Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

In the Avatamsaka Sutra (or Flower Adornment Scripture), the Buddha says that “all living beings fully possess the wisdom and virtues of the buddhas” but that “because of misconceptions and attachments, they do not realize it.” Tenshin Reb Anderson—student of Shunryu Suzuki, abbot and then co-abbot of San Francisco Zen Center from 1986 to 1995, and now a senior ...

The following poems are from From Here to Here, a collection of poems by the eminent Chinese poet Lan Lan. On Wednesday, July 22, Tricycle is hosting a reading at Poetry Society of America in Brooklyn featuring Lan Lan,

The practice we know as the four immeasurables cultivates four intentions or states of mind that are an integral part of the Buddhist path: loving-kindness, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity. While this fundamental transmission is common to all forms of Buddhism, different sch...

The phone call came six months after we wrote the check. We had lost our investment.

My husband Lyn previously worked in the medical field and occasionally came across promising biotech startups. Several years after I began my metta practice, he came home one evening with a prospectus—a document outlining a company’s business plan and financial projections—for a...

The small dokusan room, dark even at midday, was filled with the sound of the nearby Tassajara Creek. Sitting face-to-face, knees almost touching, my teacher Darlene Cohen said to me, “You don’t have to be so afraid.” My body jerked back a bit, not sure I had heard her correctly. “Sorry,” I said, tilting my head in question, “Could you repeat that?” “You don’t have to ...