Compassion (Karuna)

Ruth King from BuddhaFest’s 9/11 Weekend of Peace, Compassion, and Forgiveness

At the recent BuddhaFest event commemorating 9/11, Ruth King gave an inspiring talk on moving past the negative space we inhabited around 9/11. She movingly describes how our conditioning led to tragic consequences, including wars and…

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Sep 28, 2011

Compassionate Cities, Compassionate Lives

This month we journeyed with scholar of religion Karen Armstrong from the place of fear and anger that surrounded 9/11 to a place of hope with the Compassionate Action Network’s campaign for Compassionate Cities. The Tricycle…

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Sep 28, 2011

How Do You Cultivate Compassion in Your Community?

This month, Tricycle is partnering with the Compassionate Action Network to support Karen Armstrong’s Charter for Compassion and Compassionate Cities Project. Join us today at any member level and you’ll have the opportunity to sign the…

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Sep 19, 2011

Karen Armstrong on the Birth of Compassion

Besides being the author of the book Buddha from the Penguin Lives series, scholar of religions Karen Armstrong has another project that is close to the hearts of Buddhists: the Charter for Compassion. Compassion, Armstrong argues,…

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Sep 15, 2011

Sylvia Boorstein: BuddhaFest’s Weekend of Peace, Compassion, & Forgiveness

This past weekend, to mark ten years since 9/11, the organizers of the BuddhaFest film festival in Washington, DC (with whom Tricycle partnered not long ago) put together an event featuring Sylvia Boorstein, Tara Brach, Lama…

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Sep 14, 2011

Tricycle Retreats: Compassionate Engagement with Others

Acharya Gaylon Ferguson begins the second week of his Tricycle Retreat, Natural Bravery, with bowing as an act of bravery. Why is bowing an act of bravery? As Gaylon says, “Bowing expresses a basic openness and…

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Sep 12, 2011

Compassion is More Responsive Than Anger

The June Tricycle Book Club discussion of The Heart of the Revolution by Noah Levine is off to quite a start! The conversation has touched on many topics, ranging from inter-religious issues to getting mad in…

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Jun 08, 2011

Karen Armstrong, the TED Prize and the Charter for Compassion

This picture was taken from the 30th floor of the UN Millennium Hotel in New York City, where a couple Tricyclers were fortunate enough to get together with Karen Armstrong, a historian of religion and recent…

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Nov 22, 2010

Green Koans Case 3: The Great Compassionate One’s True Eye

Case #3: The Great Compassionate One’s True Eye BACKGROUND: Mayu and Lin-chi (Rinzai) were 9th century Ch’an Buddhist monks. The Great Compassionate One is the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, also known as Kannon or Kuan-yin. He/she is often…

By Clark Strand

Jul 15, 2010