Bodhisattva Vow

Black Swan Buddhism

The winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge updates the bodhisattva ideal for an age of ecological concerns.

Winter 2021

Trike Daily Society & Environment

The Practicality of the Impossible

Zen priest Norman Fischer explains how the absurdity of the bodhisattva ideal demonstrates a much needed way of reimagining the world.

By Matthew Abrahams

May 08, 2019

Magazine Meditation & Practice

In Brief

Select wisdom from sources old and new

By The Editors

Spring 2019

With Eyes in All Directions

Prominent writer and social critic Rebecca Solnit takes on the whole American mess in Call Them by Their True Names.

By Noelle Oxenhandler

Winter 2018

Bodhicitta’s Ripple Effect

Arousing the thought of enlightenment is not just to make a determination to enlighten all beings; it is the determination to motivate all beings to motivate all beings, on and on.

By Francis Dojun Cook

Summer 2018

Nurturing the Intelligent Heart

From aspiration to insight, the practice of bodhicitta leads to a natural embodiment of wisdom and compassion.

By Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

Summer 2018

Trike DailyHistory & Philosophy

The Discomfort of Compassion

Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism means coming face-to-face with the suffering of all sentient beings. It’s not fun.

By Constance Kassor

Apr 24, 2018

Trike DailyMeditation & Practice

Why Buddhists Should Run for Public Office

We need more bodhisattvas in politics, writes a Buddhist practitioner who serves in New Hampshire’s House of Representatives.

By Suzanne Harvey

Oct 17, 2017

Village Zendo Offers First Precept Ceremony at Sing Sing Correctional Facility

A long-term inmate has taken the Buddhist set of ethical guidelines against the often violent setting of prison life

By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar

Feb 09, 2017

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Summer 2022

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You Can’t Be Yourself By Yourself: Overcoming Structural Selfishness

In this Dharma Talk, Malcolm Martin proposes the term "structural selfishness" to discuss the ways that a fixed idea of self hinders our practice, while offering insight on how to embrace the complexity of interdependence.

Malcolm Martin

Jun 2022

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