CONNECTING SECULAR BUDDHISTS WORLDWIDE
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Book Launch for “When Stuck Happens”
Secular Buddhist Network’s Daily Life Practice Group is pleased to launch Tuwhiri’s newest book, When stuck happens: How we get caught, soften, and come back to life, by Cathryn Jacob.
Four Experiences of the Present
Jan Bover discusses four highly distinct ways of living and experiencing the present, although the boundaries between them are blurred and the transition from one to another is always gradual, never abrupt.
The Chair With My Name On It
Petero Wamala's fictional story about an older man's relationship to a chair offers a valuable lesson on the suffering we experience from a certain form of attachment.
Action Tames Anxiety
Piero Falci urges us to integrate our mindfulness meditation practice with sustained engagement and political activism.
New Mindfulness-Based Ethical Living (MBEL) Courses Available for English Speakers
Registration is now open for the first English language courses of the revised version of the Mindfulness-Based Ethical Living (MBEL) course.
Introducing the Daily Life Practice Group
Marc Symons and Sharon Tobias discuss a new SBN online group that focuses on how we can bring mindfulness to our daily life activities.
SBN’s Daily Life Practice Group
SBN has created a new online group, called the Daily Life Practice Group. The focus of the group will be to share insights and experiences from practicing during daily life.
The Judge in the Room (and why it is important)
Jeffrey Fracher encourages practitioners to embrace a morality based on mindfulness, compassion, and the Middle Way between rigid absolutism and nihilism.
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.
War Journal
As a secular dharma practitioner, Carmel Shalev reflects on her experiences living in Israel during a time of war.
Taking the Wheel: A Secular Buddhist Approach
Alan Bodnar explains how mindfulness can mitigate the impact of the "self-driving system", our tendency to be reactive.
Secular Buddhism and Mindfulness Based Ethical Living
Mike Slott discusses the relationship between a secular approach to the dharma and Mindfulness Based Ethical Living (MBEL).
Stephen Batchelor’s Dharma Talk on Mindfulness of the Body, and a Few Reflections
Karsten Struhl discusses a recent dharma talk by Stephen Batchelor on mindfulness of the body at the Community Meditation Center in New York City.
We Need Mindfulness and Social Engagement
Piero Falci argues that inner peace remains elusive in a world grappling with significant challenges, that both mindfulness and social engagement are essential.
Exploring Awareness During Daily Life
Marc Symons discusses how the practice of receptive awareness enables us to be more mindful and less reactive off the cushion and in our daily lives.
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