Transforming a Thai Temple Garden into Abstract Arttricycle.org - Lakshmi Gandhi Artist Sanitas Pradittasnee has visitors looking at one of Bangkok’s most sacred spaces in a new light. Pradittasnee has become known in recent years …
Game of Thrones What Do Buddhism and Game of Thrones Have in Common? More Than You Might Think.tricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams Of the millions of viewers expected to watch Game of Thrones when it returns for its final season on April 14, few, if any, will be tuning in because …
The Karmic Impact of Mass Incarcerationtricycle.org - Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar Morgan Leyenberger had been meditating for a decade and leading a nonprofit organization, Compassion Works for All, that brings meditation and other …
Santa Barbara, CA Take Your Time (Back) with Slow Art Daytricycle.org - Lauren Krauze On Saturday, April 6th, art museums and institutions around the world will host Slow Art Day, which features a variety of tours and discussion to …
Human Rights “Like Fish In A Pool with Little Water”: Who Will Help the Rohingya?tricycle.org - Matthew Gindin When taken up, the rod of violence breeds danger and fear. Seeing people in strife, I will tell you how I experienced terror. Seeing people like fish in …
Dalai Lama 2020 Election Even More Crowded as Dalai Lama Announces Exploratory Committeetricycle.org - Tricycle With 16 Democratic candidates competing in the 2020 presidential primary and more expected to announce, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama shocked …
Write Concentration: Using a Pen and Paper to Meditatetricycle.org - Lauren Krauze “How do I forgive?”When I wrote this question in my notebook, I was practicing being present. I had noticed my breath moving in and out of my body, …
Joy Is a Radical Acttricycle.org - Scott Tusa Joy is a radical act. That’s not how people usually think about joy, which is neither considered radical nor an action.Joy, as we typically …
Mindfulness Glimpsing Mindfulnesstricycle.org - Loch Kelly Effortless mindfulness is a unique form of mindfulness. What most people in the West know as mindfulness, I call deliberate mindfulness. I love these …
Mindfulness The Couch and the Cushion: Why Mindfulness Is No Substitute for Therapytricycle.org - Rande Brown In her 2010 book Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism, psychotherapist Pilar Jennings notes, “It is very possible to …
Tibetan Yoga Techniques for Better Breathingtricycle.org - Anyen Rinpoche In the Tibetan Buddhist teachings, the element of air and the breath are tied together through the word lung (Tib., rlung), which is embedded with …
Love Is a Skilltricycle.org - Ayya Khema Lovingkindness (Pali, metta) can never exist unless it flows from the heart. As long as it’s just embedded in a word it is nothing; it is worthless. …
Antiques Roadshow Buddha Buzz Weekly: New Shambhala Abuse Revelationstricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. List of …
Mindfulness These Are Not “Your” Thoughtstricycle.org - Joseph Goldstein It is important to make thoughts the object of mindfulness. If we remain unaware of thoughts as they arise, it is difficult to develop insight into …
Mindfulness Meditation Month 2019: Practicing with Joy and Gratitudetricycle.org - Tricycle Welcome back for the fourth and final week of Tricycle Meditation Month, our annual challenge to sit all 31 days of March with mindfulness instructor …
Mindfulness at Knifepointtricycle.org - Jill Satterfield A couple of weeks ago, craving some solitude and union with nature, I went for a meditative walk in the deep fog and soft drizzle that had been …
Hiking the Zen Pathtricycle.org - Christopher Ives About a half-mile from the trailhead, walking under oaks on the west side of the Dry River in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, I realize that since I …
How to Create a Mini-Retreat at Hometricycle.org - Chris McKenna Once a month, Tricycle features an article from Inquiring Mind, a Buddhist journal that was in print from 1984–2015 and now has a growing number of …
Black Lives Matter Buddhism’s Postmodern Agetricycle.org - Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar In 2008, religious studies professor David McMahan made the case in The Making of Buddhist Modernism that many convert lineages in the West had …
Escaping the Meditation Guilt Triptricycle.org - Alex Tzelnic I have long had the sneaking suspicion that Buddhists are especially prone to guilt—that it lurks underneath meditation cushions and leaps out from …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMindfulness Meditation Month 2019: Noting Pleasant, Unpleasant, and Neutral Sensations: Exploring Feeling Tonetricycle.org - Tricycle Tricycle Meditation Month is our annual challenge to sit every day for the month of March. In the third week of our free practice series, meditation …
Mindfulness How to Be in the Body (Without Jumping Out of Your Skin)tricycle.org - Scott Tusa “To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.” —Shunryu Suzuki Meditation happens in …
Mindfulness Directed and Undirected Meditationtricycle.org - Andrew Olendzki While many contemporary Buddhist teachers work diligently to make meditation instructions accessible to a modern audience, we can sometimes lose …
Meditating with Beethoventricycle.org - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche In many listening meditations, practitioners observe whatever sounds happen to arise around them, a method that has the benefit of being at our …
Tibetan Buddhism International Women's Day: Tapping Into Our Fierce Feminine Energytricycle.org - Tricycle Thank you for subscribing to Tricycle! As a nonprofit, we depend on readers like you to keep Buddhist teachings and practices widely available.
The Zen of Not Knowingtricycle.org - Zenkei Blanche Hartman Beginner’s mind is Zen practice in action. It is the mind that is innocent of preconceptions and expectations, judgments and prejudices. Beginner’s …
Sixty Years in Search of Freedomtricycle.org - Bhuchung D Sonam I have a vivid memory of the 1987 March 10 Tibetan National Uprising Day. An eighth grader, I walked up from our school in lower Dharamsala, India, …
Boston College Dharma Talks for Going Deepertricycle.org - Tricycle Buddhist meditation practices take many forms.For Tricycle Meditation Month, we are making available for free three video Dharma Talk series from the …
Mindfulness Walking Meditation—Anywheretricycle.org - Thich Nhat Hanh The primary purpose of walking meditation is to completely enjoy the experience of walking. We walk all the time, but usually our walking is more …
What's in a Word? Nirvanatricycle.org - Andrew Olendzki The Pali word nibbana (nirvana in Sanskrit) was first used by the Buddha to describe the highest state of profound well-being a human is capable of …
