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The General Tendency of Ego
As a student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, I recently attended his yearly sangha retreat at Nalanda West in Seattle, WA. Yearly retreats usually focus on a particular topic. This year’s topic was Mahamudra (Great Seal or Great Symbol), which is an advanced meditation practice and one that I am just embarking upon. However, I left the retreat thinking more of a basic Buddhist doctrine, the teaching on anatman, “no self,” and the related idea of the skandhas, or aggregates, and how clinging to them cause suffering. Why? I don’t know. Perhaps it’s because I was paying too much attention to my own ego, trying to establish my wants and needs. More » -
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The Future is Now
Take a look at a few pages excerpted from the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa's first book for a general audience at the Shambhala Times. Here's how the ST describes The Future is Now: Timely Advice for Creating a Better World: The Future Is Now contains 108 pithy sayings by this remarkable Buddhist teacher, combined with striking contemporary photographs... Each pairing of text and image offers timely advice, densely packed with layers of meaning. Worth the look, you can find it here. More » -
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Marc Lesser: Accomplishing More by Doing Less
Marc Lesser, author of Z.B.A, Zen of Business Administration and Less, is now hosting a discussion at the Tricycle Community. Marc also blogs at doingless.net. He writes: "Our daily incessant busyness - too much to do and not enough time; the pressure to produce a to-do list and tick off items by each day's end - seems to decide the direction and quality of our existence for us. But if we approach our days in a different way, we can consciously change this out-of-control pattern. More » -
Cartwheels in a Sari
Jayanti Tamm (a Tricycle alum) will be reading from and discussing her new memoir Cartwheels in a Sari at the Mercantile Exchange in New York City this Friday, April 17th, at 7 PM. The Mercantile Exchange is located at 17 East 47th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue. Cartwheels in a Sari is the funny and amazing story of Jayanti's upbringing in the inner circle of Sri Chinmoy's ashram in Queens, New York, the painful struggle with her family, the guru, and the other disciples, that ensued when she left, and what it's like to start a new life afterward. More » -
Soren Gordhamer and Wisdom 2.0
Stress-reduction expert Soren Gordhamer has a new book, Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected (available on Amazon.) He writes, and can't we all relate: More »
