Visiting Teacher: Tenku Ruff, Oshotricycle.org - The Editors When did you become a Buddhist and why? I can’t say exactly when—it was a slow, organic process. I started practicing during a five-day silent …
Cake The Name(s) On My Birthday Caketricycle.org - Leath Tonino “The perfect place to get free of your name.” That’s how the prolific Tang Dynasty poet and devoted Chan (Jp. Zen) student Po Chu-i described …
Vegetables Dogen Said Not to Waste a Single Grain of Rice. Here’s How.tricycle.org - Gesshin Claire Greenwood If learning to eat at the monastery was acclimating to the practice of consuming whatever was put in front of me, learning to cook at the monastery …
Mind 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 …
Zen’s Seven Wonderstricycle.org - Guo Jun We usually don’t realize the preciousness of the breath. We breathe in; we breathe out. Nothing special. It is always helpful to remind ourselves …
Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen Under a New Lighttricycle.org - Matthew Gindin I was always working steady But I never called it art I was funding my depression Meeting Jesus reading Marx Sure it failed my little fire But it’s bright …
Everything Human Is Naturaltricycle.org - Alan Watts Man is as much attached to nature as a tree, and though he walks freely on two legs and is not rooted in the soil, he is by no means a …
Sleeping in an Old Friend’s Roomtricycle.org - Leath Tonino A few years ago I fell into the lovely habit of sitting on my fire escape every morning with a pot of black coffee and The Roaring Stream: A New Zen …
Waking from a Crazy Dreamtricycle.org - Leath Tonino A few years ago I fell into the lovely habit of sitting on my fire escape every morning with a pot of black coffee and The Roaring Stream: A New Zen …
Ten Minutes Alone in Thicketstricycle.org - Leath Tonino A few years ago I fell into the lovely habit of sitting on my fire escape every morning with a pot of black coffee and The Roaring Stream: A New Zen …
What’s There to Do?tricycle.org - Leath Tonino A few years ago I fell into the lovely habit of sitting on my fire escape every morning with a pot of black coffee and The Roaring Stream: A New Zen …
Reading Garry Shandling’s “Zen Diaries”tricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams For most of Garry Shandling’s life, his work and Zen practice were one and the same. “Work is an expression of life, of Zen,” the comedian wrote in …
Poetry for Now and Zentricycle.org - Leath Tonino A few years ago I fell into the lovely habit of sitting on my fire escape every morning with a pot of black coffee and The Roaring Stream: A New Zen …
Not Looking at Zen Arttricycle.org - Gordon Greene Don’t look at Zen art. You will miss much of the richness of the experience. Instead, join the artist in as many ways as you can, with as many senses …
The Slow Burntricycle.org - Alex Tzelnic Bernie Flynn, a longtime student of Chögyam Trungpa, recently told me about the time he and the Rinpoche tried to quit smoking cigarettes. A few days …
(Meta)Physical Educationtricycle.org - Alex Tzelnic (Meta)Physical Education is a series about the lessons that Alex Tzelnic, a Zen practitioner, has learned while teaching gym at a Montessori school. …
Watch an Exclusive Clip From Walk with Me, a New Film about Thich Nhat Hanhtricycle.org - Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar What would it be like to spend three years in the presence of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh? Viewers of Walk with Me will get a taste of life at Plum …
Contemplate Death (and Life) This Summer At a Historic Brooklyn Cemeterytricycle.org - Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar For six evenings this summer, New Yorkers can have all of Green-Wood Cemetery’s 478 acres (almost) to themselves to meditate and contemplate a topic …
Revisiting Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenancetricycle.org - Dan Zigmond Robert Pirsig died on Monday, April 24, 2017, at his home in Maine. He was 88 and had been in poor health for some time. In 1974, he published Zen and …
Frank Ostaseski: Learning to Live Fullytricycle.org - Frank Ostaseski A pioneer in end-of-life care, Frank Ostaseski brings his Buddhist practice—and a startlingly respectful compassion—to the bedsides of people who are …
Why You’re Addicted to Your Phonetricycle.org - Kurt Spellmeyer About two years ago, I lost my phone. Waiting at Newark International Airport, I heard the cancellation of my Chicago flight, closed down by a …
Zen in the Workplacetricycle.org - Gerry Shishin Wick Sensei Shishin Sensei, Zen teacher and corporate director, on the enlightened qualities of every good manager: When the country prospers, the king’s name is …
Zen Catholictricycle.org - Thomas Moore I was born into a Catholic family and have never left the Catholicism of my birth. This is the starting point and the basis of my religious life: I …
How Zen Buddhism Helped Olympian Anthony Ervin Turn His Life Aroundtricycle.org - Lakshmi Gandhi There’s nothing more satisfying to watch than a good sports comeback story. For fans who tuned in to the Olympics Friday night, witnessing American …
5 things you need to know about Kazuki Yazawa, the Olympian turned Buddhist priesttricycle.org - Lakshmi Gandhi While it is certainly not unusual for Olympic athletes to start their days well before the crack of dawn, canoeist Kazuki Yazawa isn’t hitting the …
Remembering How to Walktricycle.org - John House In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud. Somewhere in my late …
Zen Coming of Age in a Secular Eratricycle.org - Katherine Ozment Journalist Katherine Ozment’s new book, Grace without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age details the author’s attempt …
Zen The Transcendent Imperative: Zen Buddhism and "flow" psychologytricycle.org - Andrew Cooper The truth is that the more ourselves we are, the less self is in us. –Meister Eckhart In a glowing passage from Anna Karenina, Tolstoy describes an …
My Short Brilliant Zen Careertricycle.org - Sandy Boucher With her stern, delicately feminine features, her freshly shaven head, and her immaculate dove-gray robe, Gesshin Prabhasa Dharma Roshi cut a …
