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A New Paradigm for Science and Religion

Since the time of Galileo, science and religion have increasingly appeared to be at odds, with religion slowly but surely losing the battle, B. Alan Wallace observes. His series presents a paradigm in which science and…

By B. Alan Wallace

Sep 2021

Teachings Reflections

Sweets and Suffering

A Won Buddhist teacher on how we consume suffering and how suffering consumes us

By Dr. Bokin Kim

Nov 17, 2020

Dharma Talks

Material and Spiritual Balance

A central concern of Won Buddhism, one of only a few forms of Buddhism founded since industrialization, is finding the balance between our material and spiritual lives. Dr. Bokin Kim, a Won minister and President of…

By Dr. Bokin Kim

Jul 2020

TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings

Being Content with What We Have

The next thing you buy won’t make you happy, but a different attitude may.

By Koshin Paley Ellison

Summer 2019

Critique

It Needs Saying

Buddhism is not a philosophy, science, psychotherapy, or culture. It is a religion.

By Dharmavidya David Brazier

May 30, 2015

Interviews

Six Questions for B. Alan Wallace

An interview about Buddhism, science, and the nature of mind

Interview with B. Alan Wallace by Tricycle

Dec 18, 2014

Meditation Science

We Are Not Kind Machines

A Radical Rejection of Scientific Buddhism

By lama thaye

Jul 01, 2013

Are we kidding our selves?

In the January 22nd, 2010 Times Literary Supplement, the philosopher Peter Hacker considers Galen Strawson’s book Selves, which at 452 pages seems like a dense and weighty philosophical tome. In his review, Hacker traces the use…

By Tricycle

Aug 18, 2010

David Brooks on “neural Buddhism”

David Brooks discusses the “militant materialism of some modern scientists” then says: Over the past several years, the momentum has shifted away from hard-core materialism. The brain seems less like a cold machine. It does not…

By Tricycle

May 13, 2008

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Right Effort: Understanding an Often Overlooked Mental Discipline on the Eightfold Path

This series will introduce the four mental trainings for overcoming unwholesome states and reaching wholesome ones that can provide the serenity of mind for further progress in concentrative and insight practices.

By Bhante Sanathavihari

Nov 2022

materialism

A New Paradigm for Science and Religion

Sweets and Suffering

Material and Spiritual Balance

Being Content with What We Have

It Needs Saying

Six Questions for B. Alan Wallace

We Are Not Kind Machines

Are we kidding our selves?

David Brooks on “neural Buddhism”

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