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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.”
Dharma practice is harder now
Bernat Font discusses how modern technology, including online delivery apps, have facilitated access to desired things to an unprecedented degree and thus stimulated reactive greed.
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.
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.
The Doubting Disease: A Buddhist’s Struggle with OCD
Bernat Font discusses his experiences with OCD and the approach - based on dharma and cognitive behavioral therapy - which has helped him to live with greater ease with this condition.
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.
The mistake of “applying” the practice: the sponge cake approach
Bernat Font believes that it is more helpful to think of daily tasks and situations as the material we use to cultivate meditation skills rather as a place to "apply" them.
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.
Goodbye to the historical Buddha?
Bernat Font discusses the controversy over whether the Buddha can be considered a historical figure.
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.
How to meditate without emotions
Bernat Font will offer a new way of approaching the concepts of vedana and emotion in an online course for Bodhi College, 7 May to 18 June.
On our fixation with the early texts
Arguing against the widespread view that the commentaries on the suttas are ossified and scholastic readings of the teachings, Bernat Font-Clos urges us to be open to finding in them important insights for our practice.
What are the core elements of a secular approach to the dharma?
At a recent online meeting of leaders and facilitators of secular Buddhist groups, organizations, and sanghas, various perspectives were offered on the best way to define or describe a secular approach to the dharma.
On resolving the neo-early Buddhist contradiction
Bernat Font-Clos identifies an important contradiction in the 'neo-early Buddhist' perspective prominent among many contemporary meditation teachers in the Insight tradition and proposes a resolution of the contradiction which is consistent with a life-affirming rather than a renunciant approach to our experiences.
An interview with Yanai Postelnik on meditation and climate change activism
Bernat Font Clos interviewed Yanai Postelnik, a meditation teacher who in recent years has been devoting more and more time to climate activism with the group Extinction Rebellion, a decentralized, international movement using non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act on the climate emergency.
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