Our desire for passion

http://zennist.typepad.com/zenfiles/2015/08/our-desire-for-passion.html

AUGUST 10, 2015

Our desire for passion

The first noble or aryan truth (satya) is suffering.  The first noble truth is also the Five Aggregates (skandhas) consisting of corporeality, feeling, perception, volitional formations and sensory consciousness which, incidentally, are said to be previous karma according to the Buddha.

'Buddhism New' Secular Buddhism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22C1sGbE-XE

'Buddhism New' Secular Buddhism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqUENu4o-fM

Trauma & Contemplative Practice: Mahayana Buddhism and Trauma

Harvard Divinity School

Published on Jun 22, 2015

Trauma & Contemplative Practice: Exploring the Territory took place at Harvard Divinity School on May 1–2, 2015.

Tricycle: What's Ethics Got to Do with It? The misguided debate about mindfulness and morality

http://www.tricycle.com/blog/whats-ethics-got-do-it

May 14, 2015

What's Ethics Got to Do with It?

The misguided debate about mindfulness and moralityRichard K. Payne

As mindfuness has made greater inroads into public life—from hospitals, to schools, to the workplace—its growing distance from Buddhist thought and practice has become a hotly contested issue. Is mindfulness somehow deficient because it lacks Buddhist ethics, and should Buddhist ethics be replicated in mindfulness programs and workshops?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRDi7JpB8Pw&list=PL1C7C1A7B5BE4CAD0

The Conscious Universe - B. Alan Wallace

 

Published on May 20, 2012

Recorded at Unity Church, Santa Barbara, CA , Jan. 16, 2008
The Conscious Universe: Where Buddhism and Physics Converge

Physicists have long assumed that the universe is fundamentally composed of matter and energy and that life and consciousness are accidental byproducts of configurations of matter. But a growing number of distinguished physicists are now suggesting that consciousness may play a much more fundamental role in nature than scientists previously believed. In this lecture Alan Wallace will review some of the most provocative theories presented by such leading physicists as John Wheeler, Stephen Hawking, and Andre Linde that challenge many of the materialist assumptions based on outdated 19th-century physics.

http://www.alanwallace.org

Please visit http://www.sbinstitute.com/ for more information.

 

Andrew Holecek - The Now and Future of Buddhism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsNOKzEJ6E

Andrew Holecek - The Now and Future of Buddhism 

 Published on Feb 28, 2015

Andrew Holecek discusses 12 important considerations for the future of Buddhism.

From the Fourth Turning Media Program: http://fourthturningbuddhism.com/prog...

Buddhism is a Religion:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2014/04/buddhism-is-a-religion-a-guest-post-by-dr-david-brazier-dharmavidya.html

Buddhism is a Religion:

April 3, 2014 by Justin Whitaker 44 Comments

Editor’s note: It is a great honour to introduce this essay by Dharmavidya, Dr. David Brazier. As regular readers will know, I am interested in the question of concepts and how they are used in our study of things (or processes?) like Buddhism. When we call Buddhism a “philosophy”, what does that mean? Well, what do we mean by “philosophy” and what do we mean by “Buddhism”? I explored the question last fall in Buddhism: religion or philosophy? and returned to some of the central issues in my recent post about the Owen Flanagan talk, the Stephen Batchelor and Ajahn Brahmali debate, and the first week of Buddhism and Modern Psychology course. This piece challenges a lot of the lean I often have toward Buddhism as a philosophy, or perhaps rather complements that lean with an appropriate lean in the opposite direction, toward all of the things and people I sometimes look past an around in my search for the meanings of Buddhist terms and concepts. So, without further adieu, I give you, Buddhism is a Religion:

The Buddhist theory of Truth

http://lotusinthemud.typepad.com/sujatin/2014/11/the-buddhist-theory-of-truth-dharmavidya.html

The Buddhist theory of Truth

Thursday Nov 20 | Lotusinthemud, by Dharmavidya

 

I was asked does Buddhism have a theory of truth and, if so, what is it? The quick answer is yes, it does, and Buddha knows. Let's unpack this

New Scientist : The great illusion of the self

http://www.newscientist.com/special/self?cmpid=ILC%7CNSNS%7C2014-10-GLOBAL-homepageteaserabovempu%7Ctopcolumnteaser&utm_medium=ILC&utm_source=NSNS&utm_campaign=HomepageteaseraboveMPU&utm_content=topcolumnteaser

The Great Illusion of the Self

As you wake up each morning, hazy and disoriented, you gradually become aware of the rustling of the sheets, sense their texture and squint at the light. One aspect of your self has reassembled: the first-person observer of reality, inhabiting a human body.

