CONNECTING SECULAR BUDDHISTS WORLDWIDE
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Book Launch: Living Life on Life’s Terms
Bodhi College is hosting an online event on September 30 to celebrate the publication of a new book, Living Life on Life's Terms, by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor, and Bernat Font.
Exploring a Secular Dharma: SBN’s Online Course
SBN's online course on explores key concepts a secular dharma. Participants in the course will go through the five course modules, discuss the topics in each module with each other, and meet on Zoom every week with the instructor for the course.
Our Suffering Is Not a Private Matter (and what it costs the people standing nearest)
Jeffrey Fracher recounts a friend's experience to highlight how dukkha often "doesn't stay inside us. It moves through us, into the room, and onto whoever happens to be standing closest."
Book Review of Living Life on Life’s Terms: Turning the Wheel of Secular Dharma
Anne-Laure Brousseau reviews a new book by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor, and Bernat Font. The book is based on seminar talks given by the three authors at a Bodhi College course called “Secular Dharma: Study, Practice, Community.”
RAFT to Freedom: setting out together
Cathryn Jacob and Vince Cullen discuss RAFT to Freedom, a peer-led, task-based program grounded in secular Buddhism which begins Sept. 1. It may be especially helpful to those seeking to change harmful cravings, but it is not limited to recovery.
Living life on life’s terms: turning the wheel of secular dharma
Ramsey Margolis introduces a new book from the secular Buddhist publishing imprint, Tuwhiri: Living Life on Life's Terms. The co-authors are Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor, and Bernat Font.
An introduction to secular Buddhism
For those who are curious about or interested in secular Buddhism and want to learn about this relatively new trend within Buddhism, this article will provide a helpful starting point for exploring a secular approach to the dharma.
The Heart Sutra from a Secular Buddhist Perspective
The Heart Sutra is renowned for its central teaching: "Form is emptiness; emptiness is form." In secular Buddhism, this statement does not describe a supernatural realm but points to the insight that all things are impermanent, contingent, and interconnected.
On Taking Sides
Mike Slott argues that Buddhists need to support movements which challenge powerful economic and political elites.
Post Traumatic Growth from a Secular Buddhist Perspective: Things Get a Bit Better
Jourdan Arenson explains how a secular Buddhist perspective offers a realistic approach to dealing with grief.
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.
Living life on life’s terms: turning the wheel of secular dharma
Tuwhiri has launched a Kickstarter campaign to pre-sell their next book – Living life on life’s terms: turning the wheel of secular dharma. This book brings together eighteen talks from the one-year Bodhi College Secular Dharma course, which was taught by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor and Bernat Font.
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.
A Review of Jeffrey Fracher’s The Secular Path to Well-being
Tom Cummings reviews Jeffrey Fracher's book, The Secular Path to Well-being: Practical Dharma for Today. The book offers strategies that provide practical, accessible applications of dharma teachings to the dilemmas we all face.
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.
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