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The Solar Buddha: Early Dharma for Secular Times

Residential Program
Dates: Nov 15, 2015 - Nov 20, 2015
Days: Sunday - Friday
Number of Nights: 5 nights

Instructor(s): Stephen Batchelor

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This program will draw from early Buddhist sources found in the Pali Canon in order to reveal the dharma as a living response to the personal and collective suffering of our times. Central to this project is the reconsideration of the “four noble truths” as “four great tasks”: embracing life, letting go of reactivity, beholding cessation, and cultivating a path. We will focus on those aspects of Buddhism found throughout its different traditions that support a task-based ethics rather than a belief-based metaphysics as the framework for one’s practice. The time will be divided between talks, formal meditation and discussion.

    About the Instructor(s):
  • 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 BeliefsLiving 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.