Haley Barker

Brooklyn, New York

Editorial Assistant at Tricycle Buddhist Magazine

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Prioritizing Self-View

1 month ago | tricycle.org | Haley Barker

While it’s natural to care about others’ opinions, we don’t have to give undue weight to views that are constantly changing anyway. As Milarepa once said, “Trying to make others happy is endless.”
Enchantment and Illusion

1 month ago | tricycle.org | Haley Barker

To explore Michela Martello’s art is to be absorbed into a world of sacred femininity. Layers of color on canvas create the backdrop for ethereal figures and animals, often posed in powerful yet playful forms. Some pieces depict spread-legged women locked in a tantric embrace. Others feature wrathful goddesses sporting multiple arms or an animal’s head.
Do Good Now

Mar 27, 2025 | tricycle.org | Haley Barker

Whatever goodness we’re capable of doing, we should do now, when we have the opportunity, because the opportunity won’t always be there.
Trusting in Awareness

Mar 26, 2025 | tricycle.org | Haley Barker

Awareness embraces the feeling of excitement or sadness, but it does not get excited or sad. So it’s a matter of learning to trust in that awareness rather than just endlessly struggling with whatever feelings might be arising.
The Art of Ruth Asawa: Weaving Wire

Feb 15, 2025 | tricycle.org | Haley Barker

“An artist is not special,” according to Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013). “An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.”Born in Norwalk, California, to Japanese immigrants, Ruth Asawa’s childhood revolved around the eighty-acre farm that the Asawas tended (on lease, due to discriminatory laws that barred them from owning land).
The Great Buddha of Ibiraçu

Feb 15, 2025 | tricycle.org | Haley Barker

Reaching boldly over the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro, the impressive Christ the Redeemer statue has been an emblem of Brazil for nearly one hundred years. But in 2021, the Redeemer met its match in the Great Buddha of Ibiraçu. At 38 meters tall—the same height as the Redeemer—this massive monument is the largest Buddha image in the West and the second largest in the world. It resides at Mosteiro Zen Morro da Vargem, a Soto Zen monastery complex in the rolling hills of Ibiraçu, Espírito Santo.
Healing from Helene

Jan 10, 2025 | tricycle.org | Haley Barker

When Hurricane Helene changed course on September 27 and began heading toward western North Carolina, many residents of the mountainous area were unprepared for what was to come. After all, the region ranks “relatively low” on FEMA’s hurricane risk index and hasn’t been impacted by hurricane damage since Matthew, in 2016. But when news of the hurricane’s trajectory reached Karina Shevchenko of Asheville, she had an intuition that the storm was exceptional.
The Great Pine Forest Monastery

Nov 9, 2024 | tricycle.org | Haley Barker

At the end of the Vietnam War, in 1975, close to two million refugees fled the Southeast Asian country—often in boats—in search of better living conditions. Around two hundred thousand “boat people,” as the refugees were often called in popular media, landed in Canada, bringing with them the rich tradition of Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhism.
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Nov 8, 2024 | tricycle.org | James Shaheen |Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar |Haley Barker |Jake Dartington

The Oldest Game There IsThe winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge shows us what it looks like to belong to a planet.
Meeting the Buddha in the Scrapyard

Aug 29, 2024 | tricycle.org | Haley Barker

When Brooklyn-based artist Elizabeth Englander began creating Buddhist figures for a new sculpture series, she was maintaining something of a “scholarly distance” from the religion connected to it. “I read about Buddhism, and thought a lot about it in my art, but I felt like I couldn’t practice,” she says, but eventually, that would change.