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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.

Goodbye to the historical Buddha?

Bernat Font discusses the controversy over whether the Buddha can be considered a historical figure.

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.

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.

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.

I Try To Be Buddhist Just Like We’re All Newtonians

Jourdan Arensen argues that the Buddha's teachings are not cosmic truths. Instead, they provide us with a set of prescriptions for how to live ethically and cultivate well-being.

When the Buddha refused to respond

Ramsey Margolis discusses the refusal of Gotama, the historical Buddha, to discuss metaphysical questions. Instead, his focus was on the alleviation of suffering

An interview with Seth Segall on his new book, The House We Live In

SBN interviewed Seth Zuihō Segall about his new book, The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism. In this book Seth offers a theory of ethics and flourishing based on Aristotle, Buddha, and Confucius.

Relatively speaking – truth, diversity & wellbeing

In this article John Danvers clarifies some of the thinking around notions of truth to help secular Buddhists to develop their own ideas of what is true and beneficial.

Getting the ball rolling: a new translation of the title of the Buddha’s first teaching

Bhikkhu Santi contends that an alternative translation of the title of the Buddha's first teaching better conveys the need to take up and practice the Buddha's valuable insights, yet also to experiment with, modify, and improve them.