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Did David Foster Wallace Meditate?
Sometimes I like to imagine David Foster Wallace meditating. It seems like maybe Zen or Vipassana might have been the perfect venue for the writer to explore, if not release, the pressure that clearly built up in his head. In his fiction, the protagonists are always thinking, thinking about thinking, and it’s footnotes all the way down. I would like to believe that he tried sitting. Anybody who has read his commencement address at Kenyon College, in 2005, knows that he was a Buddha ancestor. From that speech: More » -
se necesita un ser realizado
We were recently asked permission to have a Tricycle article translated and published in Spanish. Here's what it looks like. It's Tai Situpa Rinpoche's "It Takes a Saint," and it appears in the most recent edition of Cuadernos de budismo, a quarterly magazine based in Spain. We are especially fond of the young man meditating in a suit. Read the piece in English here. More » -
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Hang on to your Tricycle
The sharp-eyed Frank Olinsky—Tricycle's first designer and now a contributing editor—often sends us photos from around his Brooklyn neighborhood that he thinks we'll like. (You may remember his "Discount Buddha," which some failed to find amusing.) What do you think his latest photo is saying? More » -
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Getting something out of your Zen practice
A "Bodhi cartoon" by artist Brian Howlett. More » -
Survey on Perceptions of Monasticism within Buddhism
via Jennifer Harris, Hi! Working toward my PhD in community psychology, I’m conducting a survey (one version in English, the other Tibetan) of the perceptions of monasticism within Buddhism. With its spread to the West, Buddhist practitioners in the United States tend mostly to be lay and there are very few monasteries. This study therefore examines the role and relevancy of the monastic tradition within the Western Buddhist cultural community. I will also be posting an exact replica of the survey in the Tibetan language so that I can cross-examine two distinct cultural communities’ perceptions about monasticism. The first version of the survey, which is for Westerners, is available here. Help Jennifer out! More »
