Rodney Smith, from the third talk, “The Practice of Selfnessness,” from his ongoing Tricycle Retreat,   Wise View is a restatement of what life is. We say, “Life is more connected than it appears or has…

To a liberal, educated public, stalwart atheist and PEN Award winner Sam Harris may come off as a brave iconoclast. But if you take a look at Jackson Lears’s “Same Old New Atheism: On Sam Harris”…

Sharon Salzberg is now leading a Tricycle Retreat on The Five Hindrances, the five negative thought patterns that interrupt our practice (and life). The following meditation instructions are from pages 46-51 of her bestselling book Real…

We did it! We just finished sitting together in the office for the final day of the 28-day meditation challenge. It feels good. Now we’re all completely enlightened and we’ll never have to meditate again. Just…

In late September 2010 I traveled by train to Cambridge, Massachusetts. As I passed through Rhode Island, bored, tired, hungry—all the small negatives that combined make travel a magical experience—I remembered some snippets of history, King…