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Sharon Salzberg

Faith: Its Role and Meaning in a Buddhist Wisdom Tradition

This article is excerpted from a workshop offered by Sharon Salzberg at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies on September 22, 1996. Sharon is writing a book on the subject, to be published by Shambhala. Faith is something very personally meaningful to me. It is something difficult to understand, and it is something that is not often spoken about within the context of a wisdom tradi­tion—especially in the West. The last time I led a program on Faith, I heard people express disquietude, … [Read more...]

A Day of Practice and Discussion, Inspired by the Maṇgala Sutta

These brief comments are extracted from a day-long program at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies on November 14, 1999. The Maṇgala Sutta Sutta Nipāta 258-269 1   1. The teachings in the sutta are about empowerment, in a way, to craft our lives, to make a life that can be in harmony with other things, a life that can be supportive of our deepest values and the reliance on and respect of simplicity. The blessings in the sutta are, of course, expressions of relationships in the … [Read more...]

The Nature of Compassion

This article is excerpted from a talk given at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies on July 27, 1994. My colleague Joseph Goldstein and I just returned from teaching in Boulder, Colorado at the Naropa Institute. Naropa was celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and it was also the twentieth anniversary of our begin­ning to teach in this country. It was a time filled with nostalgia and also a time for a lot of reflection: what have we done over the last twenty years? Have we done what we … [Read more...]

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    • Insight Journal
    • Bhikkhu Anālayo’s Offerings
    • The Daily Sit
    • Freely Offered Dharma
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    • BCBS Publishing
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