When people think of meditation, they most commonly think of a person sitting cross-legged on the floor or a cushion. Many might be surprised to learn that in the Buddha’s instructions to his disciples, he actually placed equal emphasis on “sitting, standing, walking, and lying down” (a phrase that appears throughout the Pali Canon). This […]

B. Alan Wallace’s new book Minding Closely: The Four Applications of Mindfulness, is bound to stir up a little controversy. Despite the free-wheeling way mindfulness is used to mean, well, just about anything that involves living a deliberate or contemplative life in today’s popular culture, Wallace describes a firmer grounding for the practice: Mindfulness practices […]

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 Surya Das, Ruth King, Hugh Byrne, and Jonathan Foust. Read more about the event here. Tricycle has also been […]