
Personal Reflections

Understanding and responding to the latest college-student abduction by ICE

Personal Reflections Monasticism
My Time in Robes
A former monastic reflects on their time as a fully ordained bhikkhu and why they eventually made the decision to return to lay life.

Personal Reflections Photo Essay
The Way of the Rails
Life as a train ride across the country

Personal Reflections Parenting
They Didn’t Teach This Stuff in the ’80s . . .
What Buddhist teachings on compassion can teach us about child-rearing and emotional coregulation

Appreciating Life and Creating a Life Worth Appreciating
Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Bianca Bosker about how art helps us live more expansively and brings us closer together.

Personal Reflections Zen Buddhism
Leaving Home
A Zen priest on the history and present-day practice of going forth and attaining the Way

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Replanting the Garden
A young monastic tends to his dying elder.

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Openings, Podcasts
Self-Talk
An excerpt of a conversation between George Mumford, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Opening Up to Grief
In the search for her lost father, a daughter finds the dharma.

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