Katy Butler

Nov 13, 2024 | tricycle.org | Katy Butler

Tricycle is pleased to offer the Tricycle Talks podcast for free. If you would like to support this offering, please consider donating. Thank you! When journalist Katy Butler first committed to the Buddhist precepts, it didn’t occur to her to consider her two abortions in their light. Now, fifty years later, she has come to understand abortion in the context of harm reduction and the alleviation of suffering.

Nov 9, 2024 | tricycle.org | Katy Butler |Thich Nhat Hanh

On a hot August day forty years ago in southern France, Thich Nhat Hanh summoned me to his private room on the second floor of an old stone farmhouse. “I want you to take the five lay precepts,” he said, referring to the ancient Buddhist guidelines against harming oneself or others via killing, stealing, sexual exploitation, using intoxicants, and indulging in hurtful or dishonest speech. “The people who harmed you as a child violated the precepts. This will protect you.”Not killing seemed obvious.

Aug 10, 2024 | tricycle.org | Katy Butler

Not long after I went to work for the San Francisco Chronicle, I bought an Econoline camper van with 112,000 miles on it and drove it to New Mexico to sit a sesshin with the fierce Rinzai Zen teacher Joshu Sasaki Roshi. I hoped to experience satori, which I imagined as a kind of spiritual and psychological washing machine. I was 28. I’d read only one Buddhist book.

Aug 10, 2024 | tricycle.org | Thich Nhat Hanh |Katy Butler

Patrick NagataniThroughout his forty-year career, Patrick Nagatani’s inventive photography pushed the limits of his field. Themes of magical realism and Japanese heritage were pillars of his work and stand out in his series “Tape/estries” (1982–2015), featured on the cover and in “The Spirit of Impermanence.” These intricate compositions were created by applying thousands of pieces of cut masking tape to chromogenic photographs, an arduous but meditative process.

Aug 29, 2023 | lifeafterhate.org | Katy Butler

On Race-Driven Shootimg in Jacksonville, FLMILWAUKEE, WI (August 27, 2023) – Patrick Riccards, the Executive Director and CEO of Life After Hate, the nation’s leader in helping individuals disengage and deradicalize from violent far-right extremist groups and online hate spaces, issued the following statement in response to the recent mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida.