Science

Buddha Buzz: Religious Freedom, Swastikas, and the Giving High

We’re starting off this week’s Buddha Buzz with a pretty clear example of religious intolerance in Hudson, Wisconsin. Don Chering, a Buddhist, put up an American flag and a string of Tibetan prayer flags on the…

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Jan 13, 2012

Books

Special Karma

This fall a copy of Merry White Benezra’s novel Special Karma: A Zen Novel of Love and Folly arrived in the Tricycle office. The book closely tracks the experiences of the narrator, Iris (modeled on the…

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Jan 13, 2012

Buddha Buzz

Buddha Buzz: Mindfulness for Doctors, Meditation’s Downfalls, and the Avian Flu

A sobering article out of the NY Times this week called “As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows.” From the article: Hospitals and doctors’ offices, hoping to curb medical error, have invested heavily to…

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Dec 16, 2011

Buddha Buzz

Buddha Buzz: Steve Jobs’s Death and Dharma

“The moments of our life are not expendable,And the [possible] circumstances of death are beyond imaginationIf you do not achieve an undaunted confident security now,What point is there in your being alive, O living creature?” —Padmasambhava,…

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Oct 06, 2011

Meditation Interviews

Ethical Wisdom: An interview with Mark Matousek

Mark Matousek is a Tricycle contributing editor. His new book, Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good, is now available in bookstores.Your new book, Ethical Wisdom, is about maybe the most important subject in the world: human…

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Jun 01, 2011

Meditation Psychology

The Brains of Buddhist Monks

Buddhism and the brain is a hot topic these days. Here’s a recent BBC News report on meditation and the brains of Buddhist monks: Dr Josipovic’s research is part of a larger effort better to understand…

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Apr 25, 2011

Meditation Psychology

Meditation makes you a more rational decision maker

According to a recent study conducted by researchers in Canada and the US, meditation can actually reprogram the brain to make more rational–and less emotional–decisions. Via USA Today: The researchers looked at a classic psychological test…

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Apr 20, 2011

News

Wisdom 2.0 livestream begins today!

Can’t make it to the Bay Area for this weekend’s Wisdom 2.0 conference? No shirt, no shoes, no problem: You can watch the event live here. The Wisdom 2.0 Conference is a one-of-a-kind event that launched…

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Feb 25, 2011

Meditation Psychology

Eastern vs. Western conceptions of “mindfulness”

As a student on the Antioch Education Abroad Buddhist Studies program in India, in 2005, I recall the director of the program, Robert Pryor, telling me during an afternoon tea break that he believed that scientists…

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Jul 22, 2010