Secular Buddhist Network
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • SECTIONS & TOPICS
    • All Pages, Topics & Search
    • The Network
    • Secular Buddhism
    • Creating Community
    • Courses & Retreats
    • Meditation
    • Books & Talks
    • Debate & Dialogue
    • Social Engagement
    • Contributors
  • TUWHIRI
  • DONATE
  • NEWSLETTER
  • CONTACT
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • SECTIONS & TOPICS
    • All Pages, Topics & Search
    • The Network
    • Secular Buddhism
    • Creating Community
    • Courses & Retreats
    • Meditation
    • Books & Talks
    • Debate & Dialogue
    • Social Engagement
    • Contributors
  • TUWHIRI
  • DONATE
  • NEWSLETTER
  • CONTACT
sea stones 3

An interview with David Edwards on corporate media bias, political activism, and meditation

SBN interviewed David Edwards, the co-editor of the UK-based media watch site Media Lens and author of several books. David discussed his critique of corporate media bias and how political activists can make a real difference by focusing on being, not just on doing; on learning to truly live and feel, rather than solely on external change.

Read More 3
Earthrise 1000×700

Science, meditation, emotion, creativity

Commenting on the English novelist Phillip Pullman’s interview with the New Scientist journal, Ramsey Margolis urges us to to develop a creative, imaginative approach to the dharma so that we can respond to the issues we’re facing today as living beings on this planet: climate emergency, social inequality and exclusion, species extinction (including our own), and much more.

Read More 0
sky

Creating sangha: a secular meditation group in Hamilton, New Zealand

There is now a secular meditation group in Hamilton, New Zealand. The group will be meeting in-person every Monday night at 6:15 pm at the local library.

Read More 0
meditation 2

Participants needed for meditation study

Despite its increasing popularity, there is much we do not know about how people practice meditation, including the optimal amount or ‘dose’ associated with particular outcomes. Consider joining a study to help researchers learn more about the impact of meditation.

Read More 0
note book

Why Buddhism is NOT a science of the mind: a review of Evan Thompson’s ‘Why I am not a Buddhist’

Bernat Font provides a summary and review of Evan Thompson’s recent book, ‘Why I am not a Buddhist’. While criticizing key concepts in ‘Buddhist modernism’, Thompson asserts that, at its best, Buddhism can challenge our excessive confidence that science explains what the world really is like while offering a radical critique to our narcissistic concern with the self.

Read More 1
wall

Take on the challenge of the unknown

We have to choose between the freedom that is the condition of an open, awakened mind or to defend any kind of orthodoxy, traditional or not. If we choose the former, we need a wisdom that is capable of capturing every moment of wonder and in the next instant letting it go without any sense of regret or bewilderment.

Read More 0
meditation

Integrating contemplative practice into life

To integrate contemplative practice into life requires more than becoming proficient in techniques of meditation. It entails the cultivation and refinement of a sensibility about the totality of your existence—from intimate moments of personal anguish to the endless suffering of the world.

Read More 0
water 8

Swimming against the stream

Our challenge is to remain lucid, aware, and present. This is Gotama’s injunction and one of his main teachings. To understand this reality means, in traditional Buddhist terms, to understand the middle way, emptiness and not-self. It means entering the stream of the river of life to go against the current.

Read More 0
buddha

Touching the earth: exploring a new, secular self-help mindfulness group approach

Touching the Earth groups aspire to treat participants as equals, where no one is paid to lead or facilitate, and each participant takes responsibility for cultivating their own path and for supporting others in cultivating theirs. The basic format involves meditation, journaling one’s meditation experience, and then exploring the meditation in triads.

Read More 2
silver birch

Meditating in a secular world

Meditative practice enables us to develop a more present, lucid and conscious connection with what surrounds us, in the precise moment and place where we find ourselves. Meditative practice does not take us beyond that present moment in its totality. If anything, it leads us deeper, to union with it.

Read More 1
Newer
123
Older

EXPLORE BY SECTION

  • THE SB NETWORK
  • SECULAR BUDDHISM
  • CREATING COMMUNITY
  • COURSES & RETREATS
  • DEBATE & DIALOGUE
  • MEDITATION
  • BOOKS & TALKS
  • SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
  • ALL TOPICS
  • TUWHIRI BOOKS

AUTHORS

  • STEPHEN BATCHELOR
  • WINTON HIGGINS
  • ALL CONTRIBUTORS

SEARCH THE SITE

RECENT POSTS

  • SBN’s online group meets for the first time

    SBN’s online group meets for the first time

  • Readers’ meeting for Creative Dharma

    Readers’ meeting for Creative Dharma

  • Dave Smith’s Buddhist Recovery Online Class and Community

    Dave Smith’s Buddhist Recovery Online Class and Community

  • Healing together

    Healing together

  • Tuwhiri to publish new book, ‘Love you: public policy for intergenerational wellbeing’

    Tuwhiri to publish new book, ‘Love you: public policy for intergenerational wellbeing’

  • SB NETWORK
  • CREATING COMMUNITY
  • SECULAR BUDDHISM
  • COURSES & RETREATS
  • MEDITATION
  • DEBATE & DIALOGUE
  • BOOKS & TALKS
  • SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
  • MAP
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.   Website by Fastnet Group
We collect cookies and keep all personal data securely. If you don't want your cookies collected just click "No thank you". Click to read our privacy policy. OkNo Thank YouRead our Privacy Policy