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Tricycle Talks: Listen to Buddhist teachers, writers, and thinkers on life's big questions. Hosted by James Shaheen, editor in chief of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the leading Buddhist magazine in the West. Life As It Is: Join James Shaheen with co-host Sharon Salzberg and learn how to bring Buddhist practice into your everyday life. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review creates award-winning editorial... more

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A sixteenth-generation descendant of Bizen swordsmiths, Miya Ando is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the ephemerality of natural phenomena. Her new book, Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words, presents a visual co... more

Oneika Mays is a yoga and meditation teacher and former mindfulness coach at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, where she taught for more than a decade. In her new book, Sit with Me: A No-BS Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation, she draws from her... more

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. Now, as a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, he is determined to center the narratives of Vietnamese writers a... more

For the past forty years, Ken McLeod has worked as a teacher and translator of Tibetan texts, practices, and rituals. With his new book, This Unexpected Jewel: Reading the Diamond Sutra, he presents a fresh and accessible translation of the Diamond S... more

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Miya Ando
Artist and author of Water of the Sky, A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words
Independent artist
Episode: Illustrating Impermanence with Miya Ando
Oneika Mays
Yoga and meditation teacher, former mindfulness coach at Rikers Island
Sit With Me book author
Episode: The Practice of Freedom with Oneika Mays
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and professor at University of Southern California
USC
Episode: Writing as Radical Refusal with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Ken McLeod
Teacher, translator of Tibetan texts, author of This Unexpected Jewel, Reading the Diamond Sutra
Independent scholar/teacher
Episode: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Diamond Sutra with Ken McLeod
Sister Tue Nghiem
Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition
Plum Village
Episode: The Zen Art of Caregiving with Sister Tue Nghiem
Jack Saebyok Jung
Poet and translator; translator of Kim Hyesoon's Lady No
Independent translator/poet
Episode: The Shamanic Voice of Kim Hyesoon with Jack Saebyok Jung
Tara Brach
Meditation teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington
Insight Meditation Community of Washington
Episode: The Courage to Choose Love with Tara Brach
Lobsang Tenzin Negi
Co-founder and executive director of the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University
Emory University
Episode: Engaged Compassion with Lobsang Tenzin Negi
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Multidisciplinary artist focusing on history, memory, and the impact of violence and war
Artist and filmmaker (The Light That Shines Through the Universe project; High Line installation)
Episode: Reincarnating the Buddhas of Bamiyan with Tuan Andrew Nguyen

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James Shaheen
Host of Tricycle Talks and Life As It Is; editor at large for a leading Buddhist journal

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4.6 out of 5 stars from 608 ratings
  • Beautiful

    Thank you so much

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    Nick’s The Name 59802
    United States2 months ago
  • Intelligent exploration of Buddhist Concepts/practice

    This is a nice program that both explores questions of how Buddhist ideas connect with life and provides interviews with notable practitioners of the faith. And yet it is some much more.

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    5
    1worldmuyidiomas
    United States2 months ago
  • Leaning Into Darkness

    I recently joined a grief support group. Six months prior to my father‘s death, he informed me that he is not my biological father. While this is shocking in and of itself, our relationship was quite complicated in various ways. And the 10 years prior to his illness and death, we both worked hard to find places of intersection. Which led to a meaningful relationship. Now, with the news of what is known as a non-parental event, I am left perplexed. Still after his passing, I wanted to somehow emb... more

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    5
    Budding Realist
    United States4 months ago
  • A great podcast to go on a walk with…

    I am not a serious Buddhist, but I’ve always loved listening to Dharma talks and I’ve been dabbling with meditation for many years. I find the podcast has a lot of very interesting people and the conversations are quite authentic, something I find missing on a lot of podcast as people in the world are often speaking in the sound bites. That is definitely not the case on tricycle talks. I haven’t been motivated to review before because it’s so tricky you figuring out how to leave a review on Appl... more

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    Awsome face 1254
    United States5 months ago
  • Enlightening

    I’ve enjoyed listening to James Shaheen interview Ocean Vuong, Pico Iyer, Kaira Jewel Lingo and Jake Garfield. He formulates intriguing questions and draws out his interviewees. I am moved to make a donation (Dana).

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    United Statesa year ago

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Illustrating Impermanence with Miya Ando
Q: So Miya, we're here to talk about your new book, Water of the Sky, A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words. What inspired you to work on this project?
COVID lockdown became the catalyst; I started with lists of rain and natural phenomena, and the project grew into a dictionary as I observed the way rain is described across languages and cultures, especially from Japanese and Heian-era sources.
Writing as Radical Refusal with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Q: Why did you choose the dialogue form for The Cleaving?
Because dialogue helps create cross-border connections among writers, reveals how different contexts shape voice, and avoids reducing diasporic experiences to a single narrative; it allows a polyphony of perspectives that reflect the diaspora's complexity.
The Zen Art of Caregiving with Sister Tue Nghiem
Q: Can you talk about the role of storytelling and shifting our relationship to suffering?
Sharing stories helps illuminate the roots of suffering and provides a pathway to understand it more deeply. By telling and listening to these stories, one can recognize the patterns that perpetuate pain and move toward transforming it.
The Zen Art of Caregiving with Sister Tue Nghiem
Q: So to start, can you tell us a bit about the book and how you came to write it?
The book grew from my journal and sought to understand how my mother's health and aging affected me, with encouragement from friends at Plum Village who faced similar caregiving experiences. It became a way to reflect on my own life and the impact of my mother's story.
A Practitioner’s Guide to the Diamond Sutra with Ken McLeod
Q: So how did translating the Sutra change your relationship with it, or the way you practice with it?
Translating deepens personal engagement and joy in practice; it keeps the sutra alive as a living teaching rather than a static text, and it shifts how I approach study and daily life.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Tricycle Talks

What is Tricycle Talks about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A contemplative program pairing Buddhist teachers, poets, researchers, and writers to explore life's big questions through practice, memory, ethics, and culture. Episodes blend deep doctrine with accessible, practice-oriented prompts—reading aloud the Diamond Sutra, caregiving with presence, translating and interpreting poetry, and applying mindfulness to modern concerns like dementia, immigration, and social resilience. Notable threads include the fusion of spiritual inquiry with art, memory, and social action, plus practical exercises (meditations, readings, and rituals) and sponsor segments that contrast traditional practice with contemporary resources. The show consistently showcases diverse voices—from translators and poets to psychoth... more

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