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    What are you holding onto? Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 10 Mar 2011
    It's been a good week at Pamela Gayle White and Khedrub Zangmo's "Letting Go" retreat. You can watch the two videos that make up Week 1 here—the second video is meditation instructions.) One of the best features of Tricycle Retreats is the direct access they offer to teachers, and the discussions that follow the teachings reflect this. In this week's discussion, one commenter writes: What really strikes me about your presentation here, apart from its loveliness and deep sense of peacefulness and tranquility, is how you seem to be applying what one learns on the meditation cushion to our daily lives. You are teaching us here practical measures for integrating the message of the Buddha into the next moment and the one after it and the one after that, how to live like a Buddha every day and everywhere, in all situations. Thank you. More »
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    The Buddha of the future will have six-pack abs Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 04 Mar 2011
    As Chade-Meng Tan points out in his lastest blog post, enlightenment can look good. At least, that's what this first century Gandharan representation of Maitreya, the future Buddha, seems to indicate. Look at those abs! Meng writes: More »
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    What kind of Buddhist iPhone app do you want? Paid Member

    Posted by James Shaheen on 03 Mar 2011
    For the past few years our Daily Dharma recipients have been clamoring for a Daily Dharma iPhone app; others ask when we'll be coming out with Tricycle for the iPad  (very expensive, and unlike Wired, we're not likely to get Adobe to help us out here). More »
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    Buddha at Wat Si Saket, Vientiane Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 01 Mar 2011
    This Buddha is speaking to me today. From the Flickr stream of Hanoi Mark. More »
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    The Weather is Just the Weather: Birth of a Tricycle Article Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 23 Feb 2011
    In late September 2010 I traveled by train to Cambridge, Massachusetts. As I passed through Rhode Island, bored, tired, hungry—all the small negatives that combined make travel a magical experience—I remembered some snippets of history, King Philip's War, William Blackstone leaving Boston on the back of a bull ("The Puritan court ordered his house burned down"), the birthplace of American industry, and so on, and read about it in fragments and snatches on my cellphone. More »
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    It's not a zero-sum game: Day 17 of the 28 Day Meditation Challenge Paid Member

    Posted by James Shaheen on 17 Feb 2011
    I visited Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche in Boulder on Monday and before that spent some time reading his books. I particularly enjoyed reading about the folly of  jealously in The Light Comes Through: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening Our Natural Intelligence (I highly recommend it). I don't normally think of myself as a jealous person, but reading through the chapter on envy I had to ask myself: Do I always rejoice in others' success? Or do I sometimes feel a twinge of self-judgment? Since we're sitting the 28-day challenge this month, I thought I'd turn to Real Happiness for more guidance. It didn't disappoint—here's what I found: TRY THIS Enough Happiness to Go Around More »