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Whole Life Offering with Sensei Bonnie Myotai Treace

What is It? In this 4-part video teaching, Zen teacher Bonnie Myotai Treace invites you to the Gristmill for a series of subtle koans and a cup of tea. Explore the nature of genuine offering, of attention, and the koan of water as a daily practice. Known for her poetic and innovative presentation of the dharma, Myotai Sensei's encouragment is to make a "whole life offering," moment by moment, to the mill of transformation. Water bowls for practice are available for order, and supplementary reading will be included. (July 2010) Not yet a Sustaining Member? Sign up here.

How to Be Kind (even when you don't want to) with Sharon Salzberg

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How to Be Kind (even when you don’t want to) with Sharon Salzberg

This 3-part audio teaching, Sharon Salzberg, gives you an opportunity to practice kindness in your everyday life—whether you’re feeling kind or not. Insight meditation pioneer Sharon Salzberg has been teaching loving-kindness meditation (metta) for more than three decades. Fundamental to Buddhist teachings, the practice of metta is a path in itself. Guided meditations are included in the talks. Transcripts of talks also included. (Nov. 2009) Not yet a Sustaining Member? Sign up here.

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Suffering is Optional with Gelek Rimpoche

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Suffering is Optional

Did you know that suffering is optional? In this 8-part video teaching, Tibetan master Gelek Rimpoche explains why this is true, how to recognize the causes of suffering, and how to make choices that alleviate it. Interact with Gelek Rimpoche and senior students, who will answer your questions. Written material included. (Feb./Mar. 2010) Not yet a Sustaining Member? Sign up here.

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Green Meditation with Clark Strand

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Green Meditation: Recover Your Natural Balance

Do you get enough sleep? Former Zen monk Clark Strand would probably argue that you don’t—and that people haven’t since the invention of the light bulb. With his 4-part video teaching on "green meditation" Strand takes us back to the way we were meant to sleep and shows us how. Audio Q&A and discussion forum. (Mar. 2010) Not yet a Sustaining Member? Sign up here.

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Stephen Batchelor: Buddhism for This One and Only Life

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Buddhism for This One and Only Life with Stephen Batchelor

In this 4-part video retreat, innovative writer and thinker Stephen Batchelor will explain Buddhist teachings from a secular perspective. Dismissing the notion of future lives, Stephen teaches that the Buddha’s design for living is meant for this one. Written materials will be included. Read the current Tricycle interview with Stephen here. (Apr. 2010) Not yet a Sustaining Member? Sign up here.

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Ken McLeod: The Way of Freedom

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The Way of Freedom with Ken McLeod

Unbidden and unwanted thoughts and feelings consistently cloud our experience of life. Using a classical Tibetan text in this 5-week audio retreat, Ken McLeod will teach us how to cultivate clarity and presence. Ken's decades-long background in Tibetan Buddhist practice enables him to make these ancient teachings accessible and useful in the world we live in today. (May 2010) Not yet a Sustaining Member? Sign up here.

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Martine Batchelor: Breaking Bad Habits

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Breaking Bad Habits with Martine Batchelor

In this 4-part video teaching former Korean Zen nun and author Martine Batchelor will teach a form of Buddhist meditation that helps to break through addictive patterns. Written material for supplementary reading will be included. (June 2010) Not yet a Sustaining Member? Sign up here.

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Bonnie Myotai Treace: Whole Life Offering

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Whole Life Offering with Sensei Bonnie Myotai Treace

What is It? In this 4-part video teaching, Zen teacher Bonnie Myotai Treace invites you to the Gristmill for a series of subtle koans and a cup of tea. Explore the nature of genuine offering, of attention, and the koan of water as a daily practice. Known for her poetic and innovative presentation of the dharma, Myotai Sensei's encouragment is to make a "whole life offering," moment by moment, to the mill of transformation. Water bowls for practice are available for order, and supplementary reading will be included. (July 2010) Not yet a Sustaining Member? Sign up here.

