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Digital Detox: Reclaim Your Mind From Social Media Addiction

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram—these sites and other social media platforms can be emotional minefields, and they eat up far more time than many of us are OK with. Triratna teacher Bodhipaksa offers five practices from the Buddha…

By Bodhipaksa

Jan 2020

Ideas Politics

The Russian Plot to Control Your Mindfulness

What a faux-spiritual Facebook page run by Kremlin propagandists can teach us about encountering our own biases and emotional reactions.

By Bodhipaksa

Oct 03, 2018

News

Buddha Buzz Weekly: Aug. 25, 2018

Buddhist leaders resign, Facebook changes its rules on “Buddhism,” and China denies a Tibetan activist’s appeal. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.

By Matthew Abrahams

Aug 25, 2018

Make your next Facebook status: “Just meditated to ensure that I care about all you people.”

A recent study, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, has found that college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than they were in 1979, with the steepest decline coming…

By Tricycle

Oct 18, 2010

Buddhist Teachers on Facebook

A 10-second history of the internet: First, there was a Big Bang (millions of individual little websites spewing out randomly into a vast virtual cosmos) followed by a Big Crunch (everybody slamming together onto social networking…

By Tricycle

Jul 27, 2010

7 ways to use the internet to reduce suffering.

In a recent Bearing Witness Blog post entitled 7 ways to use the internet to reduce suffering, Ari Pliskin lists seven important points that were explored during the Wisdom 2.0 summit that took place earlier this…

By Tricycle

Jul 22, 2010