Thank you to our donors who help us work toward our mission of making Buddhist teachings available to all. This year, anyone who donates $30 or more will receive a free video teaching on the practice of equanimity. Donate today!

Click the link below for five poems by Tony Koji Wallin-Sato inspired by the Zen tradition of death haikus.

Tricycle's editors are reading books on Japanese poetry, transforming our emotions, and koan practice in everyday life. Click the link below to see what books have caught their attention lately.

How does Buddhism grapple with Santa Claus? Writer Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar explores the delicate balance between truthfulness and holiday magic—asking whether it’s okay to tell a well-intentioned lie in the spirit of Santa.

"When we act from a perception of others’ evil, we evoke the evil in them. When we act from a perception of others’ dignity and positive potential, we reinforce that in them." –Lama John Makransky and Paul Condon #DailyDharma tricycle.org/magazine/act...

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Right speech is a core pillar of Buddhist practice. In our latest issue, Sensei Dhara Kowal writes, “Our speech has the potential to foster mutually supportive and nurturing relationships, but it can also advance our self-interest and sow division.” Click the link below to learn more.

It can be grounding to consider how you’d like to show up and the ways you might handle common problems, from miscommunication to stress, before you’re tossed into the fire of family gatherings. These five teachings offer ways to do just that.

"Locating safety doesn’t mean avoiding the world’s problems. It means meeting them from a place where our choices are not hijacked by fear." –Kathy Cherry and Josh Korda #DailyDharma

"Due to our past conditioning, many of us do not trust our capacity to love." This includes loving & accepting ourselves. For abuse & neglect survivors, self-compassion is the antidote to trauma-driven shame & self-cruelty. ❤️‍🩹 🙏 @tricyclemag.bsky.social 🙏 #cptsd

Honored that TRAVELING IN BARDO is in such beautiful company! Thank you, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. @tricyclemag.bsky.social Read the article here: tricycle.org/article/favo... #travelinginbardo #impermanence #nonfictionbooks #BestOfTheYear

This month’s film offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most talked-about and controversial Buddhist institutions in Thailand. Watch the film at the link below.

Over the years, we’ve heard that Tricycle readers are looking for a place to connect—to converse, share recommendations, and exchange ideas. We’re launching a Substack to offer just that. Explore our Substack at the link below!

Get to know the teacher behind this year’s Meditation Month, Haemin Sunim, in this Q&A! In January, Haemin will guide us in realizing our true nature through Zen koan meditation.

"For me, solitude is not loneliness, but a space where I can be fully aware of the myriad ways that all things, myself included, are connected." –Lauren Krauze

“There must be some way to integrate death into living, neither ignoring it or giving into it.” – Audre Lorde

"When you begin to get a real taste of the teachings, glimpse egolessness, and can finally look up from your own suffering to see the suffering of others, it’s time to talk about compassion." –Laurie Fisher Huck #DailyDharma

Start the new year with steady support for your meditation practice. Our free 31-day challenge includes weekly guidance from Korean author and teacher Haemin Sunim and daily inspiration delivered to your inbox. Learn more at the link below!

When Bhuchung D. Sonam left his homeland of Tibet in 1982, he didn’t realize that he would never be able to return. In exile, he turned to writing to express his grief and frustration—and to preserve the idea of his homeland. Learn more at the link below.

"During this time of giving, we should not place too much importance on material gifts; it’s our thoughts, words, and deeds that count. Sincere expressions of appreciation, praise, thanks, and an unexpected helping hand can be the most treasured gifts of all." –Reverend Earl Ikeda

Was the Buddha a historical philosopher or a mythological figure? Find out in the piece below.

"Life lays out the same materials for everyone, and it’s up to us if we want to make misery or a pizza with a touch of surprise." –Wang Ping #DailyDharma

What are the contents of a mobile “corpse kit”? Find out at the link below.

This year, playwright Sarah Ruhl and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg both published their first children's books. Listen to them discuss their books on a new episode of Life As It Is.

