Nirosta Steel on Buddhist Pop and the Making of ‘MY SKYSCRAPER’
Steven Hall, aka Nirosta Steel, has been making ambitious experimental music for more than forty years, though most of it has gone unrelease...
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A Buddhist Guide to How to Truly Love with Maria Heim
Maria Heim is a professor of religion at Amherst College. Her new book, How to Truly Love: An Ancient Guide to a Life of Kindness, presents...
Bridging Contemplation and Action with Jonathan F. P. Rose
Jonathan F. P. Rose is an urban planner and philanthropist whose work focuses on creating more environmentally, socially, and economically r...
Illustrating Impermanence with Miya Ando
A sixteenth-generation descendant of Bizen swordsmiths, Miya Ando is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the ephemerality of natu...
The Practice of Freedom with Oneika Mays
Oneika Mays is a yoga and meditation teacher and former mindfulness coach at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, where she taught for more...
Writing as Radical Refusal with Viet Thanh Nguyen
When Viet Thanh Nguyen was growing up as a refugee in the United States, it was hard for him to find stories that represented his experience...
A Practitioner’s Guide to the Diamond Sutra with Ken McLeod
For the past forty years, Ken McLeod has worked as a teacher and translator of Tibetan texts, practices, and rituals. With his new book, Thi...
The Zen Art of Caregiving with Sister Tue Nghiem
Sister Tue Nghiem is a dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition. She is currently based in Australia. In her new book, Caregiving and th...
The Shamanic Voice of Kim Hyesoon with Jack Saebyok Jung
In March 2014, the legendary avant-garde poet Kim Hyesoon embarked on her first foray into digital performance art. For a duration of eight...
The Courage to Choose Love with Tara Brach
Tara Brach is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, and she has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975....
Engaged Compassion with Lobsang Tenzin Negi
Lobsang Tenzin Negi is the cofounder and executive director of the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory Uni...
Reincarnating the Buddhas of Bamiyan with Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Tuan Andrew Nguyen is a multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on history, memory, and the ongoing impact of violence and war, particul...
Writing into the Void with Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen priest. She recently published her first short story collection, The Typing Lady and Other Fict...
Finding Balance to Engage More Fully with Margaret Cullen
Equanimity can often be mistaken for passivity or indifference. But meditation teacher Margaret Cullen insists that it is actually about fee...
A Beginner’s Guide to Dark Retreat with Andrew Holecek
Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and he leads seminars and retreats on meditation, dream...
Did the Buddha Really Teach That There Is No Self?
Thanissaro Bhikkhu is an American Theravada Buddhist monk trained in the Thai forest tradition. He currently serves as abbot of the Metta Fo...
Opening to Wonder with Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, and she recently completed her term as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. During...
Bridging Worlds with US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze is a poet and translator based in Sante Fe, New Mexico, and he is currently serving as the 25th Poet Laureate of the United State...
A Buddhist Guide to Understanding Emotion with Maria Heim
Buddhism can often be mischaracterized as encouraging the elimination of emotion. Yet, as scholar Maria Heim points out, feeling is central...
Reimagining the Story of Citizenship with Daisy Hernández
Daisy Hernández is an associate professor at Northwestern University and a Tricycle contributing editor. Her new book, Citizenship: Notes on...