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Katy Butler tells us how the methods of “Nonviolent Communication” can support our practice of Right Speech.
Sometime in the early eighties, I spent a few weeks in Hawaii, living in a cabin near the crater of the volcano called Kiluaea. Trees, flowers, and birds were all about. The daylight had a kind of spiritual purity. Nights had a softness that was not pure, but sensuously heartbreaking. Best of all, where I […]
Robert Coe chats with countercultural performance artist Meredith Monk about compassion, terror, and “the voices within.”
Rick Bass discovers the redemptive power of a frozen landscape.
Trucker Paul Conrad shows how driving can provide opportunities for mindfulness.
Noelle Oxenhandler offers huge praise for the small word “but.”
Theravadan monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu traces the roots of Western Buddhism to nineteenth-century Romanticism.
A Buddhist audio archive proves that a little dana—and a lot of faith—can go a long way
The Future of Peace:On the Front Lines with the World’s Great PeacemakersScott A. HuntHarperSanFrancisco, 2002384 pp.; $24.95 (cloth) UC Berkeley Buddhism professor Scott A. Hunt has assembled a collection of profiles of men and women he believes are advancing the cause of world peace. He entitles it The Future of Peace. The author doesn’t supply […]
An interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is a meditation teacher, writer, and scientist. He recently retired from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was founding executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society; founder and former director of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic; and a professor of medicine. An early student […]
Q & A on meditation
Marshall Glickman traces his journey to Zen from his first half-lotus to his encounters with the kyosaku stick to his ultimate discovery of the “cosmic dance.”
A nontraditional Buddhist sangha is building a vision of a more just world, one pagoda at a time.
EqualsAdam PhillipsNew York: Basic Books, 2002272 pp.; $25.00 (cloth) Perhaps you have experienced the profound shock—or the mild amusement—that comes from finding yourself in a therapist’s office, eager to start working on your past, and with a bit of luck, your future, only to discover that the other person in the room is deeply attached […]
Stephen J. Fortunato, Jr., is an associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. He writes here on how he brings his Buddhist practice to his responsibilities as a trial judge.
Diagnosed HIV-positive in 1989, Vipassana teacher Gavin Harrison offers some advice on how to confront physical pain.
Vipassana and Zen teacher Gil Fronsdal talks to Tricycle about teaching and practicing in two traditions. Also includes Intolerance to Suffering: A dharma talk by Gil Fronsdal
Pain Without Suffering
Pariyatti Book Service has been spreading the Theravadan teachings since its inception in a home garage eight years ago.
The bodhisattva ideal begins with the smallest acts.
We may think meditation will improve us, but it’s really about accepting ourselves as we are right now.
For the last few days I have been lost in the thicket of the Indian summer garden, gathering the ripe seed of Galactic lettuce, Russian sunflowers, and multi-hued quinoa that hails from the Andean highlands. My hands ache from cracking open brittle pods and threshing autumn seed treasures to plant in next year’s garden and […]
An obituary by Sean Murphy and a remembrance by Andrew Schelling
A Body of PraiseIn the more than ten years I have subscribed to Tricycle, I can’t remember a more engaging issue than the last (Fall 2002). I have often wondered why Tricycle has never addressed in depth the importance of a healthy physical body in nurturing and supporting a meditative practice. Your special section, “The […]
When pain becomes just one object among many in our awareness, it loses its power.
Rooted in ancient Taoist and Ch’an Buddhist thought, China’s “rivers-and-mountains” poetry represents one of the earliest encounters between wilderness and literature.
Peter Alsop speaks with Allan Hunt Badiner
How do we reconcile our roles as consumers and Buddhist practitioners?
Is what we are yearning for already inside of us?
Samdhong Rinpoche, the first democratically elected chairman of the Tibetan Cabinet-in-Exile, discusses the challenges of building a Buddhist democracy.
Living with the mistaken notion that we should be free of pain, we make matters worse for ourselves.
A parent and practitioner explores the difference between free time and freedom.
“The very belief that violence is unavoidable is a root cause of violence,” Samdong Rinpoche, the newly elected leader of Tibet’s Government-in-Exile, commented in a recent conversation with Tricycle. Far from advocating violence as a means of freeing Tibet of Chinese domination, the head of the Tibetan Cabinet-in-Exile—the Kalon Tripa, as he is known—argues that […]
As autumn turns to winter, we experience changes in the weather as well as within ourselves. Three haiku capture the transmigrations of the season.
P’u-hua Departs to the Sky
The Art of Just Sitting:Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of ShikantazaJohn Daido Loori, ed.Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2002256 pp.; $16.95 (cloth) “Just sit” is one of the most commonly heard—and least understood—phrases associated with Zen Buddhism. And yet “just sitting,” or shikantaza—along with koan practice—is one of the two primary methods of Zen meditation. Zen […]
Ezra Bayda, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Darlene Cohen, and Gavin Harrison explain how to use Buddhist practice to manage physical pain.
A Thai prison reforms prisoners on a vegetarian diet, chanting, and the teachings of S. N. Goenka.
A gathering of African-American buddhists.