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Summer 2010

Vol. 19, No. 4

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The Fog of World War II

By Nelson Foster and Gary Snyder

In the summer of 1998, Tricycle covered Brian Victoria’s Zen at War, an indictment of the Japanese Zen community’s complicity in Japanese imperialism during the 1930s and 1940s. Among those he harshly criticized was D. T. Suzuki, arguably the most influential figure in bringing Zen Buddhism to the West.
The Way of Freedom

By Ken McLeod

Mahamudra, or “great seal,” is a term used in Vajrayana Buddhism to refer to the mark, or nature, of all experience: emptiness. Mahamudra practice is most commonly associated with the Kagyü tradition of Tibet. What follows is taken from Ken McLeod’s “The Way of Freedom,” a Tricycle Online Retreat, available at tricycle.com.
Totem Animals

By Rick Bass

I often get asked by children what my favorite animal is. Those childhood days of talismanic fervor, and the security to be gotten by holding in one’s heart an emblem of something brave, fierce, powerful, and free—something as invulnerable as the child is vulnerable— seem so long ago as to have occurred in another life.
The Authentic Life

One thing that makes Lewis Richmond so interesting to speak with is that he is a person of so many interests. As a Buddhist teacher, an accomplished musician and composer, an author, a software engineer and entrepreneur, and someone whose curious and agile mind has garnered a great store of all manner of knowledge, he moves easily in conversation among diverse fields of culture and takes obvious enjoyment pursuing the unexpected turn toward wisdom
Shall We Offer Flowers?

By Andrew Schelling

Andrew Schelling's poem "Shall we offer flowers?" is offered here in both text and audio format. To hear the audio, click the link at the bottom of the article.

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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.
Emptiness: All or Nothing

The idea of sunyata (Pali sunnata) or emptiness has been variously understood—and misunderstood—for centuries.

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Church bans yoga

Reading the tabloids is a bad habit I’ve developed this summer. I’ve weaned myself off most of them, though, but I can’t quite quit the British tabloid the Sun (”Got a story? We pay £££”). Today’s edition reports that a Methodist church near Manchester has banished an over-50s yoga group, leaving elderly yogis throwing up [...]

Top 5 Buddhists on Twitter (That You Don’t Follow) 

Before somebody cries foul, let me be clear: you won’t find the Buddhist big-twitters on this list. Everybody knows the Dalai Lama is worth following (or at least, as of this moment, 560,521 tweeps think so). Instead, this list is meant to highlight five Buddhists on Twitter that you might not already know about. The [...]

5 (more) Buddhist iPhone apps

Tuaw.com, “the unofficial apple weblog,” posted a blog today titled “5 apps for the Buddhist,” the newest installment of their ongoing “5 apps for” series. We have reported a few times in the past on Buddhist iPhone apps and we very highly recommend the free Access to Insight app (a mobile version of the Access [...]

Hundreds Protest Buddha Bar

A protest in Jakarta, Indonesia, against a local branch of the French-owned chain restaurant Buddha Bar became chaotic today when protesters damaged the restaurant and nearby public facilities. Over 300 Indonesian Buddhists showed up for the protest, which was organized by the Anti-Buddha Bar Forum (FABB). The crowd gathered in white t-shirts to protest the [...]

Amid turmoil, Pakistan reaches out to Buddhist tourists

The Guardian’s Riazat Butt calls it a case of fiddling while Rome burns: Pakistan reaches out to Buddhists amid allegations that its intelligence service is actively aiding the Taliban while putatively aiding US/Coalition forces in Afghanistan. (The war is of course taking place on Pakistani soil as well, the border region being so nebulous and [...]

Thin Places

Today’s Daily Dharma: There is a term in the Celtic tradition that I find resonates with something fundamental about Zen practice. The Celts spoke of “thin places,” places like caves or wells or other special sites where the boundary between the mundane and magical was permeable. To me, Zen practice offers a [...]