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    Buddha Buzz: A Dog is a Pig is a Bear is a Boy Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 29 Jun 2012
    We're tackling the big issues in Buddha Buzz today: capitalism, vegetarianism, and Buddhist business.  In an article reminiscent of Tricycle's own "Occupy Buddhism: Or Why the Dalai Lama is a Marxist", GOOD magazine's Kira Goldenberg examines Western yoga's relationship to capitalism in "Bad Karma: Can Yoga and Capitalism Get Along?" The short answer to the title is no—not really—if you care about keeping the tenets of yoga intact. Goldenberg begins the piece, More »
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    Occupy Sravasti: How Buddhism Inspires Me to Occupy Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 09 Apr 2012
    This guest blog post comes our way from Joshua Eaton, an editor, writer and translator. Eaton holds an M Div in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University. His most recent piece for tricycle.com is "Making Buddhism accessible to working-class people." Occupy Sravasti: How Buddhism Inspires Me to Occupy By Joshua Eaton More »
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    Mindful Eating: You Saw It Here First Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 08 Feb 2012
    Mindful eating has hit the New York Times! One of our sharp-eyed editors spied this article yesterday in the Dining and Wine section of the Gray Lady: "Mindful Eating as Food for Thought." In it, Jeff Gordinier writes about his visit to the Blue Cliff Monastery in Pine Bush, N.Y., where he participated in a silent, vegan, mindfully-eaten lunch, something he found to be "captivating and mysterious." (Afterward, he tweeted, "& yeah I tried this mindful eating thing @ the monastery. Very cool. But not easy. Even putting my fork down was hard!") But it's not just the New York Times who has trumpeted mindful eating. As Gordinier says in the article, More »
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    Tricycle Talks: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 16 Jan 2012
    Listen to Tricycle's Sam Mowe speak with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche about his new book Tibetan Yogas of Body, Speech, and Mind, which we're currently reading at the Tricycle Book Club. Topics include: What is the relationship between body, speech, and mind? How do these three "doors" serve as entrances and exits to the spiritual path? How does identifying where our pain is help us to transcend it? Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute. Recognized as one of the few Bön masters now living in the West, he is known for his clear, engaging style and his ability to bring the ancient Tibetan teachings into a contemporary format that is relevant for Westerners. More »
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    Buddha Buzz: Mindfulness for Doctors, Meditation's Downfalls, and the Avian Flu Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 16 Dec 2011
    A sobering article out of the NY Times this week called “As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows.” From the article: Hospitals and doctors’ offices, hoping to curb medical error, have invested heavily to put computers, smartphones and other devices into the hands of medical staff for instant access to patient data, drug information and case studies. More »
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    Buddha Buzz: Black Friday, Gray Mice, and White Wives Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 25 Nov 2011
    Black Friday is upon us. And as we've come to expect with the arrival of our favorite American holiday, there have been huge sales, massive crowds, and the trampling of workers and pregnant women. Actually, those tramplings occurred three years ago. This year, the American public has moved on to a more popular method of violence: pepper spray. An unidentified woman at a Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch, California, pepper sprayed other customers in an attempt to keep them away from the merchandise she wanted. One wonders if she had been inspired by the UC Davis cop. More »