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Video: Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi supports Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Faith NYC is a coalition of over 100 religious leaders from around New York that support the Occupy Wall Street movement. Last night they held a press conference at Judson Memorial Church near Washington Square to announce that five churches will open their doors for dislocated occupiers following the police raid at Zuccotti Park.Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, a Theravada Buddhist monk and member of Occupy Faith, delivered an eloquent endorsement of the Occupy movement. Here's a short clip of his speech, in which he compares our current global situation to a man driving a car towards a cliff.For more read Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi's "The Need of the Hour" from the Fall 2011 issue of Tricycle. More » -
Meditators Arrested at Occupy Oakland
This striking photo, taken by D. Scot Miller at the Occupy Oakland police crackdown on Monday, speaks for itself. It was noticed by Tricycle staff making the rounds on Facebook. Further information and photos are available at Wildmind Meditation News. More » -
Buddha Buzz: An Inglorious Columbus and a Royal Buddhist Wedding
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Then he landed in the Bahamas and proceeded to enslave and massacre the local people. Despite Columbus' well-documented reign of cruelty and violence, Columbus Day is still celebrated as a federal holiday in most parts of the United States (kudos to such places as South Dakota, which celebrates Native American Day instead, and Santa Cruz, California, which celebrates Indigenous People's Day). As we know, Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas—that distinction belongs to Leif Ericson. But did you know that there's a theory—first proposed by French sinologist M. De Guignes in 1761—that argues that Chinese Buddhist monks may have been the first travelers from the Old World to the New, reaching Mexico in A.D. 499? More » -
Buddha Buzz: Steve Jobs's Death and Dharma
"The moments of our life are not expendable,And the [possible] circumstances of death are beyond imaginationIf you do not achieve an undaunted confident security now,What point is there in your being alive, O living creature?" —Padmasambhava, from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. “Almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” —Steve Jobs’s Stanford Commencement Address. More » -
Best Spiritual Writing 2012
Two articles from Tricycle, Noa Jones's "Where the Buddha Woke Up" and features editor Andrew Cooper's "The Debacle," were just published in the Penguin anthology The Best Spiritual Writing 2012. The anthology also contains an article by Tricycle contributing editor Pico Iyer from Portland magazine. Since the Jewish High Holy Days are upon us, we thought we'd include here the opening section from "The Debacle," a uniquely Jewish start to a Buddhist essay. More » -
Buddha Buzz: Buddhism & Interfaith Dialogue
The September 12 issue of The New Yorker features T.K. Nakagaki, a Japanese monk and former abbot of the New York Buddhist Church, and his work organizing a floating 9/11 lantern ceremony on the Hudson River. The article takes a look at interfaith dialogue in light of 9/11-commemoration gatherings. After Rudy Giuliani failed to invite a single Buddhist to a prayer event at Yankee Stadium that included all other major faiths of NYC, Nakagaki convinced the city's Buddhist Council to make some noise about the omission. From "All Together Now": More »
