Pilgrimages to sacred Buddhist sites led by experienced Dharma teachers. Includes daily teachings and group meditation sessions. A local English–speaking guide accompanies and assists.
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Part 3 of Buddhist History for Buddhist Practitioners: An Interview with Jacqueline Stone
At the Tricycle Community we're beginning part 3 of our "Buddhist History for Buddhist Practitioners" series. This time we'll be discussing an interview with Princeton's Jacqueline Stone about the place of the Lotus Sutra in Buddhist history. More » -
Toni Bernhard reads from her new book
The Tricycle Book Club is currently reading How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers by Toni Bernhard (Wisdom Publications, 2010, $15.95 paper, available in all e-book formats). More » -
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How to Be Sick by Toni Bernhard
The Tricycle Book Club is currently reading How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers by Toni Bernhard (Wisdom Publications, 2010, $15.95 paper, available in all e-book formats). Foreword by Sylvia Boorstein. Join us here from October 18-29 to discuss the book with the author (sign up is free and easy). From the last chapter of How to Be Sick: The Buddha inspires me because he never claimed to be anything more than a human being. More » -
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Buddhist History for Buddhist Practitioners Part 2: History and Authority
At the Tricycle Community, we're hosting a discussion on Andrew Cooper's Tricycle article "History and Authority." (This was the working title of the article that was published as "What the Buddha Taught?") We've posted quite a few controversial articles in our day, and this one really hits a lot of key points to make the serious practitioner think about his or her tradition. Cooper writes that though we tend to think of religions being eternal and unchanging, the opposite is true: History shows that religions constantly reinvent themselves as they move forward through time, perhaps never more so then when they believe themselves to be returning to their roots in the past. More » -
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The Power of an Open Question - The Big Bang
From within the fluid and ineffable state of boundarylessness, the knowing mind experiences a stirring . . . a discomfort of sorts. Somehow it's not enough to just rest in the boundaryless nature of this discomfort. The knower of this discomfort then acts, and leaves the open state to become the doer, or "subject." And what do subjects do? They define, seduce, wrestle with, and push away objects. And this dynamic exchange between subject and object creates a whole lot of friction and heat, which activates a big bang of sorts . . . And the whole world of objectification bursts into action. More » -
The World is Made of Stories: To Understand is to Story
The September Tricycle Book Club is underway, and we're discussing David Loy's The World is Made of Stories. Join the conversation here (sign up is free and easy!). From the first chapter of The World is Made of Stories: If the world is made of stories, stories are not just stories. They teach us what is real, what is valuable, and what is possible. Without stories there is no way to engage with the world because there is no world, and no one to engage with it because there is no self. The world is made of our accounts of it because we never grasp the world as it is in itself, apart from stories about it. More »
