Via Meditation Month Day 13 Inbox Tricycle

 

Day 13 If you're not yet subscribed to Tricycle, subscribe here » PRACTICE PROMPT Look for the looker.   Notice that everything you usually take yourself to be is an object that can be observed. You can describe your body, your feelings, your thoughts, and your memories. If they can be known, they cannot be your true self, because their very existence implies a subject that knows them. What is it that knows? Where is it? Look gently but directly. Related Content Hold to the Center! Exploring Zen’s Three Tenets, Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao explains how not-knowing—in addition to bearing witness and taking action—can help us stay centered. Read more » Nothing Is Outside of Awareness In an excerpt from his online course with Tricycle, Haemin Sunim offers some simple questions to better grasp the meaning of “form and emptiness.”   Read more » Follow Us Meditation Month is a free offering. Consider supporting it with a donation today.   Donate » © 2026 Tricycle Foundation 89 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003

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Via Daily Dharma: A Reason to Meditate

 

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A Reason to Meditate Buddhist ethics are based on an intuitive sense that is difficult to come by. This is one of the reasons we meditate. Brad Warner, “Zen Is Not a Democracy” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Equanimity

 

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RIGHT INTENTION Cultivating Equanimity Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis on which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on equanimity, for when you develop meditation on equanimity, all aversion is abandoned. (MN 62)  The function of equanimity is to see equality in beings. (Vm 9.93) Having heard a sound with the ear, one is neither glad-minded nor sad-minded but abides with equanimity, mindful and fully aware. (AN 6.1)

Reflection Equanimity is the active ingredient in mindfulness practice. Here we see it as the fourth of the brahma-viharas. Equanimity means an evenly balanced mind, like a plate on a stick that inclines neither toward nor away from an object of experience. It is the midpoint between greed (attraction) and hatred (aversion), and is therefore a state in which the mind can be free from the influence of both. Daily Practice As we cycle through the senses, we are encouraged here to work with the sense modality of sound. So often we reach for the sounds that we like and make us feel good, and avoid or recoil from the sounds that we don’t like and make us feel bad. At this basic level of sensory input, can you practice being mindful and fully aware of a sound without either favoring or opposing it? Try to let the sound be what it is, without relating it to yourself and your preferences. Tomorrow: Refraining from Frivolous Speech One week from today: Cultivating Lovingkindness Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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