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New Downloadable Transcripts for Tricycle Online Retreats
We are happy to announce that from now on, all of our online, four-week retreats will have downloadable transcripts for the hearing impaired. The transcripts for our current retreat with Segyu Rinpoche, and for all…
Meditation Month: Day 11, A Snowy Practice
As I’m sure most of you know, it was quite a snowy weekend for those of us living in the Northeast. On Sunday morning I woke up early, planning to sit in my usual spot…
Meditation Month, Day 8: Meditation, Interrupted
My regular sitting practice tapered off about a year ago. I wish I could say what happened and why but I’m not really sure. My life didn’t fall apart or anything. Nor did it fall apart…
Meditation Month, Day 7: Thanking my Suffering
This past weekend, I told my friends when it was over, will hereby be known as The Weekend of the Unfortunate Decisions. It was a series of choices so emotionally masochistic that they deserve to be…
Meditation Month, Day 4: The Perfect Sit
This is my third year participating in the 28-day commit to sit, and each year I’m reminded that the conditions for integrating a daily practice into my life are never “perfect.” There’s always some challenge, some…
On Pilgrimage
The following poem was submitted by Steve Kohn, a participant in last year’s “In the Footsteps of the Buddha” Tricycle pilgrimage to India. He was inspired to submit the poem upon reading Pico Iyer’s piece in…
May I Live With Ease: Final Week of Cyndi Lee’s Retreat
In this final week’s teaching of Cyndi Lee’s retreat, “May I Live With Ease,” Cyndi discusses how we can turn our normal resistances to our practice into focused exertion. By taking a closer look at our…
Buddha Buzz: Buddhist News from Around the World, Week of December 31
Happy New Year, everyone! Over the holiday break, Tricycle was saddened to hear of a Christmas Day plane crash in Burma in which three Burmese died and the founders of the Community Meditation Center, Susanna Weiss…
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