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The World Without Us
Environmental journalist Alan Weisman’s best seller The World Without Us has refreshed and rekindled ecological debates. Here he speaks with contributing editor Clark Strand about global warming, population control, and what the world might look like…
Igniting a Fire, Extinguishing the Self
As a young man, Breyten Breytenbach left his native South Africa to pursue art in Paris. In addition to critical acclaim, he found the dharma and the underground anti-apartheid movement. His next trip home would lead…
The Mindful Scalpel
Can advancements in neuroscience make us happier and more compassionate? Jeff Greenwald visits neurosurgeon Dr. Katrina Firlik to investigate the relationship between the material mind and its spiritual potential.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Above the Fray
A Huffington Post blogger wonders if he can practice right speech and cultivate equanimity without losing his edge as a political advocate.
Departments
Meditation 101: Less is More
Teaching meditation in prison, Barry Evans found the heart of his practice when he was forced to cut most of it out.
MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
Have a Seat
Practical advice for meditators with chronic back pain
Faces of Enlightenment
Photographer Don Farber discusses portraiture, reincarnation, the Dalai Lama, and thirty years of Buddhism through his lens.
Teaching Mister Ordinary
On the road with Volvo Rinpoche
The Wise Investigator
Sayadaw U Tejaniya explains how taking an interest in life as it is can lead to liberation.
Apocalypse Landscapes
A new kind of urban park emerges from postindustrial wastelands.
Asking to Exhaustion
John Daido Loori explains that all answers are available.
Fruitful Contradictions
The Zen of mathematics
Darwin’s Dharma
Meditating on evolution
Striking a Balance
Since its inception, Tricycle’s mission has been to make Buddhist teachings and practices available without expressing a bias for any particular teacher or community. From the outset, this has presented a challenge. As I wrote in…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Heart-Essence of Buddhist Meditation
Lama Surya Das explores the common roots of various Buddhist meditative practices.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
Heart Touching Heart
On an intense Zen retreat, insight meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein opens up to the vulnerable experience of compassion.
Contributors Winter 2007
RJ ESKOW was drawn into the fractious world of blogging after the 2004 presidential election. He recounts some of his escapades on the political front in “Above the Fray.” “The burnout rate for politically involved people…
In-Body Experience
The simplicity of sensation
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
It Takes Guts
David T. Andersen describes his first encounter with Ram Dass
IdeasMagazine | Off The Cushion
Gifts That Keep Giving
A Buddhist's guide to compassionate gift-giving
MeditationMagazine | On Gardening
The Form of Compassion
An introductory Tantric visualization practice of the deity Chenrezi, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Translated from Tibetan and adapted by Pamela Gayle White.
No Sorrow, No Dust
Untitled, Buddha, Mihintale, Sri Lanka, Rena Bass Forman An exhibition of Rena Bass Forman’s Sri Lanka photographs will be at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York City from Nov. 29 through Jan. 26, 2008. Comprehending…
Monk on a Mission
Saving the Orphans of Northern Thailand
Letters to the Editor Winter 2007
INSIDE MAN As a Roman Catholic priest and a Zen dharma holder, I feel impelled to respond to questions raised in two of the reviews in the Fall 2007 issue. The first is the probing assessment…
Books in Brief
Handful of Leaves, Volume 5 by Thanissaro Bhikkhu The Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, 2007 419 pp.; free (paper) Not many things in life are free, but the Buddha’s teachings are, thanks to Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | My View
The Contenders
A ritual for Marlon Brando
Hard-boiled Buddha
Murder in a magic-ravaged land
Monks Rising
Defiant monks lead a historic wave of protests in Burma.
Columns
Whirling Petals, Windblown Leaves
“It was unthinkable that a poem should get no reply.” This sentence from The Tale of Genji, Japan’s profoundly melancholy Buddhist novel written around the year 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, marks the formalization of a particular…