Faith and Imagination in Dharma Practice: A Seminar with Stephen Batchelor

Instructor(s): Stephen Batchelor

Program Description:

In the course of these two online seminars, Stephen will explore how faith in the Dharma serves to empower the imagination. By disentangling faith from belief and imagination from fantasy, we will consider how their creative tension is a necessary and dynamic feature of the middle way itself. Drawing on a wide range of sources, we will look at faith both in its secular and religious forms, while the imagination will be treated as a crucial dimension of an ethical as well as an artistic life. Each session will include two talks, breakout groups, plenary discussions and periods of meditative reflection. 

About the Instructor(s):
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  Stephen Batchelor

  Stephen Batchelor is a writer, teacher, translator, and artist known for his secular approach to the Dharma. A co-founder of Bodhi College, his books include Buddhism Without Beliefs, Living with the Devil, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, and After Buddhism. His most recent publication, The Art of Solitude, was published by Yale University Press in 2020. He lives in southwest France with his wife Martine.