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Exploring a secular dharma: SBN’s online course
SBN's free online course on explores key concepts a secular dharma. Participants in the course will go through the course modules, discuss the topics in each module with each other, and meet on Zoom every two weeks with the instructors for the course.
Compassionate Responses in Our Time: A Blessed Plurality of Inner Practice and Outer Action
Yanai Postelnik explains that the Buddha’s teachings call us to find our own path of heartful practice and engagement, while honouring the range and variety of different ways others may find to express what is authentic and true for them.
On the Prospect of Buddhist Complicity in Genocide
Brian Daizen Victoria examines the tensions with Buddhist chaplains' involvement in the US military, including the war in Iraq and support for the Israeli attacks in Gaza.
SBN’s Half-Day Meditation Retreat – February 16, 2025
The Secular Buddhist Network will be offering a half-day, online retreat on February 16, 2025, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm US Eastern Time.
Should Buddhism take sides?
Bernat Font argues that, while Buddhists should address controversial social and political topics, they should not succumb to the social pressure to 'take sides' and the response needs to be skillful, based on dharmic insights.
Reflections on Stephen Batchelor’s ELSA
Janet Rechtman offers her reflections on Stephen Batchelor's four tasks, or ELSA. She argues that the ELSA formula does not adequately address the role of suffering in our lives.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #64 January 2025
Welcome to our January 2025 newsletter.
This month we feature a new article by Jochen Weber and highlight the following: an update on the SBA-SBN merger, Ted Meissner's 2017 interview with Stephen Batchelor on the The Secular Buddhist podcast, upcoming SBN community meetings on our response to the election of Trump, and the passing of American Soto Zen priest and engaged Buddhist, Hozan Alan Senauke.
Hozan Alan Senauke on Engaged Buddhism
The American Soto Zen priest, Hozan Alan Senauke, who recently passed way, was a vocal advocate for an engaged Buddhism and social change.
SBA-SBN Merger Process Moves Forward
On December 13, the Secular Buddhist Network (SBN) Planning Committee and representatives of the Secular Buddhist Association (SBA) met to discuss the ongoing process of merging the two organizations.
The UN World Meditation Day – Meditating together, connecting globally
Jochen Weber explains why the UN's World Meditation Day was established and how we can use that day to cultivate the path to reducing our own suffering and the suffering in the world.
What should secular dharma practitioners do? Report on a second meeting on the U.S. election
SBN community members participated in a second online meeting on December 5 to discuss the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #63 December 2024
Welcome to our December 2024 newsletter. This month we feature new articles by Sarah Barker, Tom Cummings, and Norma Wong. We also highlight John Danvers' podcast Dharma Roads and a conversation between Winton Higgins and Mike Slott on Mike's new book, Mindful Solidarity.
John Danvers’ Dharma Roads Podcast
Since 2022, John Danvers' podcast Dharma Roads has explored in 32 episodes the wisdom and meditation methods of Zen, Buddhism and other sceptical philosophers, writers and poets.
Compassion in Buddhism: A Psychological Perspective on Media, Reaction, and the Cycle of Samsara
Sarah Barker examines how key Buddhist concepts and several psychological theories can help us to be less reactive in the current political context.
Post-election Meeting of SBN Community Members
On November 14, SBN community members participated in a Zoom meeting to discuss the U.S. election and how we, as secular dharma practitioners, can respond.
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