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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Taming the Mind: Ancient Pali texts liken meditation to the process of taming a wild elephant. http://3.ly/4B1
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Ancient Pali texts liken meditation to the process of taming a wild elephant. The procedure in those days was to tie a newly captured animal to a post with a good strong rope. When you do this, the elephant is not happy. ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review What is the difference between fantasy and imagination?
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Imagination draws its energy from a confrontation with desire. It feeds off desire, transmuting and magnifying reality through desire’s power. Fantasy does the opposite; it avoids desire by fleeing into a crude sort of wish-fulfillment that seems much safer. ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review There aren’t that many fundamental, or root, principles of dharma. The Buddha said that his teaching is “a single handful.”
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There aren’t that many fundamental, or root, principles of dharma. The Buddha said that his teaching is “a single handful.” A passage in the Samyutta-nikaya makes that clear. While walking through the ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review The joy of effort in meditation
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While it’s true that both repetition and relaxation can bring results in meditation, when either is pursued to the exclusion of the other, it leads to a dead end. If, however, you can integrate them both ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Karmapa to give a TED talk
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This weekend the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, will join the ranks of previous TED speakers Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Jane Goodall when he presents at this year’s TED conference. The ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review U.S. Army's first Buddhist chaplain sent to Iraq http://3.ly/GLJ
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Fox News reports that the first Buddhist Chaplain in the history of the United States Army will be deployed to Iraq in December. Chaplain Thomas Dyer, who used to be a Southern Baptist minister, feels that his diverse religious background will help make Christian U.S. ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Although cloudspotting is an activity best undertaken with time on your
hands, it is something that everyone can enjoy.
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Although cloudspotting is an activity best undertaken with time on your hands, it is something that everyone can enjoy. Clouds are the most egalitarian of nature’s displays, since each one of us has a good view of them, so it really doesn’t matter where you are. ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Holding to an ordinary notion of self, or ego, is the source of all our pain and confusion. http://3.ly/zOR
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Holding to an ordinary notion of self, or ego, is the source of all our pain and confusion. The irony is that when we look for this “self” that we’re cherishing and protecting, we can’t even find it.
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review What is the test of truth? The Buddha offers a simple formula: Test things in terms of cause and effect.
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What is the test of truth? The Buddha offers a simple formula: Test things in terms of cause and effect. Whatever is unskillful, leading to harm and ill, should be abandoned; whatever is skillful, leading to happiness and peace, should be pursued. ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review A popular misconception about Buddhism is that it denies the existence of a self. Not true. There is a self, it's just not as real as we think it is. Watch Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein explain it all on an ABC News NOW segment: http://3.ly/GaE
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If a basic principle in Buddhism is non-self (anatta), is it incompatible with psychotherapy, which seems to be all about finding and understanding the self? The question is a little misguided, and in ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review There is no such thing as a bad meditation. Even during the bad ones, we build up strength. http://3.ly/bDi
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The mind can do wonderful and unexpected things. Meditators who are having a difficult time achieving a peaceful state of mind sometimes start thinking, “Here we go again, another hour of frustration.” ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Buddhist Relics: Real or pretend?
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I HAVE A TYPICALLY Protestant take on relics: I'm skeptical. I mean, how many pieces of the true cross can there be? I had come to Bodh Gaya, India, scene of the Buddha's enlightenment, for the Kalachakra initiation given by the Dalai Lama in 2003. ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review We all know what it’s like to get trapped in dark, constricting states of mind—and how useless it is to dwell there. http://3.ly/1Aa
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We all know what it’s like to get trapped in dark, constricting states of mind—and how useless it is, in terms of awakening, to dwell there. That is exactly what the Buddha taught: we don’t need to stay stuck in greed, hatred, and delusion. ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review The spiritual journey is a journey of detachment, a process of learning how to let go. http://3.ly/nlb
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The spiritual journey, then, is a journey of detachment, a process of learning how to let go. All of our problems, miseries, and unhappiness are caused by fixation—latching onto things and not being able to release them. ...
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Mindfulness means seeing ourselves as we are. http://3.ly/yLM
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In a state of mindfulness, you see yourself exactly as you are. You see your own selfish behavlor. You see your own suffering. And you see how you create that suffering. You see how you hurt others. You ...
