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How Secular Buddhists Can Contribute to Movements for Social Change
Mike Slott discusses the ways in which a secular approach to the dharma offers important resources to political activists.
What am I Cultivating?
Marc Symons discusses how a meditation practice centered on "What am I cultivating?" helps us to discover any reactivity that is arising and brings us in touch with core teachings of Gotama.
The Woman Who Hated Temples but Loved the Silence
Petero Wamala offers a story about love, mindful presence, and kindness.
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.
SBN’s Half-Day Meditation Retreat – February 16, 2025
The Secular Buddhist Network will be offering a half-day, online retreat on February 16, 2025, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm US Eastern Time.
The UN World Meditation Day – Meditating together, connecting globally
Jochen Weber explains why the UN's World Meditation Day was established and how we can use that day to cultivate the path to reducing our own suffering and the suffering in the world.
Exploring mindfulness in new spaces: A Secular Buddhist’s perspective
Sarah Barker explores the ways in which virtual reality (VR) spaces can be used to cultivate mindfulness meditation practices.
SBN’s online meditation groups
The Secular Buddhist Network sponsors two online meditation groups on Sunday for secular Buddhists and those interested in a secular approach to the dharma.
Is your experience true?
Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer discuss how reflective meditation encourages the capacities of being truthful, genuine, and honest about our experiences, and highlight an upcoming retreat after the November election.
Meditation and the process of creation
Petra Hunsche reflects on the relationship between core Buddhist ideas, meditation, and the creative process.
SBN Half-Day Meditation Retreat
The Secular Buddhist Network will be offering a half-day, online retreat on 15 September 2024, from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm US ET.
One Mindful Breath looks great … so where’s the catch?
Ramsey Margolis reflects on the challenge of engaging in the secular dharma as an autonomous practitioner, fully responsible for our actions
The egocentricity of meditation: a critical reflection on motives and practices
Following David McMahan, Wibo Koole argues that mindfulness meditation practice is strongly influenced by the dominant forms of individualism in our culture.
The Elephant in the Dharma Hall
John Peacock argues that for too many, Buddhist practice is a retreat into a quietism that ignores the pressing social and political realities of our time. In his view, politics must find its way into the dharma hall.
A review of David McMahan’s new book, ‘Rethinking Meditation’
In his review of David McMahan's Rethinking Meditation, Mike Slott argues that McMahan's insightful analysis of meditation misses one key factor: the impact of neo-liberal capitalism on contemporary meditative practices.
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