Won Buddhist teacher Venerable Sangsan said, "Go inwards and realize the buddha in your mind, practice the Threefold Practice diligently, realize that all things in the universe are all Buddhas, and make that Buddha offering." Wisdom relayed by Grace Song tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...

"The real question is not only what our actions will bring us later. It is what our actions are turning the mind into now." –Cem Sen #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/cem-...

What Should Ten Years of Buddhist Practice Make Possible?

How the object of our practice can become its own obstacle and the tangible fruits of the brahmaviharas

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In Theravada Buddhism, there are many buddhas across vast spans of time, but only one arises in each world era. Beings who attain awakening through a buddha’s teachings are known as arahants or “worthy ones.” Click the free link below to learn more! tricycle.org/buddhism-the...

Theravada

Theravada, meaning "the way of the elders," is one of the three major schools of Buddhism and one of the oldest surviving Buddhist traditions, tracing its

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In a new podcast episode, Nirosta Steel talks Buddhist pop, Allen Ginsberg, and how Buddhism literally saved his life. tricycle.org/podcast/niro...

Nirosta Steel on Buddhist Pop and the Making of ‘MY SKYSCRAPER’

The 69-year-old pop star talks Arthur Russell, Allen Ginsberg, and how Buddhism literally saved his life.

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"Atammayata" means abstaining from creating more formations in the mind, and embracing the world as it is. This concept promotes a form of happiness that arises from simply allowing. With Jay Michaelson, "Making the Shadow Your Teacher" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...

"You’re already stranded on the desert island, with nothing but old airplane food to subsist on, and no option but to make the best of life with your fellow survivors. Now... what might be some good things to do with your time?" –Oliver Burkeman #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/libe...

It’s Worse than You Think

On the liberation of defeat

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What if instead of jumping right to fatalism, we recognized that we already have the technology and the science to help our planet? Join professor and Buddhist practitioner Leah Stokes on October 7 to learn about how we can actually make a difference. tricycle.org/events/carbo...

From Carbon Footprint to Carbon Wave: An Event with Leah Stokes

Join us on October 7 for a free virtual event on rethinking our approach to the climate with professor Leah Stokes.

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"All that side of life that you call unconscious, unknown, impenetrable is unconscious, unknown, impenetrable because it’s really you. In other words, the deepest you is the nothing side, the side that you don’t know." –Alan Watts #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/alan...

Emptiness and Nothingness

On the generative power of negativity

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this world we live in ten thousand scarecrows on guard and only one bird –Gregory Tullock tricycle.org/magazine/tri...

Scarecrows on Every Side

The winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge offers a chilling portrait of the world we live in now.

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The late multihyphenate musical artist Duncan Sheik died at 56 of heart failure on September 17. He was a practicing Nichiren Buddhist for nearly forty years. Read more about Sheik's life and legacy in the piece below. tricycle.org/article/dunc...

The Buddhist Faith of Duncan Sheik

How a dedicated relationship with Soka Gakkai International shaped the life of the late composer—and fueled the creation of Spring Awakening

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The Buddhist teachings on emptiness may seem complex or scary. Yet to Zen Buddhist priest Norman Fischer, these teachings are friendly and as light as air. With Norman Fischer, "When You Greet Me I Bow: Relationship, Emptiness, Activism" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...

"When difficulties occur, recollect dharma. Think of what your spiritual guides have taught you. They teach you to let go, to have restraint and self-control, to put things down; they teach you to strive in this way to solve your problems." –Ajahn Chah #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/the-...

Practice Like the Four Elements

A venerated teacher from the Thai forest tradition on using the elements to train our minds away from its habitual responses.

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“A dharma instrument and a great sound system can give you the same kind of feeling.” –Howie Lee tricycle.org/article/howi...

At the Drolma Wesel​-​Ling Monastery

Beijing-based electronic musician Howie Lee recorded his latest album at a remote monastery in the mountains of northeastern Tibet. In the years that followed, his artistic philosophy would take a…

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Check out what we’re plugged into! In the latest issue, we highlight two dharma talks, a lecture, and a guided meditation to enhance your Buddhist practice. tricycle.org/magazine/wha...

What We’re Plugged Into

Two dharma talks, a lecture, and a guided meditation to enhance your Buddhist practice

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"Being human is an experiment and always has been. The Buddha’s teachings show us how we might live that experiment in the clearest and most compassionate way." –Santacitta Bhikkhuni #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/slow...

