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Uprooting the Seeds of Anger
Anger has something to teach us. Can we listen?
Social Awakening
Realizing the basic goodness of society
Aren’t We Right to Be Angry?
How to respond to social injustice: an interview with Buddhist scholar John Makransky
Reel Rinpoche
On set with director Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
DNA Sutra
The genetic karma of our inherited selves
Fire and Water
Photographs by Henny Garfunkel of the Shinnyo-en Fire and Water ceremony in Kenya
10 Tips for Living More Mindfully
Former monk, Andy Puddicombe, lends tools to support your meditation practice.
Allegiance to Life
Staying steady through the mess we’re in
The Truth About Truth
The dangers of literalism
Departments
Featured Contributors Summer 2012
Jules Shuzen Harris, Sensei, a Soto priest and dharma successor to Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, writes candidly about confronting his own anger and helping others handle theirs in “Uprooting the Seeds of Anger.” He describes his…
Letters to the Editor Summer 2012
A Binding up “Pursuing an American Buddhism,” Linda Heuman’s interview with Buddhist scholar Charles Prebish (Spring 2012), struck a chord with me. Buddhism has always adapted to, as well as transformed, any culture to which it…
Practicing with Anger
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
From the Canon: Anger
An angry person is ugly and sleeps poorly. Gaining a profit, he turns it into a loss, having done damage with word and deed. A person overwhelmed with anger destroys his wealth. Maddened with anger,…
Feathers are Harmless
As we go through life, we accumulate layers of ideas about who we are and what we’re capable of achieving. As these layers accumulate, we tend to become increasingly rigid in our identification with certain views…
Participate Fully
When we just function, just act, just work, with no idea of a “me” that is functioning or acting or working, the dharma is fully expressed, for then there is no separation. Although things are accomplished…
Mindful Work
Life is easy for the shameless, cunning, Corrupt, brazen, nasty, and betraying. But for one who’s honest and insightful, Trying to pursue purity, it’s hard. —Dhammapada 244–245 Why do so few people follow the path of…
Performing with the Buddha
Last May, former Marine Daniel Goolsby, 61, lost his job and fell into a deep depression. His savings gone, he was three months behind on his rent—and fed up with psychiatrists who wanted to “fix” his…
CultureMagazine | This Buddhist Life
An interview with Mike Giant
Tattoo and graffiti artist Mike Giant on how Buddhism and mindfulness practice has seeped into the way he creates his art. And enjoy his Buddhist-influenced work below.
All-giving Coconut
Recipes From the Land of Sanghamitta
Bodhi Tree, Bodhi Mind
A Zen Gardener’s Pilgrimage to India
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Animal Realm
The Croak of Dawn
Searching for Toads in Namibia
TeachingsMagazine | Online Retreats
The Four Protective Meditations
Offering Protection from Unwholesome Dispositions
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Sexual Misconduct
The third Zen precept
Upsurge
How Paul Hawken Anticipated Occupy Wall Street and the Rise of Leaderless Movements
Breaking Through
How to recognize and overcome three universal obstacles to practice
MeditationMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
Finding the Center
Imagine you walk into a small empty room that is totally dark and are asked to locate its center point. How might you proceed? Unable to use the sense of sight, you might begin by going…
MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
How to Not Waste Time
Turns out you can’t waste time if you’re aware of it.
Visions of an Empowered Future
The dusty little town of Bodhgaya has changed a bit since the first time I came as a pilgrim in 1999. At that time, Bihar was known as the most corrupt and impoverished state in India.…
Religion in Evolution
Robert N. Bellah Religion in Human Evolution Harvard University Press 2011, 784 pp., $39.95 cloth In an interview with Tricycle almost a decade ago, the sociologist of religion Robert N. Bellah addressed a central problem—perhaps thecentral…
Reimagining a 30-year Friendship
The Zen of Steve Jobs
Books in Brief Summer 2012
Covering the latest in Buddhist publishing
CultureMagazine | Web Exclusive
Fire + Water
An Interview with Shinso Ito
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Gary Snyder and “the Most Dangerous Man in America”
Most people know that in 1971 Daniel Ellsberg, an American military analyst who Henry Kissinger dubbed “the most dangerous man in America,” leaked the Pentagon Papers, an act that became one of the most decisive catalysts…
