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Tricycle’s Summer Reading List: 7 Books to Read This Season
From ancient Buddhist stories to new novels with Buddhist settings or themes, this summer reading list has something for everyone.
From ancient Buddhist stories to new novels with Buddhist settings or themes, this summer reading list has something for everyone.
Meditation teacher and political columnist Jay Michaelson explains how jhana meditation is a transformative and vital part of the eightfold path.
The Samadhanga Sutta explains how insight arises from developing jhana, the Buddha’s concentration.
A practice to develop the steady mind necessary for attaining wisdom
If games that train and transport your mind are cheating, then so are vast swaths of the Buddhist tradition, according to this meditation teacher.
At the heart of the Buddha’s teaching there are doctrines and strategies that dharma students must learn, and internalize, in order to understand his map to liberation. But few strategies are as central to the Buddhist path, and as little known to Westerners, as those called the jhanas. Jhana is the Pali word for mental […]
How did the jhanas fit into the Buddha’s own liberation, and how did they become the backbone of his teachings?
An interview with meditation teacher Leigh Brasington
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