Revoked

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Via Daily Dharma: Metabolize the Teachings

Metabolize the Teachings

Hearing is when we listen to or read the teachings, and it’s where the metabolic process begins—your first bite. Meditating is when we sit with what we have heard and metabolize the teachings.

Andrew Holecek, “The Lost Art of Contemplation”

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Illness Is My Friend
By Rev. Ken Yamada

A Shin priest reflects on the death of a sangha member.

TRICYCLE COURSE CATALOG SUPPORT DONATE

RIGHT INTENTION
Cultivating Lovingkindness

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 loving kindness, for when you develop meditation on lovingkindness, all ill will will be abandoned. (MN 62)

Lovingkindness is the way to purity for one who has much ill will. (Vm 9.108)

Reflection

Since every hurtful emotion has a corresponding helpful one that acts as a potential antidote, take advantage of this fact when next you are feeling consumed by aversion. In any moment when you feel ill will, you have the option of feeling kindness in its place, and you will be better off replacing the one with the other. You don’t necessarily have to forgive anyone their actions; you need only to feel different inside yourself.

Daily Practice

Feeling grumpy? Annoyed as all get-out with someone? Furious over somebody’s hurtful words or actions and ready to kill them (figuratively speaking, of course)? Take a closer look: Who is getting hurt here? As much as you might wish for the harm of the other person, it is really only you who is being harmed by your ill will. Take a moment to change the script and see if you can develop some lovingkindness instead. It helps.

Tomorrow: Refraining from False Speech
One week from today: Cultivating Compassion

Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media
#DhammaWheel

Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

Tricycle is a nonprofit and relies on your support to keep its wheels turning.

Donate »

© 2025 Tricycle Foundation
89 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003

Via LGBTQ Nation // Man arrested for crossing the street with chalk on his shoes in Ron DeSantis’ Florida

Corporation For Public Broadcasting To Receive 2025 Governors Award From TV Academy

Monday, September 1, 2025

Via FB

Via Daily Dharma: Express Your Compassion

Browse our online courses »

Express Your Compassion

One thing that is clear is that in the context of an interaction, feeling kindness and compassion alone is not adequate. It needs to be expressed in some form, because without it being expressed, it’s not real from the recipient’s point of view.

Thupten Jinpa, “The Courage to Be Compassionate”

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Revisiting the Romantics
By Vishvapani Blomfield

Explore how romantic poetry can enrich Buddhist practice.

Pilgrimage to India and Nepal
March 8–21, 2026

Follow in the footsteps of the Buddha and explore the lands that he walked in his time, from Lumbini to Kushinagar and each important pilgrimage site in between.

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering

TRICYCLE COURSE CATALOG SUPPORT DONATE

RIGHT VIEW
Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering

When people have met with suffering and become victims of suffering, they come to me and ask me about the noble truth of suffering. Being asked, I explain to them the noble truth of suffering. (MN 77) What is suffering? (MN 9)

Not to get what one wants is suffering. There comes the wish: “Oh, that we were not subject to birth, aging, sickness, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair! Oh, that birth, aging, sickness, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair would not come to us!” But this is not to be obtained by wishing, and not to obtain what one wants is suffering. (MN 9)

Reflection

What exactly does psychological suffering feel like? It is the raw experience of craving itself, the yearning for something that you cannot have, the desperate need for something to go away that is afflicting you, the primal fear of the existential fragility of the human situation. The noble truth of suffering acknowledges all this, but also recognizes that this suffering can be understood and resolved, and thus holds out hope.

Daily Practice

Allow yourself to feel and explore the psychological pain of not getting what you want. It is not just the yearning for something you feel you need, like thirsting for water, but includes the desperate urge to get free of something afflicting you. Notice also that wishing to get what you want or for what you hate to go away is never effective. There is no escape from suffering except by going directly through the craving that causes it.

Tomorrow: Cultivating Lovingkindness
One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering

Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media
#DhammaWheel

Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

Tricycle is a nonprofit and relies on your support to keep its wheels turning.

Donate »