SECULAR DHARMA TALK
What is secular meditation by Martine Batchelor
I would like to suggest that secular Buddhist meditation would be based on multi-choice and complementary elements. It would be practical and consider what works for a person. It would be ordinary in the sense that one could do it while washing the dishes and taking care of the children. It would also be creative and adaptable, helping us to creatively respond to the conditions we encounter in our lives.
Martine Batchelor at the IMS in Barre
Download What is secular meditation as a PDF. This talk was given to the Secular Buddhist Colloquium which was held at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. ⁂
ONLINE DHARMA BOOK READING GROUPS
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PLUS
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SKEPTICAL BUDDHISM
Sam Harris in conversation with Stephen Batchelor
In Sam Harris’s words:
We talk about how practice is about more than meditation, how it requires an intellectual and ethical understanding of one’s life and the world, and on Stephen’s account it’s about living life in a complete and authentic way. We talk about the nature of the freedom that one can reasonably hope for, and about the illusions and abuses of power that one encounters in traditional meditation contexts. We get into areas of disagreement in the second half.
Originally part of his 2019 course, ‘Waking up’, you can watch and listen this conversation here:
It’s worth listening to all the way through as Sam Harris gets more and more perplexed by Stephen’s creative approach to the dharma. ⁂
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