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
Quan Barry on Desire, Doubt, and Faith in a Changing World
Born in Saigon, poet and novelist Quan Barry grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Her latest novel, "When I’m Gone, Look Fo…
00:42:27 |
Wed 23 Feb 2022
Dharma Songs to Stir and Settle with Trent Walker
The Theravada tradition of Buddhism is typically associated with monastic purity and austerity. But according to Trent Walker, a scholar of Southeast Asian Buddhist music, this is only a half-truth, …
01:01:54 |
Wed 09 Feb 2022
On the Road to Awakening with the Traveling Nunk
On September 15, Buddhist monastic Sister Clear Grace Dayananda set out across the United States in the Great Aspiration, a Chevy van she has converted into a portable meditation hall. This mobile mo…
00:46:26 |
Wed 26 Jan 2022
The Zen of Therapy with Mark Epstein
Psychotherapist Mark Epstein is often asked how he incorporates his Buddhist practice into his therapy sessions. His latest book offers an answer to that question. In "The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering …
00:44:30 |
Wed 12 Jan 2022
Coming Back to Embodiment
We often hear meditation described in terms of mindfulness. But Buddhist teacher and writer Martin Aylward playfully offers bodyfulness as an alternative. In his latest book, "Awake Where You Are: Th…
00:57:13 |
Wed 08 Dec 2021
Inside the Issue: Embracing Our Interdependence
In this special series of episodes of Tricycle Talks, editor-in-chief James Shaheen sits down with three contributors to the Winter issue of Tricycle. In today’s episode, he’s joined by Suzannah Show…
00:19:19 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
Inside the Issue: Suzuki Roshi's Approach to Disagreement
In this special series of episodes of Tricycle Talks, editor-in-chief James Shaheen sits down with three contributors to the winter issue of the magazine, out this month. In today’s episode, he’s joi…
00:23:25 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Inside the Issue: Sarah Ruhl on Finding Her Original Face
In this special series of episodes, editor-in-chief James Shaheen sits down with three contributors to the winter issue of the magazine, out this month. In today's episode, he's joined by Sarah Ruhl,…
00:20:59 |
Wed 10 Nov 2021
Solving the Climate Crisis in One Generation
It can be so easy to become demoralized or even apocalyptic about the state of our planet. But entrepreneur and activist Paul Hawken believes we have less reason to despair than we think. In fact, Ha…
00:49:10 |
Wed 27 Oct 2021
What Reality TV Can Teach Us About Surviving Ourselves
Sallie Tisdale is a Zen teacher, writer, and Tricycle contributing editor—and she has seen nearly every season of the award-winning reality TV show Survivor. In her latest book, "The Lie About the Tr…
00:57:05 |
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Accepting Death to Live More Fully
When her closest childhood friend was diagnosed with cancer, writer and interfaith minister Barbara Becker set out on a quest to live a year of her life as if it were her last. Drawing from a variety…
00:48:40 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
'Music or Madness, It's Up to You'
“A book must start somewhere. One brave letter must volunteer to go first, laying itself on the line in an act of faith, from which a word takes heart and follows, drawing a sentence into its wake. F…
00:40:35 |
Wed 08 Sep 2021
Every Moment Is a Bardo
For many of us, this past year has felt like an in-between state, as our usual routines and realities have been upended. Tricycle contributing editor and writer Ann Tashi Slater likens this suspensio…
00:51:26 |
Wed 25 Aug 2021
The Anxiety of Return
After months of isolation, many of us are in a moment of transition, whether we’re attending larger social gatherings again, seeing relatives, or preparing to head back to the office for the first ti…
00:43:46 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
Inside Tricycle's Fall 2021 Issue
In this special episode of Tricycle Talks, editor-in-chief James Shaheen is joined by three contributors to Tricycle’s 30th anniversary issue, out this August. First, Jordan Quaglia, a neuroscientist…
00:58:57 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
Diseases of the Heart
Welcome to Tricycle’s new podcast series, Life As It Is. Each month, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief James Shaheen and co-host Sharon Salzberg will speak with Buddhist practitioners about their work, prac…
00:51:25 |
Wed 28 Jul 2021
The Hungry Ghosts Among Us
We often look to buddhas and bodhisattvas as the heroic protagonists of the Buddhist cosmos. But even the most wretched creatures can teach us a thing or two about the dharma. Andy Rotman, a scholar …
00:54:44 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
How a Buddhist Mom and Activist Took on the National Rifle Association
The day after the Sandy Hook tragedy in 2012, Shannon Watts, a former communications executive and stay-at-home mom of five, founded Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Since then, the grass…
00:51:10 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
Tired of Pretending to Be Me
Not too long ago I attended an online retreat with Joseph Goldstein, cofounder and guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. I've sat with Joseph on retreats before, …
00:54:07 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
Inside Tricycle's Summer 2021 Issue
In the latest episode of Tricycle Talks, editor-in-chief James Shaheen sits down to talk with four contributors to Tricycle’s Summer issue out this May. First up are psychotherapist Mindy Newman and …
01:10:05 |
Tue 18 May 2021
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