Tricycle Talks
Tricycle Talks: Listen to Buddhist teachers, writers, and thinkers on life's big questions. Hosted by James Shaheen, editor in chief of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the leading Buddhist magazine in the West. Life As It Is: Join James Shaheen with co-host Sharon Salzberg and learn how to bring Buddhist practice into your everyday life. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review creates award-winning editorial, podcasts, events, and video courses. Unlock access to all this Buddhist knowledge by subscribing to the magazine at tricycle.org/join
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 177
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
How to Lose Yourself with Jay Garfield
No-self is a core teaching across Buddhist traditions. Yet what does it look like to actually live without a self? In How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go, scholars Jay L. Garfield, M…
00:57:09 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
Learning from Silence with Pico Iyer
After his family home burned down in a California wildfire in the 1990s, journalist Pico Iyer found refuge in an unlikely location: a small Benedictine hermitage outside of Big Sur. Though Iyer initi…
00:56:12 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
Embracing Our Limitations and Making Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman is an author and journalist based in northern England. In his new book, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts, he lays out a pr…
00:46:37 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
Everything Is Buddha with Noelle Oxenhandler
Noelle Oxenhandler is a writer and longtime Tricycle contributing editor based in northern California. Recently, she has been thinking a lot about what it means to be ready to die—and what will happe…
00:48:51 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
Finding Joy in Everything We Do with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author based in southern Colorado. In his new book, Diligence: The Joyful Endeavor of the Buddhist Path, he draws from the teachings of the …
00:46:13 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Saraha, Poet of Blissful Awareness with Roger R. Jackson
When Roger R. Jackson was an undergraduate at Wesleyan, he came across the verses of Saraha, a 10th-century mystic known for his fierce exhortations to cut through the layers of delusion in order to …
01:07:45 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
How to Grieve What We've Lost with Sameet Kumar
Sameet Kumar is a clinical psychologist at the Memorial Cancer Institute and Moffitt Hematology and Cellular Therapy program. His work focuses on mindfulness-based approaches to grief and loss. In hi…
00:53:17 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Abortion and Buddhist Ethics with Katy Butler
When journalist Katy Butler first committed to the Buddhist precepts, it didn’t occur to her to consider her two abortions in their light. Now, fifty years later, she has come to understand abortion …
00:47:36 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
Picking Up the Pieces in a Postapocalyptic World with Vajra Chandrasekera
Vajra Chandrasekera is a novelist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His new novel, Rakesfall, follows two characters as they're reincarnated across histories and worlds from the mythic past to modern Sri …
00:53:05 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
A Safe Place to Fall Apart with BJ Miller
When BJ Miller was a sophomore in college, he climbed atop a commuter train and was immediately electrocuted, causing him to lose both legs and half an arm. In the aftermath of his own near-death exp…
00:52:40 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Becoming Thay with Adrienne Minh-Châu Lê
Thich Nhat Hanh was one of the most influential figures in contemporary Buddhism, from his founding of the Order of Interbeing and the Plum Village Tradition to his popularization of Engaged Buddhism…
00:41:37 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
A Meditator's Guide to Buddhism with Cortland Dahl
Cortland Dahl is a Buddhist scholar, translator, meditation teacher, and contemplative scientist based in Madison, Wisconsin. In his new book, A Meditator's Guide to Buddhism: The Path of Awareness, …
01:18:13 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Breaking Bias with Anu Gupta
Anu Gupta is an educator, lawyer, research scientist, and meditation teacher, and his work focuses on harnessing mindfulness and compassion practices for social change. In his new book, Breaking Bias…
00:53:10 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
I'm Mindful, Now What? with Andrew Holecek
Mindfulness has become ubiquitous as a practice. Yet according to meditation teacher Andrew Holecek, mindfulness is not enough to meet the challenges of the modern world.
Holecek is a teacher in th…
01:08:12 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón on Returning to Wonder
Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States and the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent project, You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, is a collection of poetry that she …
00:57:58 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
'There Is No Enemy' with George Mumford
It can be so easy to get trapped in feelings of jealousy and envy, particularly in the context of competitive environments. According to meditation teacher George Mumford, one of the best practices f…
00:56:19 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
Transforming Grief into Wisdom with Sister Dang Nghiem
Born in Central Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War, Sister Dang Nghiem grew up singing made-up songs to comfort herself and express her suffering. After moving to the US, she began writing poet…
00:55:29 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
Practical Tools for Uprooting Anger with Thubten Chodron
In tumultuous times, it can be easy to turn to anger. But according to Venerable Thubten Chodron, from a Buddhist perspective, anger is never useful. Venerable Chodron has been a nun in the Tibetan B…
00:47:44 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
Everyday Enlightenment with Susan Kaiser Greenland
Enlightenment can often sound like an unattainable goal. But mindfulness teacher and author Susan Kaiser Greenland believes that we can find enlightenment in every moment. In her new book, Real-World…
00:48:26 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
Already Free with Bruce Tift
Bruce Tift is a psychotherapist and longtime practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism. In his book, Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path to Liberation, he lays out why he believes that th…
00:49:43 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
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