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Book Launch for “When Stuck Happens”
Secular Buddhist Network’s Daily Life Practice Group is pleased to launch Tuwhiri’s newest book, When stuck happens: How we get caught, soften, and come back to life, by Cathryn Jacob.
Enhancing the SBN Sangha Community – A Caring Group
The Secular Buddhist Network is exploring the establishment of what we are calling a Caring Group, which would be focused on reaching out to individual SBN members who have gone missing from their usual SBN activities to check if they are okay.
A Secular Buddhism Based on the Lotus Sūtra
In a revised article John Tate offers an alternative foundation for secular Buddhism through a new interpretation of the Lotus Sutra.
Four Experiences of the Present
Jan Bover discusses four highly distinct ways of living and experiencing the present, although the boundaries between them are blurred and the transition from one to another is always gradual, never abrupt.
The Chair With My Name On It
Petero Wamala's fictional story about an older man's relationship to a chair offers a valuable lesson on the suffering we experience from a certain form of attachment.
Action Tames Anxiety
Piero Falci urges us to integrate our mindfulness meditation practice with sustained engagement and political activism.
After the Storm (and why I still don’t have answers)
Jeffrey Fracher points out that when we undergo a painful experience, we have to be willing to experience unknowing, the instability of identity, and the bittersweetness of change.
A Gentle Pessimism: Impermanence as a Gateway to Compassion
Kristopher Keith advocates a perspective which integrates Schopenhaeur's philosophy of pessimism with Buddhism's notions of impermanence and compassion.
Book Launch: Living Life on Life’s Terms
Bodhi College is hosting an online event on September 30 to celebrate the publication of a new book, Living Life on Life's Terms, by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor, and Bernat Font.
New Mindfulness-Based Ethical Living (MBEL) Courses Available for English Speakers
Registration is now open for the first English language courses of the revised version of the Mindfulness-Based Ethical Living (MBEL) course.
Our Suffering Is Not a Private Matter (and what it costs the people standing nearest)
Jeffrey Fracher recounts a friend's experience to highlight how dukkha often "doesn't stay inside us. It moves through us, into the room, and onto whoever happens to be standing closest."
Book Review of Living Life on Life’s Terms: Turning the Wheel of Secular Dharma
Anne-Laure Brousseau reviews a new book by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor, and Bernat Font. The book is based on seminar talks given by the three authors at a Bodhi College course called “Secular Dharma: Study, Practice, Community.”
Introducing the Daily Life Practice Group
Marc Symons and Sharon Tobias discuss a new SBN online group that focuses on how we can bring mindfulness to our daily life activities.
BCD and IMCW to Host Virtual Town Hall on Engaged Buddhism
The Buddhist Coalition for Democracy (BCD) and Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC (IMCW) are hosting a virtual town hall — The Bodhisattva Path in Action: How Buddhism, Politics, and Social Engagement Serve Democracy — on Thursday, September 24, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. ET via Zoom.
RAFT to Freedom: setting out together
Cathryn Jacob and Vince Cullen discuss RAFT to Freedom, a peer-led, task-based program grounded in secular Buddhism which begins Sept. 1. It may be especially helpful to those seeking to change harmful cravings, but it is not limited to recovery.
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