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Faith in Technology: Are Buddhism and meditation the same thing?
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 » -
The new Winter 2011 Issue of Tricycle!
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 » -
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 » -
A Right to the Dharma: An interview with Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin, a Nichiren Shu priest
The current issue of Tricycle features an interview with Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin, a Nichiren priest and the resident teacher at Myoken-ji, a temple in Houston, Texas. The daughter of an African American father and a Japanese mother, Myokei Shonin is the first woman of African American and Japanese descent—and the only Western woman—to be ordained as a priest within the worldwide Nichiren Order. (She is also the first female priest in the Nichiren Order of North America.) From "A Right to the Dharma": More » -
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About a poem: "Ochre and Blue" by Chase Twichell
The Fall 2011 issue of Tricycle features a poem by Chase Twichell, "Ochre and Blue." Beneath the poem is commentary from Twichell on how the poem came to be. Beneath the commentary is a button, push it and listen to Twichell read her poem.Ochre and BlueWaking to ochre birch leavessinking in the blue undersea of dawn,I swim in the same currents,needing nothing.Later I'll forget this,and mourn the end of autumn.What's left to be saidabout being human?About “Ochre and Blue” More » -
Restored to Sanity: Week two of of the Green Bodhisattva's Twelve Steps
Last week, we announced that Clark Strand's "Green Bodhisattva" column has moved online. We're going to post each of the Twelve Steps toward ecological sanity on tricycle.com, one every week. If you have questions and comments about any of the steps, please share them. Strand enjoys the online exchange of ideas and inspiration, so there's a good chance that he'll respond to those who are interested. Today we're reviewing the second step. From "Restored to Sanity": More »
