A Birthday Reflection
Meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg on the challenges and unexpected gifts of aging
Aging
Beginning with the Buddha's earliest insights, the four noble truths—where the Buddha recognized the inevitability of old age, illness, and death—aging has been a key part of Buddhist wisdom. Explore teachings and personal reflections on aging and related Buddhist topics like impermanence. Go deeper with the Tricycle Online Course Aging as a Spiritual Practice.
Buddha Was Asleep in Our Home
Looking back on her life, an aging practitioner finds solace in nature’s cycles of birth and death.
The Zen Art of Caregiving
Sister Tue Nghiem discusses how the practice of presence helped her care for her mother in the final seven years of her life.
‘Visitation with the Radiologist’
Confronted with his own mortality, a poet turns his attention to old age, illness, and death.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Ascension
Zombies and Zoom meditation in the New Jersey suburbs
Dementia and the Sense of Self
Tricycle’s executive editor discusses his father’s dementia diagnosis and the questions it raises about memory, impermanence, and identity.
Weaving a Mindful Community of Elders
Inspired by Aging with Wisdom, a group of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based seniors reorient their relationship to old age.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Letter from the Editor, The Conversation
Humor and Heartbreak
A letter from Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
What Is the Shape of My Life?
Before you realize it, the present moment eclipses future unknowns—and that’s OK.
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