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Living life on life’s terms: turning the wheel of secular dharma
Ramsey Margolis introduces a new book from the secular Buddhist publishing imprint, Tuwhiri: Living Life on Life's Terms. The co-authors are Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor, and Bernat Font.
Our wonky wheel: Why Buddhist practice is a response to bias
Robert M. Ellis's recent book, Bias and the Middle Way, explores how mindfulness, the Middle Way, and psychological theories can help us avoid biases which cause suffering.
Living life on life’s terms: turning the wheel of secular dharma
Tuwhiri has launched a Kickstarter campaign to pre-sell their next book – Living life on life’s terms: turning the wheel of secular dharma. This book brings together eighteen talks from the one-year Bodhi College Secular Dharma course, which was taught by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor and Bernat Font.
A Review of Jeffrey Fracher’s The Secular Path to Well-being
Tom Cummings reviews Jeffrey Fracher's book, The Secular Path to Well-being: Practical Dharma for Today. The book offers strategies that provide practical, accessible applications of dharma teachings to the dilemmas we all face. 
Two New Books from Tuwhiri
Tuwhiri, the secular Buddhist publishing imprint, has two new books coming out: The Secular Path to Well-Being, by Jeffrey Fracher, and Living Life on Life's Terms, by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor, and Bernat Font.
Living life on life's terms
Tuwhiri’s next book: ‘Living life on life’s terms’
Tuwhiri, the secular Buddhist publishing imprint, will shortly be publishing ‘Living life on life’s terms: turning the wheel of secular dharma’ by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor and Bernat Font.
News from Tuwhiri, a secular Buddhist publishing imprint
Tuwhiri – books for secular Buddhists
Ramsey Margolis discusses Tuwhiri’s future offerings of secular Buddhist books, and encourages people – wherever you are in the world – to get involved.
Requisites
In the context of our global ecological crisis, Ramya Jirasinghe's book of poems, Requisites, explores the eight requisites that the Buddha stipulated as the only essential possessions for monastics.
Stephen Batchelor on Secular Dharma
In a chapter from his new book, Buddha, Socrates, and Us, Stephen Batchelor presents the core elements of a secular approach to the dharma.
Stephen Batchelor on his New Book: Buddha, Socrates, and Us
Tom Cummings reports on a talk by Stephen Batchelor on his new book, Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Times.
Why Buddhists should be Interested in Embodied Meaning
Robert M. Ellis discusses how embodied meaning is a crucial aspect of the Buddha's Middle Way and thus should be an important part of any Buddhist practitioner's perspective.
Stephen Batchelor and Gil Fronsdal Discuss “Buddha, Socrates, and Us”
Stephen Batchelor and Gil Fronsdal met on July 29 for a 90-minute online conversation to explore the themes of Stephen’s upcoming book, Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Times.
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.
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.
An Online Discussion of Mindful Solidarity
On January 30, at 7 pm US Eastern Time, Craig Murphy, Seth Zuihō Segall, and Karsten Struhl joined Mike Slott for a discussion around his book, Mindful Solidarity: A Secular Buddhist Democratic Socialist Dialogue. The online discussion was sponsored by the Secular Buddhist Network and Tuwhiri, a secular Buddhist publishing imprint.