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Ira Rifkin

Tricycle Founder’s New Memoir Spotlights Her Personal Struggle to Grow in the Dharma as She Helped Grow American Buddhism 
Ira Rifkin reviews Helen Tworkov's new memoir. Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America.
Secular reflections on the five precepts
At SBN’s monthly discussion group meeting last week, several members of the Secular Buddhism Meets Western Psychology subgroup offered their perspectives on Buddhism’s five precepts, including their relevance to our daily practice.
Secular Buddhism and Buddhist Modernism
Ira Rifkin discusses how the growth of secular Buddhism in recent years is part of a broader trend in society to question orthodox beliefs and to develop new forms of spirituality.
A practitioner’s journey to secular Buddhism: Ira
As a journalist, Ira met some of Buddhism's most important teachers and became interested in the dharma. As an agnostic, he finds a secular approach particularly valuable because there is less emphasis on beliefs and more on what contributes to wellbeing in this life.