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Dying & Death
A Tricycle Special Section
How Buddhists Can Prepare to Die
A Buddhist friend recently described how her priorities for practice had changed in the course of a life of meditation: “At first, I meditated because I wanted to reach enlightenment. As I got older, I practiced…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Buddhist Death Rites
Death rites in the various Buddhist traditions
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Last Gift
Ajahn Chah recorded the following talk at the request of one of his students, whose mother was on her deathbed. The student had expected no more than a few words for his mother, but instead Ajahn…
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
What to Think About at Death
I want to remind all of you who are presently sick or dying to think about what I have to say and try to change or go on diligently with your practice. The Buddha spoke of…
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Caring for Our Own
Home death and home funerals
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
The Longest Hospice Patient
When I go to visit a hospice client, I look at the wrinkled face and think, “I too am of the nature to grow old.” In them, I am seeing a preview of my own coming…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Molly’s Death
Six of us carried Molly’s body up the narrow, twisting staircase, an embrace so intimate and sweet that the experience remains vivid for me months after her death. Her passing was expected and uneventful, like many…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Remembering Ed Softky
I remember picking up the phone on Thursday and hearing my wife Eva’s voice. I could tell she was crying. “Sweetie,” she said, “Ed was in an accident and was killed.” I felt my knees buckle,…
Features
The Scientific Buddha
Why do we ask that Buddhism be compatible with science?
A Gray Matter
Another look at Buddhism and neuroscience
Departments
Featured Contributors Winter 2012
Featured contributors include Dick Allen and Mary Talbot
Letters to the Editor Winter 2012
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
A Gray Matter
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
Buying Wisdom?
Wisdom 2.0 founder Soren Gordhamer responds to "Buying Wisdom" by Richard Eskow (Fall 2012)
Tortoise Steps
Select wisdom from sources old and new
Gently Bowing
Select wisdom from sources old and new
Let Grace In
Pith teachings for cultivating a life of meaning and love
Discovering Truth
Select wisdom from sources old and new
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | This Buddhist Life
An Interview with Jason Lewis
Q&A with world explorer Jason Lewis
Breakfast in Bumthang
A wholesome, warming, and nutritious recipe for porridge
An Earthly Paradise
The yellow bellflower apple
The Melting Plain
The time of great cold is no more
TeachingsMagazine | Online Retreats
Healing Ecology
What can Buddhism contribute to our understanding of the ecological crisis?
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Free from Fear
When we are not fully present, we are not really living
Diamond-like Resolve
Pamela Gayle White interviews the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Living in the Dharma
If We Watch, Wisdom Comes
An interview with Carol Wilson
May I Be Happy
Practicing with the four traditional lovingkindness slogans
MeditationMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
The Buddha’s Smile
Cultivating equanimity
MeditationMagazine | The Trackless Path
Freedom and Choice
Breaking free from the tyranny of reaction
MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
Goalless Practice
To learn how to be truly content here, you have to practice being truly content here.
Angry Cops and Shallow Cads
Noelle Oxenhandler on The Angry Buddhist by Seth Greenland
Journey Through Samsara
Ron Fricke’s new film, Samsara
Books in Brief Winter 2012
The latest in Buddhist publishing
CultureMagazine | Web Exclusive
A Fractal Solution to the Universe
An interview with "neuro-painter" Greg Dunn
CultureMagazine | Web Exclusive
The Haiku Spirit
An interview with scholar-artist Stephen Addiss
Dying & Death Resource Guide
Resources on end-of-life, death care, and funerals
CultureMagazine | Web Exclusive
Does a Cow Go “Mu”?
An Interview with Buddhist Poet Dick Allen
Deathcare Dossier
Or, how to be unburdensome
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
After a heavy, clinging snow
Parting words by Dick Allen