to watch. I want to know what’s happening in the world, but media sources seem toxic to me. I’m sure I’m not alone in my emotional regard for the many things happening around us—political or social— that impact us and those we love. How […]
By Sylvia BoorsteinOn a bright and windy April afternoon three Tricycle staff members met photographer Lisa Elmaleh on 106th Street and Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. There, we conducted a 4 hour photo shoot of a 15-foot bronze statue of Shinran Shonin (the 12th-13th century Japanese Buddhist monk who founded Jodo Shinshu (Shin) […]
By Rachel HilesTricycle’s features editor, Andrew Cooper, recently wrote me the following: Although E. M. Forster could hardly have intended that the epigraph to his novel Howards End—‘Only connect’—serve as a two-word distillation of the Buddha’s teachings, it certainly is a good, and timely, one. To connect across the differences that divide us; to connect by building […]
By James ShaheenAmerican Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation—How Indian Spirituality Changed the West Philip GoldbergHarmony Books, 2010416 pp.; $26.00 cloth It’s often said that Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in America. There are dharma centers in every major American city, and more are springing up every year. But long before Buddhism […]
By Dana SawyerProfession: Co-Abbot, Embracing Simplicity Hermitage; Founder of My Place Age: 60Location: Hendersonville, North CarolinaWhere did you grow up? I grew up in Washington, D.C., and the surrounding Maryland area. What was your religious upbringing? I was raised as a Baptist Christian. How did you get from the Baptist church to Buddhism? I felt the love […]
By Rachel HilesLinda Heuman (“Whose Buddhism is Truest?”) is a freelance journalist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Heuman has practiced Tibetan Buddhism (in the Gelug, Kagyu, and Nyingma traditions) for two decades under the guidance of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Ven. Christine Skarda. Heuman’s dharma story began in India and Nepal. In the early 1990s, she practiced […]
By TricycleFrom the canon: Samyutta Nikaya 44.10
By Tricycle
An object for compassion I enjoyed Clark Strand’s article “13 Ways of Looking at a Madman” (Spring 2011). Every single situation presents us with an opportunity. If we were never sick, how could we appreciate our health, or if our body never died, how would we appreciate our limited time here? Perhaps it was his giving […]
By Tricycle
Putting faith in a planet greater than ourselves
By Clark Strand
The Xiantangshan cave temples in northern China, constructed during the short-lived Northern Qi dynasty (550–577 C.E.), are still used as places of worship. But the artworks they once contained—carved friezes depicting Buddhist deities and their mandalas, limestone statues of relaxed bodhisattvas and intent disciples, and incised decorative panels lavishly patterned with flowering trees and flaming […]
By Anne DoranTo watch Qigong for Meditators: Video 3, click here.
By Teja Bell
Finding freedom through thoughts and words
By Norman Fischer, Artwork by A. J. Bocchino
Before arriving in New York City almost 56 years ago, the 15-foot bronze statue pictured on the cover stood in a park in Hiroshima, Japan, just over a mile from ground zero of the atomic bomb blast of August 6, 1945. Unlike most of the buildings in the city, the bronze figure of Shinran Shonin […]
By Rachel HilesTo watch Qigong for meditators: Video 2, click here.
By Teja Bell
When I first started sitting, I had read the instruction “Hold your mind like a great iron wall against all incoming thoughts and feelings.” So that’s the way I sat for quite a few years, just holding everything out. After doing that practice for a long time, which was very difficult, I realized that I […]
By Gerry Shishin Wick
Shinjo Ito, the founder of Shinnyo-en Buddhism, a Japanese Vajrayana school, once wrote, “Faith is not about preaching or philosophy. It is action to which you dedicate your whole being.” Shinnyo-en Buddhists strive to consider the hardships of others as their own and then meditate on how to respond. Reacting to the recent events in […]
[William, Brewer] And [Alex Caring, Lobel] And [ Monty, McKeever] Monty McKeeverOn a recent Saturday evening, 80 people with pajamas peeking from beneath their overcoats filed down West 17th Street in New York City and slipped through the doors of the Rubin Museum of Art. In the lobby, tea lights flickered and soothing music played. In the galleries above, great works of Himalayan art awaited the […]
By Caitlin Van DusenThe “three sister” trio of corn, beans, and squash
By Wendy JohnsonAn interview with Venerable Metteya
By Tricycle
Remembering Gene Smith
By Noa Jones