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The Mango That Wouldn’t Ripen: (A Rwamiti Way Story about Patience, Control, and Quiet Fruitfulness)
Petero Wamala's story highlights the value of patience and recognizing our limited control over life's events, two important Buddhist insights.
Reconstructing the Dharma: An Axiomatic Approach to Buddha’s Teachings
Kenneth Leong argues that two core Buddhist concepts - non-self and this-that conditionality - provide the axiomatic foundation for all Buddhist concepts and doctrines.
Cultivating Ethical Mindfulness — Reflections from Our Hong Kong Workshop
Ayda Duroux discusses a workshop on Mindfulness Based Ethical Living (MBEL) that she and Stephen Batchelor offered at the International Conference of Mindfulness - Asia Pacific (ICMAP) 2025.
MBEL Pilot Course to Begin in September
A ten week, online course on Mindfulness Based Ethical Living (MBEL) will be offered beginning in September 2025.
Stephen Batchelor: books, articles, and interviews
Stephen Batchelor's books, articles, and dharma talks have offered a compelling vision of a secular dharma based on individual transformation and creating a “culture of awareness” in this world.
A Secular Buddhism Based on the Lotus Sūtra
John Tate offers an alternative foundation for secular Buddhism through a new interpretation of the Lotus Sutra.
Exploring Awareness During Daily Life
Marc Symons discusses how the practice of receptive awareness enables us to be more mindful and less reactive off the cushion and in our daily lives.
A Critique of Secular Buddhism
Jesus Perez argues that secular Buddhism is characterized by a sense of cultural superiority over non-western cultures and reflects a worldview shaped by commercialism and individualism.
Grieving the eclipse of western ethics
In a recent dharma talk Winton Higgins discusses the contradiction between western ethical ideals which embrace our common humanity and the violence, inequality, and cruelty so prevalent in western societies.
The Woman Who Hated Temples but Loved the Silence
Petero Wamala offers a story about love, mindful presence, and kindness.
Buddhist Intolerance: Bhutan’s Persecution of its Hindu Minority Exacerbated by Trump
An article from Religion News Service highlights the Bhutanese Buddhist majority’s mistreatment of its Hindu minority and how the Trump administration’s harsh policies toward refugees and immigrants have complicated the matter for Bhutanese Hindus.
The Buddha Comments on Politics
Linda Blanchard argues that the Buddha's key concept of dependent arising reveals how our tendency toward self-making is impacted by socially constructed beliefs which underpin political views.
Meet SBN’s New Board of Directors
The merger of the Secular Buddhist Association and the Secular Buddhist Network has been finalized. A new slate of officers and members of the SBN Board of Directors has been elected.
Buddhist Coalition for Democracy Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Mahmoud Khalil
The Buddhist Coalition for Democracy has joined together with 35 other religious organizations as a party to an amicus curiae brief in the case of Mahmoud Khalil's unlawful detention by the federal government.
Zen Terror in 1930s Japan
Brian Victoria's book, Zen Terror in Prewar Japan, explores how some Zen Buddhists in Japan in the 1930s interpreted the Buddha's teachings to justify political assassinations.
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