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    Zen and the Art: How do you balance your practice and your art? Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 29 Mar 2012
    This blog post comes our way from Henry Shukman, a prize-winning poet and novelist. His most recent novel, The Lost City, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. He is also an authorized Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan Zen lineage, and he teaches at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the current issue of Tricycle, Shukman wrote a feature article on the "Zen and the Art" phenomenon. More »
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    The Meaning of Nice: A New Book from Tricycle's Editor at Large Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 05 Jan 2012
    The Meaning of Nice: How Compassion and Civility Can Change Your Life (and the World), a new book from Tricycle's editor at large, Joan Duncan Oliver, takes a closer look at the cliched idea of "nice" as a mild, inoffensive, and rather bland sort of praise. After examining the word through the lenses of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and religion, Oliver concludes that "nice" is, in fact, complex, multifaceted, and less a single quality than a group of qualities that constitute a way of being in the world. Being a "nice" person is taking an approach to life that's grounded in kindness, compassion, integrity, loyalty, generosity, courtesy, respect, and humor. Character, in other words. More »
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    Being Brave, Transforming Our World: Exclusive Tricycle DVD Video Excerpt Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 22 Dec 2011
    Enjoy this excerpt, with Acharya Adam Lobel, from our exclusive Tricycle DVD set. In this video, Adam Lobel speaks about the bravery needed to not only face suffering openly but also to truly celebrate our fleeting human lives. The four-DVD set includes over eight hours worth of talks and guided meditations. The exclusive Tricycle Member price is only $35 with free shipping in the US and Canada. Buy the DVD here, available until January 2nd. More »
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    Faith in Technology: Are Buddhism and meditation the same thing? Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 15 Nov 2011
    If you read just one article in the current issue of Tricycle, make it "Living Buddhism" by Dharmavidya David Brazier.* The author raises serious questions about Buddhist practice in the West. In adopting a technological model of Buddhist practice do we risk isolating meditation techniques from a bigger picture? Are we reinforcing the very isolation and self-absorption that it is the job of Buddhism, and religion in general, to counter? Here's an excerpt from the article: More »
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    The new Winter 2011 Issue of Tricycle! Paid Member

    Posted by Rachel on 10 Nov 2011
    Check out the new issue of Tricycle, now available online. The Winter 2011 magazine includes a special section on Generosity, an interview with Buddhist blogger Brad Warner, three articles by dharma practitioners that don't fit the pervasive Western Buddhist stereotype, a feature by Dharmavidya David Brazier on why mindfulness is more than self-help, and a portfolio of photographs taken by Don Farber at the Kalachakra for World Peace in Washington, D.C..  More »
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    Best Spiritual Writing 2012 Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 27 Sep 2011
    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 »