How to Break Free of the Inner Critic
In a recent episode of Life As It Is, pediatrician and Zen priest Jan Chozen Bays shares strategies to combat burnout.
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Finding Grace Amid the Grief
In his latest book, The Trail to Kanjiroba, conservationist William deBuys reflects on how we can apply hospice ethics to how we care for the planet.
The Myth of Separation
Tara Brach and Konda Mason on plant-based eating
The Jhana Underground
The mid-20th century Theravada reforms favored vipassana (insight) over samatha (concentration) and the altered mind-state of the jhanas associated with it. What the sangha didn’t know was that six thousand miles away, a hitchhiking ex-monk, reformed village bad boy, embassy employee, and future gem salesman kept the old tradition going right under their noses.
Zen’s Unassuming Pioneer
How the “Great Simplicity” of D.T. Suzuki popularized Zen in America
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To Be or Not to Be
An excerpt from a conversation between author Jay L. Garfield and Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen.
Existential Creativity
The role of the artist in a time of crisis
The Monk and the Centipede
A harrowing experience sparks a budding scholar’s interest in Buddhist medicine.
Ritual as an Opening to Love
In a recent episode of Tricycle Talks, scholar Anne C. Klein discusses how rituals can help us get out of our heads and tap into bodhicitta, or the awakened mind.
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