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Stephen Batchelor's Tricycle Retreat, Week 2
Here's a new video from Stephen Batchelor's Tricycle Retreat, "Buddhism for This One and Only Life." This clip is from Week 2's teaching, "Embracing Suffering." Stephen Batchelor's retreat is More » -
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Stephen Batchelor's Tricycle Retreat, Week 1
Stephen Batchelor's Tricycle Retreat, "Buddhism for This One and Only Life," is nearing the end of its first week. It's not too late to become a Tricycle Community Sustaining Member and join the retreat, however! Here's a sample of his Week 1 video so you can see what he's getting at. More » -
Tricycle Pilgrimage to Bhutan
Tricycle Pilgrimage to Bhutan Tricycle Foundation is pleased to announce its first annual pilgrimage to Bhutan, beginning in Bangkok on February 24 through March 8, 2010. A maximum of 20 pilgrims accompanied by leading Bhutanese Buddhist teachers will attend a traditional dance festival; visit temples and monasteries where Guru Rinpoche and other Buddhist saints meditated; witness the winter gathering of the endangered Black Necked Crane; and meet dynamic government and non-profit leaders. More » -
Do people really want to be happy?
In his Guardian review of Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing, a critique of the failures of the free market, political philosopher John Gray doesn't seem to have much hope for Buddhism as a cure for bubble economies. It'd help, he says, if enough people would give up their wants, but he doubts that's about to happen any time soon. If, as the Dalai Lama says, everyone is looking for happiness, they might try giving up the endless pursuit of pleasure and find it. But Gray poses a leading question: Do people really want to be happy? He writes: Oscar Wilde may have been right that people know the price of everything and the value of nothing, a remark [Raj] Patel cites at the start of his book, and which gives him its title. But what is value if it is not price? More » -
NASCAR Buddhism
You don't normally think of Buddhists as NASCAR fans, but why not? Arlynda Boyer, a lifelong NASCAR aficionado, has been practicing Buddhism for past 15 years. She tells Auto Racing Daily ("Where you get your auto racing news") that she sees plenty of similarities between the Buddha's teachings and the NASCAR lifestyle—both NASCAR drivers and Buddhists, she says, "have to live in the moment." She's even written a book about it: Buddha on the Backstretch: The Spiritual Wisdom of Driving 200mph. If that's a little fast for you, though, you can take a few tips from Paul Conrad, a truck driver who gives us Buddhist rules for the road. More » -
AARP sees it both ways
AARP took a break from the health-care debate to offer us an impassioned palindrome—of sorts. Take a look. More »
