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
Tara Brach: Radical Compassion
Many of us struggle to silence our inner critic on a daily basis. According to meditation teacher Tara Brach, that’s because we are living in a “trance of unworthiness,” and are addicted to self-judg…
00:58:40 |
Sat 28 Dec 2019
Haemin Sunim: Letting Go of the Perfect Self
When we begin a Buddhist practice, we often set our sights on lofty spiritual goals. Yet the day-to-day problems we face can be stepping stones to deeper understanding. For Zen monk Haemin Sunim, hel…
00:40:42 |
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Koshin Paley Ellison: Waking Up from Zombieland
So often we succumb to our narratives about the people in our lives without taking a moment to examine what’s really going on, and this mindset leaves us feeling isolated. Koshin Paley Ellison calls …
00:44:40 |
Tue 19 Nov 2019
Donald Lopez & Jacqueline Stone: How to Read the Lotus Sutra
The Lotus Sutra is one of the most important Buddhist texts, but for the uninitiated reader, it can make little to no sense. Our guests are two of the foremost scholars in Buddhist studies, Donald Lo…
00:48:21 |
Mon 21 Oct 2019
Rhonda Magee: Learning to See Our Racial Biases
Law professor and mindfulness instructor Rhonda Magee says the recent resurgence of overt racism shows that we failed to address its root cause—our own racial biases. Magee is a professor at the Univ…
00:52:13 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Lawrence Shainberg: Staring at the Wall with Samuel Beckett & Norman Mailer
Writer and longtime Zen student Lawrence Shainberg joins Tricycle Editor and Publisher James Shaheen to discuss his new book, "Four Men Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Maile…
00:37:09 |
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Ronald Purser: McMindfulness
Ronald Purser is a professor of management at San Francisco State University and a longtime Buddhist practitioner who popularized the term McMindfulness in a piece he wrote for the Huffington Post in…
00:46:59 |
Tue 30 Jul 2019
Helen Tworkov: Dying Every Day
At the age of 36, the Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche sneaked out of his monastery in Bodhgaya, India, in the middle of the night to live as a beggar and traveling yogi. Th…
00:49:35 |
Sat 29 Jun 2019
Candy Gunther Brown: Is School Mindfulness Bringing Religion into the Classroom?
In recent years, school mindfulness programs have sprung up across the country, setting off a debate about whether the nominally secular programs derived from religious practices violate laws about t…
00:54:37 |
Thu 30 May 2019
Pico Iyer: Inside Japan as an Outsider
Acclaimed travel and spirituality writer Pico Iyer has written two new books about his life in Japan, Autumn Light (Penguin, April 2019), and the forthcoming A Beginner’s Guide to Japan: Observations…
01:02:13 |
Mon 29 Apr 2019
Duncan Ryuken Williams: When Buddhists Were a “National Security Threat”
On February 19th, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued an executive order designating military zones along the West Coast and laying the groundwork for US authorities to remove citizens o…
00:42:07 |
Fri 15 Feb 2019
Elaine Pagels: Why Do We Still Have Religion?
Acclaimed scholar of religion Elaine Pagels discusses the role of faith today, the practical consequences of religious ideas, and what led her to ask, "Why Religion?" with Tricycle's editor and publi…
00:52:04 |
Thu 24 Jan 2019
Lawrence Levy: Beating Burnout by Just Being
Feeling burnt out does not make you a failure. That’s the first thing Buddhist teacher and former tech executive Lawrence Levy would want you to know. Burnout, Levy says, is a healthy response when o…
00:39:30 |
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Lama Tsultrim Allione: Transforming Negativity Through Fierce Feminine Wisdom
Women have a lot to be angry about. A history of inequality and violence in the Buddhist world and beyond persists to this day. The question remains: what can we do with that anger? Lama Tsultrim All…
00:43:32 |
Thu 12 Jul 2018
Arno Michaelis & Pardeep Singh: How to Fight Hate (Without Your Fists)
In recent years, ethno-nationalist movements have had an apparent resurgence. What can we do to counter the hateful ideologies that have led to so much harm? Arno Michaelis, an ex-neo-Nazi, and Parde…
00:46:22 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
Roshi Joan Halifax: Empathy's Double-Edge
Altruism. Empathy. Integrity. Respect. Engagement. These five psychological states are keys to living a compassionate, courageous life, according to Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, and social activ…
00:54:25 |
Thu 03 May 2018
Judson Brewer: The Mindful Way to Kick a Craving
The second of the four noble truths teaches that craving leads to suffering. But that would be obvious to anyone struggling with addiction. Psychiatrist Judson Brewer, who is the director of research…
00:48:59 |
Fri 13 Apr 2018
Johan Elverskog: How Buddhist & Muslim Stereotypes Conceal the Real History
In the 13th century, Muslim soldiers attacked the Buddhist monastery Nalanda in India. This event is held up as an example of how Muslim invaders were responsible for the eventual destruction of Budd…
00:32:50 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
Mark Epstein: The Task Is Being You
The Buddha had a prescription to end suffering—the eightfold path. But can the Western tradition of psychotherapy build upon these essential steps? Here, Buddhist psychotherapist and bestselling auth…
00:51:12 |
Wed 17 Jan 2018
Guy Armstrong: What Do Buddhists Mean When They Talk About Not-Self?
The foundational Buddhist concept of "no-self" can be a headbanger. What does it mean that our self is fundamentally empty? And if that’s true, who are we? In our latest Tricycle Talks podcast, Insig…
00:57:41 |
Sat 30 Dec 2017
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