As wakefulness grows, so does your sense of having a past, a personality and motivations. Your self is complete, as both witness of the world and bearer of your consciousness and identity. You.

This intuitive sense of self is an effortless and fundamental human experience. But it is nothing more than an elaborate illusion. Under scrutiny, many common-sense beliefs about selfhood begin to unravel. Some thinkers even go as far as claiming that there is no such thing as the self.

In these articles, discover why "you" aren’t the person you thought you were. 

full article

A SPIRITUALITY FOR THE BARELY RELIGIOUS

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2014/10/a-spirituality-for-the-barely-religious-a-meditation-on-the-currents-of-a-new-humanism.html?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=monkeymind_111014UTC031108_daily&utm_content=&spMailingID=47377598&spUserID=OTYyOTA4NTcwMTUS1&spJobID=561289874&spReportId=NTYxMjg5ODc0S0

A SPIRITUALITY FOR THE BARELY RELIGIOUS

A Meditation on the Currents of a New Humanism
Oct 26th, by James Ford

“Religion and Memory”, an interview with Alexandra Grieser

http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/religion-and-memory-an-interview-with-alexandra-grieser/

“Religion and Memory”, an interview with Alexandra Grieser

 The Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions’ 3rd Annual Conference centred on the topic of “Religion and Remembering”, and while at this conference Chris has the pleasure of speaking with Professor Alexandra Grieser (Trinity College Dublin) on this intriguing topic.

Interview

Europeanizing the Buddha and Constructing a World Religion

http://michaeljaltman.net/2014/07/02/europeanizing-the-buddha-and-constructing-a-world-religion/

Europeanizing the Buddha and Constructing a World Religion

The Buddha, as many in the West understand him, was invented in the nineteenth century, says Donald Lopez.

Teaching Ethics and/in the World Religions Paradigm

http://www.equinoxpub.com/blog/2014/08/teaching-ethics-andin-the-world-religions-paradigm/

Teaching Ethics and/in the World Religions Paradigm

Posted on August 13, 2014 by mattsheedy

No One Special to Be

http://www.tricycle.com/dharma-talk/no-one-special-be

No One Special to Be

Escaping the prison of your own self-imageEzra Bayda

The Guardian: Is Buddhism a religion? and more

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2013/oct/07/is-buddhism-a-religion

 

Michael McGhee, theguardian.com, Monday 7 October 2013 09.00 BST

Is Buddhism a religion?

In the first part of a new series, we examine why many consider Buddhist practices to be philosophical rather than religious

 

 

Also :

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/finding-respite-anxiety-orthodoxy

Buddhism as respite from the anxiety of orthodoxy

Michael McGhee: Is Buddhism a religion, part 2 : Christianity and its need for 'believers' has profoundly shaped ideas about religious life
 

 

Also

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2013/oct/21/humanism-needs-spirituality-buddhism

 Humanism needs spirituality

Is Buddhism a religion?, part 3: Buddhists seek to discover the conditions for the possibility of wisdom and virtue

 

 

Also

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/28/buddhism-pursuit-self-knowledge

The Buddhist pursuit of self-knowledge

Is Buddhism a religion?, part 4: Bodhi is the condition of being awake. But is this a metaphor that can find human embodiment

 

 

Also

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/04/buddhism-luminous-mind-buddha

What the luminous mind of the Buddha shows us

Is Buddhism a religion?, part 5: The idea of awakening does not offer an escape from self, but a way to attend to its nature

 

Also

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/buddhism-values-within-secular-humanism

Can values come from within?

Is Buddhism a religion, part 6: Secular humanism, Christianity and Buddhism have differing views about the source of human goodness

NYT: What does Buddhism Require ?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/what-does-buddhism-require/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

The Stone

What Does Buddhism Require?

By GARY GUTTING

April 27, 2014, 8:00 pm

This is the fifth in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Jay L. Garfield, who has taught philosophy at several universities and is currently the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He is at work on a book called “Engaging Buddhism: Why Buddhism Matters to Contemporary Philosophy.”