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February 1	The First Noble Truth: Suffering
February 8	Understanding The Truth Of Suffering
February 15	The Second Noble Truth: The Cause of Suffering
February 22	The Cause Of Suffering: Addiction To Negative Emotions
March 1	The Cause of Suffering: Karma
March 8	The Third Noble Truth: Cessation of Suffering
March 15	The Fourth Noble Truth: The Path
March 22	The Fourth Noble Truth And Three Higher Trainings

Spring 2010

Vol. 19, No. 3

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The Rebel Abbot of Zen Mountain

By Sean Murphy

If anyone will be remembered as a major ancestor of Zen in America, it will be John Daido Loori Roshi, who died on October 9, 2009, of lung cancer. Born in Jersey City, in 1931, into a working-class Catholic family, he was by nature a freethinker and a rebel. Dissatisfied with the answers provided by conventional religion, he considered himself an atheist in his youth.
Generosity (and Greed) Introduction

When you are practicing generosity, you should feel a little pinch when you give something away. That pinch is your stinginess protesting. If you give away your old, worn-out coat that you wouldn’t be caught dead wearing, that is not generosity.
Good Work

By Monty McKeever and Michaela Haas

When Cyclone Nargis hit Burma in May 2008, it took the lives of nearly 150,000 people and left at least a million homeless. While relief organizations waited at the country’s borders to deliver aid, the Foundation for the People of Burma (FPB) was already there.
Curds and the Middle Way

By Noa Jones

Curd. It’s not a pretty word. It brings to mind tea accidents, milk slipped into lemon infusion, coagulation, spoilage, and mysterious nursery rhymes involving innocent girls and dangling spiders.

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Jodo Shinshu: The Way of Shinran

Over the past few years, Tricycle has featured a number of articles about Jodo Shinshu, or Shin Buddhism, which developed from the insight of Shinran (1173-1263), a Japanese monk that Rev. Dr. Alfred Bloom calls a "towering figure" in Buddhism. Read the articles below to get a sense of Shinran and his teachings, and the modern practice of Jodo Shinshu.
Simply Stop

By Thich Nhat Hanh

In Master Linji's time, some Buddhist terms were used so often they became meaningless. People chewed on terms like “liberation” and “enlightenment” until they lost their power. It’s no different today.
The Myth of the Experienced Meditator

By Barry Evans

I tell Kyodo Roshi I want to take my practice to a deeper level. "Deeper level?" He laughs again. "What do you mean, 'deeper'? Zen practice only one level. No deep, understand?"

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Pema Chödrön on Building a Stable Foundation

When we build a house, we start by creating a stable foundation. Just so, when we wish to benefit others, we start by developing warmth or friendship for ourselves. It’s common, however, for people to have a distorted view of this friendliness and warmth. We’ll say, for instance, that we need to take care of [...]

(Almost) Daily Words of Wisdom from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

One of my favorite newsletters is Carolyn Gimian’s “Ocean of Dharma.” You can sign up for it here and join nearly 10,000 others who receive jewels of wisdom from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche two or three times a week. Here’s today’s, one I particularly liked: Keep the Moth Out of the Flame When you are trying to help [...]

China’s handpicked Panchen Lama “elected” Vice President of Buddhist group

As reported by phayul.com: Dharamsala, February 4 – The handpicked “11th Panchen Lama Gaincain Norbu” has been “elected” as one of the 25 vice presidents of the Buddhist Association of China on Wednesday, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the eighth national conference of the Buddhist Association of China in [...]

John Bush films to premiere at RMA

Tomorrow night at the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC the filmmaker John Bush (Vajra Sky Over Tibet) will be premiering two new dance films, Absence Presence and Dream On Me, featuring the choreography of Nadine Helstroffer. This screening will include a discussion and Q & A with Bush, Helstroffer, and Buddhist Psychotherapist Michael Vincent [...]

China warns Obama on Dalai Lama meeting

It’s bad enough that U.S. companies went ahead and sold arms to Taiwan (drawing the threat of sanction from an offended China) but now President Obama plans to meet with China’s biggest bête noire, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. (His failure to do so previously raised some eyebrows among Tibet-watchers around the globe.) Relations between China [...]

Finding Silence

I am busy from early in the morning until late at night. I am rarely alone. Where can I find a time and place to contemplate in silence? Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn’t mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. [...]

Gelek Rimpoche on the Four Noble Truths

Tricycle’s first online video retreat is less than two weeks away! On February 1st at 10am we will be posting the first of eight talks by Gelek Rimpoche on The Four Noble Truths. One new talk will be added each week and will begin with a Q & A session in which Rimpoche will answer the [...]

The Joy of Equanimity

Equanimity is of tremendous importance both in the practice and in everyday life. Generally we get either swept away by pleasant and enticing objects, or worked up into a great state of agitation when confronted by unpleasant, undesirable objects. This wild alternation of contraries is nearly universal among human beings. When we lack the ability [...]

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