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Seeing in the Dark

Zen priest Kurt Spellmeyer discusses cigarettes, samadhi, and “dwelling in emptiness.”

By Kurt Spellmeyer

Mar 18, 2022

Meditating With Emptiness

By Kurt Spellmeyer

Mar 2022

Seeing the Emptiness of Self

When we shift our attention from thoughts to feelings and let identity arise into consciousness, the sense of self diminishes

By Laura Bridgman

Feb 03, 2022

When You Greet Me I Bow: Relationship, Emptiness, Activism

Poet, translator, and Zen Buddhist priest Norman Fischer shares lessons from his decades of practice: from relationships, to emptiness, to activism, to cultural encounters between East and West.

By Norman Fischer

Oct 2021

Trike DailyPersonal Reflections

Letting Go to Find Yourself

How one writer’s confrontation with emptiness helped to shed and define their identity.

By Dr. g

Jul 20, 2021

In Brief

Select wisdom from sources old and new

By The Editors

Summer 2020

The Three Principles of Awakening

In Tibetan Buddhism, view, meditation, and action frame the path to enlightenment. In this series, Dawa Tarchin Phillips breaks down the way these three principles build upon each other to give rise to and stabilize direct experience of emptiness.

By Dawa Tarchin Phillips

Apr 2020

Sketches of Norman Mailer and Samuel Beckett discussing Buddhism

MagazinePersonal Reflections

Circling Emptiness

Recalling his friendships with Norman Mailer and Samuel Beckett, a Zen student and writer grapples with a central Buddhist teaching.

By Lawrence Shainberg, Illustration by Barry Blitt

Fall 2019

Black circle of liquid on white background, emptiness in buddhism

Magazine

What’s in a Word? Emptiness

Our expert explains the etymology of emptiness.

By Andrew Olendzki

Winter 2018

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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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emptiness

Trike Daily Teachings

Seeing in the Dark

Dharma Talks

Meditating With Emptiness

Trike Daily Teachings

Seeing the Emptiness of Self

Dharma Talks

When You Greet Me I Bow: Relationship, Emptiness, Activism

Trike DailyPersonal Reflections

Letting Go to Find Yourself

Magazine

In Brief

Dharma Talks

The Three Principles of Awakening

MagazinePersonal Reflections

Circling Emptiness

Magazine

What’s in a Word? Emptiness