economy

Buddha Buzz: Teacher Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street

As Occupy Wall Street stretches over the one-month mark, Buddhists from around the blogosphere have been sharing their thoughts about it, and in quite a few cases, participating in the “occupation.” These Buddhist voices at Occupy…

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Oct 20, 2011

Shinnyo-en’s Eye-Opening Ceremony

On October 15th at the Oyasono temple complex outside Tokyo, the Japanese lay Buddhist group Shinnyo-en celebrated an “eye-opening ceremony” for a Buddha statue sculpted in 1957 by their founder, Master Shinjo Ito. Huffington Post has…

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Oct 19, 2011

Buddha Buzz

Buddha Buzz: An Inglorious Columbus and a Royal Buddhist Wedding

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Then he landed in the Bahamas and proceeded to enslave and massacre the local people. Despite Columbus’ well-documented reign of cruelty and violence, Columbus Day is still celebrated as…

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Oct 13, 2011

Books

Discussing Buddha Standard Time with Lama Surya Das

We’re discussing the new book Buddha Standard Time with author and Dzoghcen teacher Lama Surya Das at the Tricycle Book Club for the month of October. Have a question? Ask it here! In the discussion, Lama…

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Oct 13, 2011

Focusing for Meditators Week 2

It’s the second week of David Rome’s Tricycle Retreat on Focusing for Meditators. This week’s teaching is called Welcoming the Felt Sense: Dropping the Storyline. Watch a preview of this teaching below. One retreat participant asks:…

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Oct 13, 2011

Focusing for Meditators Week 1

David Rome’s Tricycle Retreat, Focusing for Meditators, has brought together a wide and diverse international audience. Questioners from Italy and the UK are discussing th practice of focusing with David. One questioner asks: Wonderful stuff. Can…

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Oct 07, 2011

Larry Rosenberg’s Tricycle Retreat: Discouraged People

A participant in Larry Rosenberg’s Tricycle Retreat comments: You make so many things that we hear about move from the abstract to “real” in the sense that now I can truly understand and can use that…

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Oct 21, 2010

Labor Day Special: The disease of capitalism?

In an August 26 post, I noted 5 recent comments from Thich Nhat Hanh on the occasion of his visit to the UK. One of the quotes refers to “the disease of capitalism” (Thay’s words), and…

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Sep 06, 2010