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 Save Time (By Doing Nothing) with Jenny Odell
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, writer and artist Jenny Odell examined the power of quiet contemplation in a world where our attention is bought and sold. Now, she takes up the question of how …
00:51:10 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
Actor Michael Imperioli on Patience, Practice, and Liberation
Michael Imperioli has a knack for playing mobsters and villains. Best known for his roles as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos and Dominic Di Grasso on The White Lotus, the Emmy Award–winning ac…
00:42:40 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
Attending to the Fullness of Life with Ross Gay
In 2016, poet Ross Gay set out to document a delight each day for a year. After he published The Book of Delights, his friend asked him if he planned to continue his practice. Five years later, he be…
00:43:53 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
“Don’t Despair of This Falling World” with Jane Hirshfield
When poet Jane Hirshfield first arrived at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center nearly fifty years ago, a Zen teacher told her that it was a good idea to have a question to practice with. She’s been asking …
00:54:26 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
A Different Kind of Healing with Anthony Back
As a young oncologist, Anthony Back turned to Buddhism as a practical way of processing the suffering he encountered each day. Over time, his practice has become an essential support to his work in a…
00:46:34 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Being Human and a Buddha Too with Anne C. Klein
When Anne C. Klein (Rigzin Drolma) first read that everyone, including her, was already a buddha, she was so shocked that she put down the book she was reading. Now, as a professor of religious studi…
00:51:07 |
Wed 09 Aug 2023
From Despair to Possibility with Rebecca Solnit
These days, with catastrophe after catastrophe, it can be easy to turn to despair and to believe that there is nothing we can do. But writer Rebecca Solnit is determined to change that narrative. Ove…
01:03:13 |
Wed 26 Jul 2023
Writing in the Bardo with Tenzin Dickie
When Tenzin Dickie was growing up in exile in India, she didn’t have access to works by Tibetan writers. Now, as an editor and translator, she is working to create and elevate the stories she wished …
00:46:15 |
Wed 12 Jul 2023
Listening Fearlessly with Meredith Monk
For the past sixty years, composer and interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk has been expanding the possibilities of the human voice. A pioneer of extended vocal technique and interdisciplinary perf…
00:46:27 |
Wed 28 Jun 2023
When the Baptists Came to Burma with Alex Kaloyanides
In July 1813, a young American couple from Boston arrived in the Buddhist kingdom of Burma to preach the gospel. Although Burmese Buddhists largely resisted Christian evangelism, members of minority …
00:47:34 |
Wed 14 Jun 2023
Casting Indra's Net with Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Pamela Ayo Yetunde has worked as an activist, lay Buddhist leader, chaplain, pastoral counselor, practical theologian, and teacher. In each of these roles, she has witnessed how our humanity has been…
00:51:04 |
Wed 24 May 2023
Living at the Edge of Chaos with Neil Theise
Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a practicing Zen Buddhist. For the past twenty years, he has been fascinated by the science of complex systems from …
00:49:15 |
Wed 10 May 2023
Opening to Freedom with Sharon Salzberg
A world-renowned meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg is the founding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. In her new book, "Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Open…
00:59:27 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
The Magic of Vajrayana with Ken McLeod
For the past forty years, Ken McLeod has worked as a translator of Tibetan texts, practices, and rituals. With his new book, "The Magic of Vajrayana," McLeod takes a more personal approach, drawing f…
00:43:23 |
Wed 12 Apr 2023
Joy as a Practice of Resistance and Belonging with Ross Gay
It can be so easy to dismiss joy as frivolous or not serious, especially in times of crisis or despair. But for poet Ross Gay, joy can be a radical and necessary act of resistance and belonging. In h…
00:40:12 |
Wed 22 Mar 2023
An Antidote to Despair with Emma Varvaloucas
According to the recently released COVID Response Tracking Study, Americans are the unhappiest they’ve been in fifty years. Between the pandemic, mass shootings, and ongoing environmental catastrophe…
00:44:51 |
Wed 08 Mar 2023
How Art Can Liberate Our Perception with Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, professor, philosopher, cartoonist, and martial arts teacher—and he’s also a Tricycle contributing editor. Over the course of his career, he has…
00:35:03 |
Tue 21 Feb 2023
A Practical Guide to the Zen Precepts with Nancy Mujo Baker
The Zen precepts of non-killing, non-stealing, and non-lying can sometimes be presented as a list of rules and regulations. But Zen teacher Nancy Mujo Baker prefers to see them as expressions of enli…
00:38:29 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
It's Never Too Late to Be Happy with Robert Waldinger
As a psychiatrist and Zen priest, Robert Waldinger has devoted much of his professional career to the question of what makes a good life. He currently serves as director of the Harvard Study of Adult…
00:46:26 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Searching for Paradise with Pico Iyer
For 50 years, Pico Iyer has been traveling the globe, seeking out sacred sites from the hidden shrines of Iran to the funeral pyres of Varanasi. Iyer believes that travel can help us confront questio…
01:05:39 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
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