Maria Heim, editor and translator of How to Feel: An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions, is on the latest episode of the @tricyclemag.bsky.social podcast. Listen here:

Zen Buddhist priest and social activist Roshi Joan Halifax is on a mission to empower women and fight for gender equality in a male-dominated culture. In our Film Club pick for April, a team of healthcare workers delivers free medical care in the most remote regions of the Himalayas.

“If you are dissatisfied with yourself, use it as an incentive to improve and aim higher. If your dissatisfaction is directed at other people, however, recognize that it originates from your own ego.” –Joanna Grochocka Click the free link below to read the rest of this brief teaching.

In honor of World Autism Awareness Day, we're revisiting the experiences of Jane Garratt (Prajnanandi), an ordained member of the Triratna Buddhist Community.

"We’re part of nature, and we’re connected to the earth, to the trees, the air, and all other beings. Please don’t take our word for it—see for yourself if this is true." –Brother Phap Xa and Brother Phap Luu #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/conn...

"If you discover how you oppress yourself, your uncontrolled mind will disappear. Knowing your own mind is the solution to all your problems." –Lama Thubten Yeshe #DailyDharma tricycle.org/magazine/you...

“Both Buddhist meditation practice and the enneagram have this in common: they blossom and empower through the light of awareness without agenda.” –Susan Piver tricycle.org/article/the-...

“Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them." –Martín Prechtel

"You have to get dirty with your emotions. Meditation allows us to feel them, live them, and taste them completely. " –Pema Chödrön

"Karmic causality does not follow a straightforward arithmetic logic, as is often assumed. It is far more intricate and largely beyond ordinary understanding." –Jin Y. Park #DailyDharma

"You have to get dirty with your emotions. Meditation allows us to feel them, live them, and taste them completely." –Pema Chödrön tricycle.org/magazine/med...

Read this excerpt in @tricyclemag.bsky.social of How to Be Caring: An Ancient Guide to a Compassionate Life, edited and translated Jay L. Garfield:

Zen’s ten oxherding pictures show the training of heart and mind. But as Martine Batchelor notes, practice isn’t a straight line. We return to the same stages again and again, each time with more clarity.

"You suffer because of thirst, and you suffer in the act of trying to assuage that thirst. To find the happiness of unbinding, you have to train the mind so that it no longer feels any thirst and no longer needs to feed." –Thānissaro Bhikkhu #DailyDharma

In early Buddhism, some monastics broke the Buddha’s guidelines, prompting him to introduce new regulations. These accumulated over time and were collected in the Vinaya Pitaka, one of the three classic divisions of the Buddhist teachings. Learn more at the link below.

"It is hard to let go of things, harder to let go of ideas, and even harder to let go of spiritual pretensions." –Judy Lief

"Sentience can’t be reduced to the ego; it is, in its essential nature, selflessness, thus capable of all the qualities of awakening such as wisdom and limitless compassion. Sentient beings are therefore admirable." –Karma Trinlay Rinpoche #DailyDharma

Class is in session! Join a community of creatives and write from the place where spiritual work happens. Together we will cultivate an attitude of openheartedness, curiosity, wonder, and fearlessness to confront deep questions and overcome self-censorship. Enroll today to begin!

"Our perceptions and the conclusions we draw from them determine our experience of this life." –Pamela Gayle White

"Regardless of how far we think we’ve strayed or how many times we’ve fallen on the ground, in each and every moment we have the opportunity to use that same ground to stand." –Vanessa Zuisei Goddard #DailyDharma

"Happiness is the sort of thing that you can't chase. By desiring it, it's already outside of you, so you can't demand that you're going to feel happiness." –Maria Heim on the Buddhist psychology of emotion tricycle.org/podcast/mari...

Join the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies for "Liberation: A Dialogue Across Buddhist Traditions," a four-day online program of dharma talks, discussion, guided meditation, and time for conversation. Learn more and register at the link below! www.buddhistinquiry.org/classes/2026...

And all three postures are equally important. Which do you find yourself gravitating towards? ❔ Listen to the Tricycle Talks interview here: tricycle.org/podcast/li-y... @tricyclemag.bsky.social #poetrycommunity

If we study tantra through practice instead of religion, what changes? On March 26 at 1 p.m. ET, scholar Richard K. Payne will explain the history of tantra, common misconceptions, and why it makes more sense to study tantra through the lens of practice, instead of religion.

