Tricycle

“Whatever your difficulties—a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness—you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. In fact, the two things that you are always free to do—despite your circumstances—are to be present and to be willing to love.” —Jack Kornfield http://tricy.cl/1n2DKTc     (Image by Calsidyrose)

Judith L. Lief http://tricy.cl/1n2KkJf

“Like an umbrella, a mind is only useful when it is open. The first step toward maintaining an open mind is to understand the nature of mind or self.” —Gerry Shishin Wick Sensei http://tricy.cl/1ps9zoW 

“It is not by preaching or expounding the sutras (scriptures) that you fulfill the task of awakening others to self-realization; it is rather by the way you walk, the way you stand, the way you sit and the way you see things.” —Thich Nhat Hanh http://tricy.cl/1RNCiCE (Photo by Paul Davis)

“As we inhabit our body with increasing sensitivity, we learn its unspoken language and patterns, which gives us tremendous freedom to make choices. The practice of cutting thoughts and dispersing negative repetitive patterns can be simplified by attending to the patterns in the body first, before they begin to be spun around in the mind.” —Jill Satterfield http://tricy.cl/1n1ctAu

“Metta practice is the cultivation of our capacity for lovingkindness. It does not involve either positive thinking or the imposition of an artificial positive attitude ... Rather, we meditate on our good intentions, however weak or strong they may be, and water the seeds of these intentions.” —Barry Magid http://tricy.cl/1kQHrr1 

“Getting honest is a process. The innate intellectual dishonesty of labeling things and then reacting to our labels hides in plain sight, and it takes a trained eye to see it for what it is.” —Rolf Gates http://tricy.cl/1MARwsL

“To practice the dharma is to look into the content of one’s life in a very deep way. To do this, one must be able to discern between one’s strengths and one’s shortcomings.” —Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa http://tricy.cl/1kTPrYd    

Sharon Salzberg, “Sitting on the Fence” 

Robert Aitken Roshi, “The Teacher is Everything” 

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, “Taking Your Future into Your Own Hands”

Why a Buddhist movement (and a political party it created) supported laws that led to the biggest expansion of Japan's military role since the end of World War II. http://tricy.cl/1lMSeIO

Joseph Goldstein, “One Dharma” 

Bernie Glassman

“The Mindful Revolution” is Tricycle Film Club’s latest pick, and examines the role of meditation in the business world. http://tricy.cl/191jCru

Francesca Fremantle

“Becoming intimate with the queasy feeling of being in the middle of nowhere only makes our hearts more tender ... By not knowing, not hoping to know, and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.” —Pema Chodron  [Photo: cello8]