Articles

• Articles
• Sitting with Dukkha
• Split Second Decisons
• Dignity and Right Speech
• A Secular Evaluation of Rebirth
• Welcome to Practice Circle: An Update
• Is Scholarship Important?
• Two Issues With Nibbāna
• Listening to the Heart Sutra
• Reflections for Pluralism Sunday
• The Four Noble Truths
• What is the Eightfold Path?
• Buddhas Human and Divine
• Cultivating Compassion
• Out of the Food Chain to Compassion
• Why Do We Keep Practicing?
• Making Peace in my Own Backyard
• On Gutting on Happiness
• What are the Three Marks of Existence?
• Secular Buddhism, Thin and Thick
• Dependent Arising in Context, by Linda Blanchard: A Review
• Gotama and Parfit on the Self
• Fully Know Dukkha: A Personal Experience
• Revisiting Meditation: Week 3
• Buddhist Global Relief
• Revisiting Meditation: Week 2
• On Clinging to Views
• The Whiner's Meditation Guide
• Beyond Praise and Blame
• Revisiting Meditation: Week 1
• On Supramundane Freedom
• Revisiting Meditation: Getting Back on Track
• Metta--Goodwill to All
• Meeting Dharma Buddies on SBA
• On Mundane Freedom
• March 2013 Practice Challenge
• The Footman's Snicker
• A Private Place in a Public Space
• Skillful Versus Unskillful Thinking
• After Buddhism
• Metta and the Ethics of Killing
• The Buddha and Kesakambalī
• Right Speech in This Digital Age
• The Psilocybin Research Team at Johns Hopkins needs your help.
• January 2013 Practice Challenge
• On Subtracting What You Don't Like
• Practice: The Four Strivings
• Practice: Working with the Hindrances
• Strategies of Secular Buddhist Practice
• Social Circle
• Meditating on the Mud Machine
• Jan Ford :: Igniting the Human Imagination
• Crossed Paths in the Dhamma?
• Secular Humanism and Secular Buddhism
• What is Metta?
• At Naḷakapāna: Did the Buddha "Scheme to Deceive"?
• The Buddha's Manifesto on Miracles and Revelation
• Scenes from a Mindfulness Retreat: Experience
• Scenes from a Mindfulness Retreat: Ritual
• Book Review: Donald Lopez on Buddhism and Science
• New Logo and Site Design for the SBA
• Scenes from a Mindfulness Retreat: The Work
• Tribute to Our Mentor and Dear Friend, Jan Ford
• On a Belief that Sends You to Hell
• Scenes from a Mindfulness Retreat: Introduction
• Dr. Rick Hanson presents a FREE seven-part video series "The Compassionate Brain"
• Sister Cece Teaches Qi Gong: Intrasubjective Resonance and the Possible Function of God
• Cankī on Preserving Truth
• Introducing the Practice Circle
• "Occupy Buddhism" Notes from the Buddhist Geeks Conference, 2012
• Body Meditation
• Staying in the Body and Out of the Mind
• Stephen Batchelor and Don Cupitt -- The Future of Religion: a Dialogue
• The Practice of Buddhist Meditation is Not for the Fainthearted
• Who Is The Ultimate Authority?
• SBA: Why We Are The Way We Are
• If Not-Self Then What?
• What is a Secular Buddhist, and What Do They Believe?
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #0 The Taints
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #12 Aging and Death
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #11 Birth
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #10 Becoming
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #9 Clinging
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #8 Craving
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Arising: Table of Contents
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #7 Feeling
• Buddhism Vs. Neuroscience
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #6 Contact
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #5 Use of the Six Senses
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #4 Name and Form
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #3 Consciousness
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #2 Sankhara
• A Secular Understanding of Dependent Origination: #1 Ignorance
• So What?
• No robes, no ritual, no religion
• What Is Secular Buddhist Practice?
• "This World or the Other": The Contradiction at the Heart of Buddhist Tradition
• Good Faith, Bad Faith
• Directing Wholesome Intentions (Right Intention)
• Being a Mindful, Politically Engaged Buddhist
• Fear and Love
• Renewal
• Loving Kindness Meditation
• Asking the Wrong Questions, and Letting Go of the Unknowable
• Dependent Origination: How did we get into this mess? (John Peacock)
• Religion and Dukkha
• 10th Annual International Scientific Conference for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators
• Thanissaro Bhikkhu's "The Truth of Rebirth" : A Review, Part 3
• Thanissaro Bhikkhu's "The Truth of Rebirth": A Review, Part 2
• Thanissaro Bhikkhu's "The Truth of Rebirth" : A Review, Part I
• The First Watch of the Night
• Playing With Pali: Poking Under the Hood
• What's Your Calling or Purpose in Life?
• What's Burning in the Fire Sermon?
• Report from Wisdom 2.0: Living with Awareness, Wisdom, and Compassion
• Food and Fire in Dependent Origination
• Happiness, The Great Illusion
• Authenticity, Anxiety, and the Revision of the Pali Canon
• On "Nutriment" and Life As Process
• Early Buddhist Discourses (Book Review)
• Mindfulness of The Engaged, Busy Mind
• New Year Resolutions Buddhist Style
• The Double-bind of Guru Devotion
• The Importance of Compassion without Buddhism
• Meditation Only?
• Gautama Buddha: Man or God?
• Buddhism Before the Theravada (Audio, John Peacock) & Comments
• The Ethics of Impermanence
• The Buddha On Love
• This Life Model Became Multiple Lives Model
• Atheism, Existentialism, and Buddhism's Reasons for Living
• The Secret of Happiness
• Buddha's First Sermon
• Letting Go of the Raft
• Why Scientific Scrutiny is Vital to Buddhist Practice
• Four Truths, Four Vows
• The Goal of Practice
• Embracing Joy and Sorrow Fearlessly by Letting Go
• Response to Faith and Belief in Secular Buddhism
• Pop Quiz: What Is Dependent Arising?
• A Letter to Traditional Buddhists
• Knowing When to Speak Up or Shut Up!
• How to Engage Effectively in Controversial Discussions
• Buddhism Without Buddha
• Putting Buddhist Practice Under a Microscope
• The Four Foundations of Secular Buddhism
• Turning the Skeptic Inward
• Making Decisions
• Anatomy of Seeing into Experience: Right View
• Prescriptive, Not Descriptive
• A Mala Prayer
• The Path - Reworded for Modern Practitioners
• Supportive Virtual Buddhist Communities
• Is Secular Buddhism Cherry Picking?
• How an Atheist Practices Secular Buddhism
• A Secular Religion?
• Secular Dharma Semitreat :: Day Three
• No One to be Reborn
• Secular Dharma Semitreat :: Day Two
• Secular Dharma Semitreat :: Day One
• Secular Dharma Semitreat :: Prologue
• What is Dukkha?
• Refuge in the Buddha: Man or Myth?
• Secular Buddhism :: Part One :: What Is It?
• A Reply to B. Alan Wallace's article "Distorted Visions of Buddhism: Agnostic and Atheist"
• Secular Buddhist Association :: UStream Channel