Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Grief and love are deeply interconnected, and it was my experience of both that led me to write the article “Contemplations on the Five Mindfulness Trainings: A New Paradigm for Racial Justice and the Global Pandemic.” I ...

Thich Nhat Hanh—the world-renowned Zen teacher, author, poet, and peace activist—was born on October 11, 1926, in central Vietnam. Today marks the 100th anniversary of his birth, or what the Plum Village tradition calls his “continuation day” in recognition of the Zen teaching that there is

We have society inside of us. Our land ancestors, our blood ancestors, our spiritual ancestors, our ecological ancestors, and millions of ancestors we do not know personally.

We were born already with society in us, in our genes, and in all that has been transmitted to us since we’ve been alive; wherever we’ve been in the world, whatever our family situation was like, ...

To return to the present is to be in contact with life. Life can be found only in the present moment, because the past no longer is and the future has not yet come. Buddhahood, liberation, awakening, peace, joy, and happiness can only be found in the present moment. Our appointment with life is in the present moment. The place of our appointment is right here, in this very pl...

August 25, 1957

When a person makes up his mind to do one thing but then turns around to do something else entirely, the results of his first intention simply won’t come about. A person like this has to be classed as really stupid—an ingrate to himself, a traitor to himself. Like a child who says goodbye to its parents, telling them tha...