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

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

"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 · 2d

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 · 2d

"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 · 3d

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 · 3d

“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 · 3d

“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 · 3d

"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 · 3d

"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 · 4d

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 · 4d

“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 · 4d

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.

Learn more for free below!

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

"Did they see me coming, these ancestors of mine? Could they have imagined a descendant like me, navigating job loss and reinvention in a digital world of social media, artificial intelligence, and climate change?" —Daisy Lin

Zen in the Age of Layoffs

Finding ancestral wisdom in groundlessness

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

"When you try to ignore something or push it away, it actually seems to have a larger and more unrelenting presence. But when you turn toward and pay attention to the discomfort, it loses power over you." —Susan Bauer-Wu #DailyDharma

Tuning Into the Body

A meditation teacher and nurse explains how to connect with your body when it is suffering from serious illness.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 5d

October’s Film Club pick is “Saffron Heart,” a moving story of a Tibetan boy and the path he takes toward transforming his way of thinking.

Subscribers can watch the film now until the end of the month at the link below.

Saffron Heart: Tricycle Film Club

The film "Saffron Heart" is the story of a young Tibetan boy who was sent to a Buddhist monastery in South India and the transformations that happened to his way of thinking.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 5d

“Great teachers bend light so that others might see.” –Sister Peace, senior monastic in the Plum Village community in reference to the late Larry Ward.

The Thunderous Resonance of Bodhisattva True Great Sound

Buddhist teachers honor the life of Reverend Dr. Larry Ward.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 5d

"For the Buddha, the anxious person was ignorant and deluded, clinging on to, grasping at, a quicksilver, ever-morphing reality, holding on for dear life to transient, ever-becoming possessions belonging to a nonexistent being." —Samir Chopra

The Anxiety of Existence

Anxiety is an inevitability of life. To confront it, we must come to terms with our own impermanence.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 5d

Today marks the beginning of Kathina, a month-long festival celebrated at the end of the rains retreat in Theravada Buddhist traditions.

Learn more at the free link below!

Kathina

The Buddhist festival of Kathina occurs at the end of the three-month-long rains retreat in Theravada countries.

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 5d

"Open to what is. Let go of those add-ons we’re conditioned to pile on: Don’t be afraid of what you are feeling." — @sharonsalzberg.bsky.social #DailyDharma

Forever Connected

Some things just hurt. But the key to resilience is remembering that we are never truly alone.

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

In a recent interview, Sister True Virtue, the first western woman to be ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh, insists on the centrality of ethics to right mindfulness and offers techniques for facing suffering directly.

Click the link below to read the full interview.

Training the Heart

Sister True Virtue on mindfulness and monastic life in Plum Village

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

Check out what we’re listening to! In the latest issue we discuss two audiobooks, a dharma talk, and a documentary to enhance your Buddhist practice.

Click the link below to learn more.

What We’re Listening To

Two audiobooks, a dharma talk, and a documentary to enhance your Buddhist practice

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

"I knew I had deep-rooted insecurities about where I was in my life and if I was living how I thought I should be. By clinging to these doubts, I was implanting myself in a reality where I was not enough." —Mallika Iyer
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 6d

Join us on October 15 at 1 p.m. ET for a live event on Zoom with Nikki Mirghafori exploring how Buddhist wisdom can inform the ethical development and use of 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 · 6d

"If you look at the facts of something and write down your thoughts, you find that those thoughts lead to certain feelings, and those feelings lead to action. If you can practice new thoughts, you can change outcomes for yourself." —Catherine Burns #DailyDharma

How to Break Free from the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Catherine Burns, artistic director at The Moth, shares what she has learned about the art of storytelling.

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