“Who am I?” is one of the many questions religions and philosophies attempt to answer, and Buddhism is no exception. Buddhism offers a unique perspective: Ultimately, there is no permanent self at our core. Learn more for free at the link below!

"Without mindfulness, my job living with the uncertain nature of snow would have been impossible." –Jerry Roberts

“The snow falling constantly is the great mystery. The person we live with is the great mystery. There’s nothing that isn’t the great mystery.” –Charlotte Joko Beck

"When we normally look at the present, it is often defined by the past, but it’s better if the present can be defined exclusively by the present itself. That’s what we end up calling “suchness” in Buddhism." –Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi #DailyDharma

Give the gift of the dharma to the young people in your life with fourteen newly released children’s books by authors like the Dalai Lama, Sharon Salzberg, and Sarah Ruhl.

What if awakening is not somewhere far away, but already present in each moment? This year’s Meditation Month invites you to explore this question through Zen koan practice with Haemin Sunim.

"Some people interpret Buddhist teachings on the disadvantages of anger to mean that we’re not supposed to become angry, or are bad and sinful if we do. The Buddha never said this. No judgment is involved." –Thubten Chodron

“Good friends help us see and name what is stuck. But they can do that only when we are willing to reveal these parts to them.” –Kim Allen

"Falling down is what we humans do. If we can acknowledge that fact, judgment softens and we allow the world to be as it is, forgiving ourselves and others for our humanity." –Lin Jensen #DailyDharma

“As I’ve grown older, I have come to recognize that rather than believing I’m a victim of my parents’ struggles, I have the ability to help transform that suffering for them.” –Brother Pháp Hữu

The Buddha says, “As you breathe in, breathe in through the whole body. As you breathe out, breathe out through the whole body.” Learn how in the Dharma Talk below!

These teachings from the Tricycle archives can help us view the holidays as an opportunity to promote compassion in a season of excess and tap into the generosity that is inherent in us all.

In the piece below, psychologist Diana Hill prompts us to get honest with ourselves and start looking at our values in the workplace. Click the link below to read the full piece.

"People are beings, and so are animals and plants, so are stones and clouds, so are postulations and images that appear in dreams. The dharma is phenomena and the world of phenomena." –Robert Aitken #DailyDharma

Experience breath moving through the entire body. Through discovering how to breathe in this way, consciousness is transformed. Learn more at the link below!

✨ New Year, New Practice ✨ Tricycle Meditation Month begins January 1. Join our free 31-day challenge and build a daily practice supported by weekly teachings from Haemin Sunim, daily prompts, and a community of fellow practitioners.

"To be alive in December at your age of 4 or at mine at 76, is to be in full play with mystery and beauty and love." –Dick Allen

"Activism is compassionate, no matter what. It’s because you love something so much that your heart is breaking if you don’t get involved. What happens is that sometimes we forget, because on the flip side of that is anger." –Konda Mason #DailyDharma

In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with scholar Sharon A. Suh to discuss why she describes herself as a “bad Buddhist,” as well as what she’s learned from bell hooks.

“For many of us, our biggest practice is to accept ourselves as we are. The practice of smiling to ourselves can be the deepest practice.” Click below for a free brief teaching from Brother Pháp Hữu and Jo Confino.

“Detachment without warmth is a misunderstanding. True freedom includes compassion; otherwise, it’s just another form of ice.” –Anna Maria Shinnyo Marradi

Vipassana is the quality of mind described in the Pali canon that is essential to develop to escape suffering. Learn more at the link below!

Our new Substack is live! If you subscribe to Tricycle, you already have access. Visit our page and meet fellow readers in weekly chats and discussions.

"In any instruction to rest in awareness, we need to understand that awareness implies recognizing its empty nature as well as its lucid aspect—and not getting attached to emptiness is equally important." –Joseph Goldstein #DailyDharma

Dependent origination is a core Buddhist teaching and arguably the most critical insight from the Buddha’s awakening. Each event, thought, and thing is part of a continuously shifting, infinite web of cause and effect. Learn more for free at the link below!

“When we open the hand of thought, we are the self of the whole dharma world whether we think so or not.” –Kosho Uchiyama Roshi