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[Peace Becomes Possible: An Interview with ThĂ­ch Nháș„t HáșĄnh](https://tricycle.org/article/peace-becomes-possible-an-interview-with-thich-nhat-hanh/)

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[Alan Senauke](https://tricycle.org/author/alansenauke/) and [Wes Nisker](https://tricycle.org/author/wesnisker/) in conversation with [Thich Nhat Hanh](https://tricycle.org/author/thichnhathanh/)

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[A Meditation on Loving Our Skin](https://tricycle.org/article/a-meditation-on-loving-our-skin/)

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[‘Spring Is Back Already’ and Other Poems](https://tricycle.org/article/spring-is-back-already-and-other-poems/)

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By Xin Qiji, translated by [Bill Porter (Red Pine)](https://tricycle.org/author/billporter/)

[Ideas](https://tricycle.org/topic/ideas/)

[Why Love What You Will Lose?](https://tricycle.org/article/why-love-what-you-will-lose/)

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Daily Dharma

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You have to know the true nature of dying to understand the true nature of living. If you don’t understand death, you don’t understand life.

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[Performing The Ritual of Life](https://tricycle.org/magazine/dogen-and-enlightenment/)

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Satori—or awakening—is a living engagement with the world.

By [Dharmavidya David Brazier](https://tricycle.org/author/dharmavidyadavidbrazier/)

Winter 2019

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[Meditation](https://tricycle.org/topic/meditation/) [Meditation Month 2024](https://tricycle.org/category/meditation-month-2024/)

[Awakening to Joy](https://tricycle.org/article/awakening-joy-meditation-practice/)

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A simple method for developing enthusiasm for practice

By [Pema DĂŒddul](https://tricycle.org/author/pemaduddel/)

Jan 26, 2024

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[Listening to Our Ancestors](https://tricycle.org/article/listening-practice/)

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Three practices for listening mindfully—to ourselves and others

By [Thich Nhat Hanh](https://tricycle.org/author/thichnhathanh/)

Nov 04, 2024

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[Liberating Happiness](https://learn.tricycle.org/p/liberating-happiness?utm_source=trikehp2)

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You may already know that lasting happiness is not found in material goods and enviable experiences. Even so, you'd be surprised at how much joy is to be gained through a program of meditation, inquiry, and action. By the end of this course, you will be in no doubt.

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    The Good Life

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    With John Peacock and Akincano Weber

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    The Five Spiritual Powers

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    With Christina Feldman, Christoph Köck, and Jake Dartington

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    The Seven Universal Virtues

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May 16-28, 2025.

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Join us on this Buddhist Pilgrimage to Mongolia and witness a Buddhist renaissance firsthand in the Land of the Eternal Blue Sky from June 29-July 13, 2025.

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[Clarifying Dependent Origination](https://tricycle.org/dharmatalks/clarifying-dependent-origination/)

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[Bhante Henepola Gunaratana](https://tricycle.org/author/bhantehenepolagunaratana/)

Bhante Gunaratana—known as “Bhante G”—dives into one of the Buddha’s lesser-discussed yet essential teachings on the path to liberation.

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    The Gift of Attention

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    [](https://tricycle.org/dharmatalks/the-gift-of-attention/)[Zohar Lavie](https://tricycle.org/author/zoharlavie/)

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    Mindfulness, Wisdom, and Compassion: Exploring the Nature of Experience

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    Here for It, as It Is Now

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[On the Road](https://tricycle.org/filmclub/ontheroad/)

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“On the Road” offers an unprecedented glimpse into the life of Buddhist nuns at Backheung-am, a thousand-year-old rural Korean Buddhist nunnery.

By [Changjae Lee](https://tricycle.org/author/changjaelee/)

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[The Grieving Body](https://tricycle.org/podcast/mary-frances-oconnor/)

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Psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor explores the toll that loss takes on our bodies—and what this can teach us about care, compassion, and interdependence.

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    A Journey through Buddhist History

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    With Donald S. Lopez Jr.

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    Uprooting Harmful Habits

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    With Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John

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    Planting the Seeds of Happy Relationships

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    With Kimberly Brown

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