Slow Down, Take Your Seat

A meditation practice for relaxing into your experience and being with things as they are

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Sutra reading goes back hundreds, if not thousands, of years, but it has fallen out of fashion. Learn how to read the Diamond Sutra aloud in the piece below. tricycle.org/magazine/ken...

Notes on Reading Sutras Aloud

In a new translation of the Diamond Sutra, Ken McLeod encourages us to do what has been done for over a thousand years—read the sutra as practice.

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On September 29, join three Buddhist teachers and scholars for a conversation exploring emptiness through Zen, Tibetan, and Theravada perspectives. Sign up now using the link below! tricycle.org/events/empti...

Connect with your bodhicitta, the intention to help all beings, and find the courage to live the bodhisattva’s path in a 28-day meditation program with Mingyur Rinpoche. Click the link below to learn more. tricycle.org/events/bodhi...

The Bodhisattva’s Path of Meditation Program

Join a 28-day meditation program with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to learn about the path of the bodhisattva and cultivating compassion for all.

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We call it meditation 'practice' for a reason—we aren't striving to be extraordinary meditators. We are practicing to bring about peace and compassion in our lives and the world at large. With Willa Blythe Baker, "The Art of Somatic Mindfulness" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...

"It’s much easier to move toward the comfort of a conclusion than to sustain uncertainty. But there’s something worth pursuing in refusing conclusion." –Katie Kitamura #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/on-u...

On Uncertainty, Midlife, and the Beauty of Boredom

Ann Tashi Slater talks with author Katie Kitamura about detaching from productivity, Proust, and the often-overlooked importance of staring out the window.

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"Turning toward grief requires trust—trust that eventually you will emerge on the other side, where life after loss will become the new normal and the emotions of grief will settle down. Just as there is no road map for grief, there is no timeline." –Roy Remer tricycle.org/magazine/min...

"How strange. The intoxicants I had mistaken for happiness were revealed as the source of my suffering, while abstinence, once feared as suffering, became the source of true happiness." –Peter Kuhn Click the link below to read the free piece. tricycle.org/article/pete...

"We must learn the difference between the ease of getting our way and the ease that comes with wisdom." –Tuere Sala #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/stop...

Stop Fixing, Start Practicing

Problem-solving can take us far, but sincere practice takes us the extra mile.

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From tranquility springs wisdom, and from wisdom arises a transformative understanding that fosters inner freedom. Wisdom from Narayan Helen Liebenson, "The Principles and Practices of Shamatha Vipassana" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...

Join us on Tuesday, October 13 for Thich Nhat Hanh’s 100th continuation day. Scholar Adrienne Minh-Châu Lê, who is currently writing his biography, will tell us about the Zen master’s literary legacy. Sign up for free at the link below. tricycle.org/events/conti...

Virtual Event: Celebrate Thich Nhat Hanh's 100th Continuation Day

In honor of Thich Nhat Hanh's 100th continuation day, learn more about the late Vietnamese Zen master’s literary legacy.

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"We don’t exist substantially or intrinsically or independently, but our existence, like the existence of everything else, is interdependent, conventional, constantly changing." –Jay L. Garfield #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/live...

How to Live Without a Self (and Be a Better Person)

Brief teachings on how to shed the illusion of self and reclaim our humanity

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After the Buddha’s death in the 5th century BCE, the sangha held councils to preserve his teachings. But disagreements over monastic discipline eventually led to the formation of multiple Buddhist traditions. Learn more for free at the link below! tricycle.org/buddhism-the...

Theravada

Theravada, meaning "the way of the elders," is one of the three major schools of Buddhism and one of the oldest surviving Buddhist traditions, tracing its

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"Local ritual customs help shape a community’s identity and instill a sense of belonging. Even brief gestures can reorient the practitioner to the sacred and help settle the body and mind." –Zim Pickens and @fmr-h.bsky.social #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/budd...

From the Academy: Ritual

Innovation and tradition in Buddhist ritual

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In the “Land of a Thousand Islands” there are 1,750 Buddhists and 7 Tricycle subscribers. Learn more in the piece below! tricycle.org/magazine/bud...

Buddhism By the Numbers: Croatia

Buddhist statistics from the "Land of a Thousand Islands"

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The late bell hooks said that "the most basic form of activism that we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasy." Wisdom relayed by Devin Berry, "Metta and Karuna: Two Heart Practices to Cultivate in Meditation and Daily Life" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...