Joy

Where is the Joy?

Week 3 of Zen teacher Ezra Bayda’s Tricycle Retreat, “Relationships, Love, and Spiritual Practice” begins today! So far the retreat has been quite a success with lots of fruitful discussion as Ezra takes us deeper and…

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Humor

The Dalai Lama “Joke” and Buddhist Humor

What’s so funny about suffering, anyway? Well, this week, if you follow Dalai Lama news, you couldn’t help but see his bemused reaction to the mangled failure of a “joke” from Australian newscaster Karl Stevanovic. (What…

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BuddhaFest: Cave in the Snow

The Tricycle BuddhaFest Online Film Festival continues today with Cave in the Snow, a 52-minute film about the life of Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, one of the most senior nuns in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She spent…

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Obituaries News

Charlotte Joko Beck has died

Zen teacher Charlotte Joko Beck has died. Her dharma heir Elihu Genmyo Smith, writes: The following from Joko’s daughter and son: Our mother, Joko, died peacefully at 0730 Wednesday June 15, 2011. That’s all for now. …

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Sports

Spirit in Sport

  When hungry, eat; when tired, sleep. — Zen Proverb They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. — Willie Mays Years ago, I sat on the floor across a…

By Andrew Cooper

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