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New online course with Bodhi College! Explore Buddhism’s five hindrances: sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and worry, and doubt. Class begins November 10.

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Meeting the Five Hindrances

An online course about how to find clarity in meditation and in life

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 4h

"Buddhist practice reminds us that even everyday tasks can be a part of our mindfulness practice." –Cat Shteynberg

Cancer, Samatha, and the Art of Stopping

Faced with a terminal illness, a practitioner and working mother imparts a lesson on how to rest with intention.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 4h

October is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Awareness Month. In the piece below, meditation teacher Bernat Font discusses his experience with OCD and Buddhism.

The Doubting Disease

A Buddhist’s struggle with OCD

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 4h

"All experience, all reality (as we keep having to learn) is in the present. That makes it the only place where we can enjoy things." —Dean Sluyter #DailyDharma

Macbeth Flunks the Marshmallow Test

Shakespeare’s insight into sublime patience—and the tragic lack thereof

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 1d

In this episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher @sharonsalzberg.bsky.social sit down with climate activist Jess Serrante to discuss the life and legacy of environmental activist Joanna Macy.

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Remembering Joanna Macy

Climate activist Jess Serrante reflects on the lessons she learned from working with the late environmental activist Joanna Macy.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 1d

Try this tree root practice from Jack Kornfield, perfect for when you are in the middle of concerns or anxiety, hopes or plans, or anything that takes you away from being here on this earth.

Tree Root Practice

American Theravada teacher Jack Kornfield reflects on the lessons he learned from nature while studying in the forest tradition.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn’t until about the first century BCE that images depicting the Buddha in human form were created. As Buddhism spread from India, images of the Buddha were increasingly incorporated into the art and cultural forms of the host regions.

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Why are there so many different kinds of images of the Buddha?

The Buddha is believed to have told his followers not to make images of him, but after his death Buddha images proliferated, influenced by diverse cultures.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 1d

"If your actions are going to be skillful, they have to come from a place where the mind can consider things carefully, clearly, and quickly. The more the mind is still, the more it’s able to do these things." —Thānissaro Bhikkhu #DailyDharma

A Position of Strength

A Theravada monk imparts a timeless lesson on the relationship between stillness and action

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 2d

"What makes innate joy radical is that it denies the basic idea that happiness is a zero-sum game." —Scott Tusa

Joy Is a Radical Act

Real happiness can be a powerful force for change, but we have to look inside ourselves to find it.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 2d

"This drive to expand, to accumulate, feels almost hardwired into us, an instinct we’ve rarely questioned. We don’t just store objects; we store memories, identities, and fears. It’s what so many Buddhist teachings try to combat.” —Christopher Rivas

Non-Self Storage

What do we cling to—and what do we pay for it?

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 2d

What happens when we stop fighting the inner critic and simply listen?

In our latest Dharma Talk, Compassion and the Inner Critic, teacher Laura Bridgman speaks about meeting our experience whatever it may be with honesty, patience, and care.

Compassion and the Inner Critic

Laura Bridgman explores how meditative awareness helps us meet experience, including the inner critic, with curiosity and compassion.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 2d

"Meditation is not merely a useful technique or mental gymnastic, but part of a balanced system designed to change the way we go about things at the most fundamental level." —Judy Lief #DailyDharma

Meditation Alone Is Not Enough

The practice of mindfulness-awareness meditation does not take place in a vacuum.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 6d

Being a Buddhist parent can be challenging: time for practice is rare, and bringing children to a dharma center poses its own difficulties. Mariana Restrepo reflects on including her kids in Buddhist life.

Bridging Family and Community Practice

Making space for children at the dharma center

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 6d

Leo Tolstoy was certainly interested in the Buddha’s teachings, but how should we appraise the role of Buddhism in his work?

Find out in the piece below.

The Buddha of Yasnaya Polyana

Looking back at the Buddhist leanings and spiritual scavenging of Leo Tolstoy

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 6d

"During this degenerate age, irreversible faith cannot surface without serious study, thorough contemplation, and diligent meditation practice." —Khenpo Sodargye

Four Kinds of Faith

Tibetan Buddhist lama and scholar Khenpo Sodargye on the type of faith that makes practice transcendent

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 6d

Transform your life with Tricycle’s latest online course. Over six weeks, we will train in wisdom, compassion, nonduality, and emptiness using a key Buddhist text, “Eight Verses of Mind Training,” as our guide.

Enroll today to get started!

Training the Mind: Lojong and Mindfulness

Transform Your Life Through Non-Dual Compassion and Wisdom

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 6d

"Questioning in a meditative way doesn’t demand an answer. We come to this art of inquiry with an attitude of openheartedness. We familiarize ourselves with silence, because wise questions and fruitful responses arise out of silence." —Narayan Helen Liebenson #DailyDharma

Practice Questioning

Deep inquiry can be a core aspect of meditation practice. Here’s how to ask skillful questions of ourselves.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 7d

On October 15 at 1 p.m. ET, Buddhist teacher and AI scientist Nikki Mirghafori will lead a virtual conversation exploring how Buddhist wisdom such as interdependence and embodiment can inform how we relate to artificial intelligence.

Learn more below!

Interdependent Intelligence: A Buddhist Take on AI

Join AI scientist and Buddhist teacher Nikki Mirghafori for a discussion on how to think about and use AI from a Buddhist perspective.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 7d

“Compassion is the primary attitude that assists the awakening to reality.” –Karuna Cayton

The Myth of Reality

A psychologist on how understanding the nature of reality is the foundation of Buddhism

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 7d

“Investigating pleasure and pain, we see that they are not ours to claim. Pleasure is neither our right nor a reward—just as pain isn’t punishment for our actions.” —Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

The Eight Worldly Winds: Pleasure and Pain

Printable aids for the pillars of Buddhist practice

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 7d

"How do we get gold out of the process of inner self-awareness? The process starts with a capacity to observe our thoughts, emotions, motivations, and behaviors without judgment, over time." —Christiana Figueres

3 Lessons from the Japanese Art of Kintsugi

Christiana Figueres on using the pottery practice to relate to a broken world

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 7d

"Establishing a meditation practice where we become intimate with the elements offers us a way to connect to the presence of nature within ourselves, seeing over time that we are nature, not something separate from it." –Juliana Sloane #DailyDharma

A Meditation Practice to Connect with Nature

The natural world is an ally to our practice.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations to Arthur Sze, who was just named the 25th Poet Laureate of the United States! To celebrate his appointment, we're revisiting this 2024 episode of Tricycle Talks. @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze on Translating Loss and Renewal

Arthur Sze’s translations illustrate the vitality and versatility of the Chinese poetic tradition across nearly two millennia.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 8d

“Western notions of Buddhism have stripped it of its supernatural, ritual, and material culture, unless, of course, it’s associated with philosophically aligned canonical texts, monks, or mindfulness.” –Susanne Kerekes

A Thai Sacred-Tattoo Burger? Why This Counts as Buddhism

A new Bangkok tourist attraction blends the spiritual and the culinary.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 8d

Are there other Buddhas? The term buddha means “awake” or “awakened,” so it can refer to any number of beings that are believed to be fully enlightened, not just the historical Buddha.

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Are there other Buddhas?

The term buddha means “awake”, so in Buddhist scriptures, legends, and art, we see many other buddhas besides the one we probably think of as the Buddha.

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