"Salvaging, restoring, and protecting life is strong medicine too, healing both the protectors and the protected." –Susan Murphy

"Whatever’s inconstant, leave it as inconstant and don’t make it you. Whatever’s stressful, leave it as stressful and don’t make it you. There’s no you in any of those things." –Phra Ajaan Suwat Suvaco #DailyDharma

Did the Buddha think that the four brahmaviharas were enough to achieve nibbana? Find out in the piece below. tricycle.org/article/the-...

An exclusive rerun of our online course with author and Zen teacher Sallie Tisdale starts this week! This course will help you to seek wholeness in self-expression while being supported by expert guide Sallie Tisdale and a like-minded community. Enroll today!

"The stories that we tell ourselves are movies that play in our heads. When we can let go of all of that, that is what brings about our liberation." –Leslie Booker

"The center of the Buddha’s teachings lies not in a grim confrontation with absurdity and futility but in the sublime pleasures of the contemplative path and the liberated mind." –Matthew Gindin #DailyDharma

"Our compassion is not a pie to be divvied up. Having compassion for the animals in the shelter doesn’t take away from the compassion that I have for the children who need food as well." –Sarah Bowen

It’s one thing to meditate, and another to live the practice. Tricycle’s email-based meditation program helps you bring mindfulness and Buddhist wisdom into everyday moments. Click the link below to learn more.

Can a burger be Buddhist? Find out in the piece below.

"So much of our growth on the spiritual path comes not from gaining new knowledge but from remembering what we’ve always known but have forgotten." –John Brehm #DailyDharma

“Brokenness, when it is faced and not turned away from, can become a source of healing and a way forward.” –Ryuko Laura Burges tricycle.org/article/burg...

Are you ready to bring creativity to your path, overcome self-censorship, and share and celebrate your work with like-minded people? If so, join us for a rerun of Writing as a Spiritual Practice with author and Zen teacher Sallie Tisdale!

"Where should we let go to? Let go to emptiness. What is emptiness? Emptiness means all lives changing and manifesting every instant, and functioning together as one." –Daehaeng

Get to know Lin Wang Gordon, cofounder of the Sacred Earth Sangha and founder of the Midlife Sangha at the New York Insight Meditation Center.

"When we can graciously hold the wholeness of a moment without pitting any of the parts against each other—and then relax there—a sacred alchemy occurs." –Justin Michelson #DailyDharma

How far can a Buddhist tradition go in claiming pure dharma? Judith Hertog explores the rise and controversy of the New Kadampa Tradition.

"Discipline is about creating the conditions for a healthy, stable mind. If we are intent on awakening to supreme bliss, we must be aware of and abstain from the conditions and activities that disrupt the mind. It is very logical." –Phakchok Rinpoche #DailyDharma

In uncertain times, practice becomes essential. Subscribe today to receive guided meditation emails rooted in mindfulness and Buddhist wisdom, designed to help you stay present and grounded throughout the day.

"We are not here to slide into despair. Political despair is not useful. We have to acknowledge it, but not hang out in it." –Buddhist journalist Daisy Hernández tricycle.org/podcast/dais...

"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening." —bell hooks

Did you know that the Buddha’s teachings have been preserved and transmitted for over 2,000 years? Learn more for free at the link below.

Starting March 23, author and Zen teacher Sallie Tisdale will lead us in Writing as a Spiritual Practice, a six-week journey of creative spiritual expression. Learn more and enroll at the link below.

"What if we remembered the underlying truth that each of us is always changing, preciously impermanent, and lacking any essential qualities that divide and distinguish us from one another?" –Billy Wynne #DailyDharma

“Our practice asks us to take nice to the next level, to make it inclusive beyond casual greetings and expand our motive from courtesy to empathy and taking care.” –Les Kaye

"Seeing more clearly into how the mind functions tends to shatter some of the meditator’s most cherished beliefs about cognition, consciousness, and the nature of self." –Wes Nisker

Born in Tokyo, Hasui Kawase (1883–1957) dreamed of becoming an artist from a young age. Click the link below to learn about one of the most prolific printmakers of 20th-century Japan.