A Moral Politics
Nourishing change in US food policy
Food
What do Buddhists eat? What do you eat on a Buddhist retreat? Are Buddhists vegetarian and what does Buddhism say about eating meat? How can Buddhist ethics impact what we eat? Explore all these questions and more what Buddhism has to say about food, eating, and cooking.
Mindful Eating: You Saw It Here First
Mindful eating has hit the New York Times! One of our sharp-eyed editors spied this article yesterday in the Dining and Wine section of the Gray Lady: “Mindful Eating as Food for Thought.” In it, Jeff…
PHOTOS: BGR’s Walk to Feed the Hungry
Buddhist Global Relief hosted its second annual Walk to Feed the Hungry event in New York City last weekend. Bhante Buddharakkhita led a large group of walkers up and down a beautiful stretch of Riverside Park,…
Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat
Due to Buddhist teachings on nonviolence and compassion, people often assume that Buddhists are vegetarians. Indeed, many Tricycle readers cried foul after we ran a recipe in the Winter 2010 issue that listed chicken as an…
Just Right
Not so long ago I read the “new” Suzuki Roshi book, Not Always So (published in 2003.) I thought, wow, these guys did a great job, it’s exactly like Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind! But when I…
The Joy of Mindful Cooking
Laura Fraser on practicing awareness in the kitchen
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage-Lifter Tomato
The summer fruit’s past lives as love potion and nightshade poison
MeditationMagazine | Into Practice
Mindful Eating
Five ways to develop a skillful relationship with food from physician and Zen Priest Jan Chozen Bays.
World Food Crisis; Street Zen
The world food crisis: Scientists and economists worry that the reallocation of scarce water resources — away from rice and other grains and toward more lucrative crops and livestock — threatens poor countries that import rice…
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