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
Warrior Zen with Cristina Moon
At the age of 25, Cristina Moon sat her first ten-day meditation retreat to prepare for the possibility of arrest and torture inside military-ruled Burma. While Moon acknowledges the naïveté of her i…
00:56:01 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
Weathering the Eight Worldly Winds with Ethan Nichtern
In the midst of constant change, it can be easy to feel knocked around by forces outside our control. In Buddhist terminology, these forces are often referred to as the eight worldly winds: pleasure …
00:51:50 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
Awakening in Every Moment with Kazuaki Tanahashi
Kazuaki Tanahashi is an artist, translator, calligrapher, and environmental activist and peaceworker. In his new book, Gardens of Awakening: A Guide to the Aesthetics, History, and Spirituality of Ky…
00:41:17 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
Why Actor Michael O’Keefe Renounced His Buddhist Vows
Michael O’Keefe is an actor, poet, and lyricist—and he’s also a former Zen priest. In his article in the Spring issue of Tricycle, “The Lost Robe,” he explores what led him to renounce his vows and l…
00:46:13 |
Wed 22 May 2024
Calling on Our Ancestors with Kaira Jewel Lingo
When she was just 11 years old, Kaira Jewel Lingo already knew that she wanted to be a nun. Fourteen years later, she ordained in the Plum Village tradition, where she trained closely with her teache…
00:52:11 |
Wed 15 May 2024
At the Crossroads of Buddhism and America with Helen Tworkov
Helen Tworkov grew up in a family of artists where art was considered the religion. Yet from an early age, she sought another kind of religion—one that would address deeper questions of the nature of…
00:44:27 |
Wed 08 May 2024
Facing Injustice with Joy with Dr. Kamilah Majied
Dr. Kamilah Majied is a mental health therapist, clinical educator, and consultant on advancing equity and inclusion through contemplative practice. In her new book, Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and B…
00:58:08 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Transmuting Generational Grief with Jungwon Kim
In the face of global crises and catastrophes, how can we work with our anger effectively? And how can we channel our grief and rage without becoming consumed by it?
These questions are at the core o…
00:54:00 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Arthur Sze on Translating Loss and Renewal
Unlike many contemporary American poets, Arthur Sze did not attend a traditional MFA program to learn to write poetry. Instead, he turned to translation to hone his craft. His latest collection, The …
00:58:36 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
Awakening to What We Already Are with Gaylon Ferguson
Gaylon Ferguson is an acharya, or senior teacher, in the Shambhala International Buddhist community and a faculty member in Religious Studies at Naropa University. In his new book, Welcoming Beginner…
00:59:09 |
Wed 27 Mar 2024
A Call for the Full Ordination of Women with Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Karma Lekshe Tsomo came to Buddhism because of a typo: years ago, her family name had been mistakenly changed from Zinn to Zenn. When her classmates started teasing her about being a Zen Buddhist, sh…
00:52:34 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
Living Between Worlds with Amy Yee
In March 2008, journalist Amy Yee was assigned to cover a press conference in Dharamsala following the Chinese government’s crackdown on protests throughout Tibet. After an unexpected personal encoun…
00:47:04 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
A Guide for When Things Don't Go Your Way with Haemin Sunim
Haemin Sunim is a Korean Zen monk based in Seoul, where he founded the School of Broken Hearts and the Dharma Illumination Zen Center. In his new book, When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for D…
00:47:36 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
What Makes a Good Life with Seth Segall
What does it mean to live an ethical life? And how can cultivating wisdom and virtue support us in navigating the crises of today’s world?
These questions are at the center of Zen priest and psycholo…
00:53:58 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
The Zen Way of Recovery with Laura Burges
Laura Burges is a lay-entrusted teacher in the Soto Zen tradition, and she has been leading retreats on recovery at the San Francisco Zen Center for over twenty years. In her new book, The Zen Way of…
00:53:37 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
Revisiting Radical Acceptance with Tara Brach
It can be so easy to feel like we’re not enough or that we’re somehow insufficient. According to meditation teacher Tara Brach, this feeling of unworthiness is fundamentally a disease of separation, …
01:01:36 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
Restoring Dignity at the End of Life with Sunita Puri
Sunita Puri is a writer, a palliative medicine physician, and an associate professor at the UMass Chan Medical School. In her memoir, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, she expl…
01:05:58 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
How the First Buddhist Women Became Free
After the Buddha’s enlightenment, his aunt and adoptive mother, Mahapajapati Gotami, asks him to ordain women and welcome them into his new monastic community. The Buddha declines to fulfill her requ…
00:56:39 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
Meeting Crisis with Compassion with Oren Jay Sofer
What is the role of contemplative practice in times of crisis? And how can meditation actually support us in meeting the greatest challenges of our time?
Oren Jay Sofer takes up these questions in hi…
00:53:13 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Becoming the New Saints with Lama Rod Owens
Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized lama in the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. In his new book, The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors, he draws from the …
01:03:06 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
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