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New Issue of Tricycle Now Up Online!

Spring 2013

Packed with practical wisdom from your favorite teachers
New online retreat with Sharon Salzberg

Real Happiness:
A 28-Day Meditation Program

Watch the this week's teaching on mindfulness and the body
New Video Teachings by Tara Brach

Embodied Spirit

Plus a weeklong discussion with the Insight Meditation
Community of Washington teacher

Noticing What is There

It is inevitable that one will discern unwholesome qualities of mind when one looks openly on what is actually occurring in experience. As many people remark, meditation can be …

–Andrew Olendzki
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Buddhist news, ideas, and community

Blog»

  • Meditation Month: Day 11, A Snowy Practice
    As I'm sure most of you know, it was quite a snowy weekend for those of us living in the Northeast...
  • Mindfulness And The Body: Second Week of Sharon Salzberg's Retreat
    In this second week of Sharon Salzberg's retreat, "Mindfulness and the Body," she expands our...
  • Meditation Month, Day 8: Meditation, Interrupted
    My regular sitting practice tapered off about a year ago. I wish I could say what happened and why...
  • Buddha Buzz: Chinese New Year and Death Cafes
    Chinese New Year this year falls on Sunday, February 10. It's the year of the black water snake. If...
  • Meditation Month: Guided Body Scan Meditation
    It's Meditation Month here at Tricycle! That means it's time to join the Tricycle staff in making...

Community»

  • February Film Club: When the Iron Bird Flies
    Welcome to the Tricycle film club! In 1959, the Chinese invasion of Tibet threw open the doors to...
  • Sitting Pains: A Meditation Month Discussion
    This discussion is now closed. It's Meditation Month here at Tricycle! Are you joining us in...
  • Buddhist New Year Resolutions: A Discussion with Josh Korda
    This discussion is now closed. Please note that your comments will no longer be responded to....
  • January Film Club: American Mystic
    Welcome to the Tricycle film club! Set against the rich, color-soaked backdrop of America's rural...
  • Difficult Relationships: A Discussion with Ezra Bayda
    This discussion is now closed.   "If you want to test your enlightenment," wrote one Facebook...

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The Still Point

Buddhist wisdom, meditation, and practice

Retreats»

  • Real Happiness: A 28-Day Meditation Program
    Sharon Salzberg
  • May I Be Happy: Getting Aligned for the New Year
    Cyndi Lee
  • Transforming Self, Transforming Earth: A Buddhist Ecology
    David Loy
  • How a Buddhist Can Prepare for Death
    Caroline Yongue

Gallery»

  • Tree behind Nandigaddi
    In 2010, “Photos for Rato,” a worldwide exhibition of Vreeland’s photographs, helped to fund the $...
  • Tenzin Drakpa
    In 2010, “Photos for Rato,” a worldwide exhibition of Vreeland’s photographs, helped to fund the $...
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    In 2010, “Photos for Rato,” a worldwide exhibition of Vreeland’s photographs, helped to fund the $...

Magazine»

  • Allegiance to Life
    It’s no secret that our world is in a tough spot. The critical problems that we face today—...
  • Reel Rinpoche
    It’s day 23 of a 41-day film shoot for Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s third feature film (working...
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    Author Nancy Baker is currently leading a Tricycle community discussion about sexual misconduct and...

Wisdom Collection»

  • Occupy Buddhism
    Marx’s Revenge When the Dalai Lama announced his Marxist leanings last summer in Minneapolis, the...
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    Ken McLeod continues his commentary on the 37 Practices of the Bodhisattva with the 35th verse....

Tricycle Teachings»

  • Tricycle Teachings: Meditation, Vol. 2

    Whether you have months of retreat under your belt or have never been able to keep up a regular meditation practice, ...

  • Tricycle Teachings: Body in Practice

    In sitting meditation, it often occurs to us that our bodies have been the last thing on our minds; we've been living in a...

  • Tricycle Teachings: Dying & Death

    Death is universal and inevitable. Sooner or later, it comes to all of us. As Buddhists, we are taught that the experience of...

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