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Pema Chödrön and William Alexander in two new discussions on the Tricycle Community
The Tricycle Book Club will be discussing Pema Chödrön's latest book, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears. William Alexander discusses Buddhism and Addiction in the discussion, "We Are All Addicts." Alexander is the author of several books about attachment and addiction, including Cool Water, and More » -
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Haiku Corner
The Tricycle Community Poetry Club is pleased to present our new Haiku Corner, led by Gary Gach, haiku teacher and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism. You can read and comment on others efforts, offer your own haiku, or get guidance from Gary and the others there. You need to be a member of the Tricycle Community to visit, but it's easy to sign up, and best of all it's free. More » -
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More tools to navigate your way through the rich world of Tibetan art
Yesterday I linked to a page that shows you how to identify and understand the deities of the Tibetan pantheon. More » -
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Harnessing Anger at the Checkout Line
Last Sunday, Tricycle Community member and magazine contributor Rev. Danny Fisher blogged about a recent unnerving experience in the checkout line of a grocery store. What could have been simply an unpleasant encounter turned into a larger learning experience when Fisher reflected on his own retaliatory response after being provoked by a rude customer. Fisher writes: As I left the store, I wondered about my reaction. What else, if anything, should I have done? Should I have said something more directly? Was there any virue in my snarky response, or was it just snark, plain and simple? Eventually, I found myself thinking about anger and Buddhism, and I remembered a teaching of Lama Surya Das' that I read once: Ultimately, I believe that anger is just an emotion. More » -
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Michael Pollan at Elephant Journal
We've just finished a two-week teaching with Dr. Jan Chozen Bays on Mindful Eating and we've followed up with a podcast featuring an exercise Dr. Bays developed to examine the "seven kinds of hunger" (you'll need food in front of you to participate in this exercise). But beyond our own subjective experience of eating and hunger, sustainability and social impact are not to be overlooked, so we're taking cues from Elephant Journal's ever Buddhist, ever green Waylon Lewis. More » -
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Awake At Work
Nothing seems certain in these shaky times. Michael Carroll, author of Awake at Work and an article in the Summer 2009 Tricycle, "Bringing Spiritual Confidence to the Workplace," writes this in a new discussion at the Tricycle Community: In 1998, after 10 years working for a major publishing firm, I was laid off. Our company had been acquired and I, along with many other executives, was displaced and invited to leave. We were all treated well at our departure and I, for one, left with few hard feelings. More »
