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Insight Journal Articles by Author

Lila Kate Wheeler and Lama Rod Owens

  • Satipatthana in Dialogue with Suffering and Oppression

Sebene Selassie and Brian Lesage

  • A Conversation about Cultural Spiritual Bypassing

Willa Thaniya Reid and Elizabeth Day

  • Five Spiritual Faculties

Shinshu Roberts

  • Being Time

Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia

  • "Seeing" the Āsavas
  • A Builder of Bridges
  • A Simple Matter of Choice?
  • The Experience of Feeling (Insight into the Aggregates)
  • The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
  • The Last Stronghold of Self
  • There's More to Giving Than We Think

Bhikkhu Anālayo

  • A Conversation with Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Consciousness and Dependent Arising
  • Craving and dukkha
  • Cultivating the Brahmavihāras
  • Death Contemplation
  • Dependent Arising
  • Food and Insight
  • Mindfully Facing Climate Change - Part 1: Relating to the Earth
  • Mindfully Facing Climate Change - Part 2: An Ethics of the Mind
  • Mindfully Facing Climate Change - Part 3: Liberation of the Mind
  • Mindfully Facing Climate Change - Part 4: Walking the Path
  • Mindfulness in Different Buddhist Traditions
  • On Time
  • Rebirth and the West
  • The Challenge of Pain
  • The Dynamics of Theravāda Insight Meditation
  • The Five ‘Fingers’ of Name
  • The Four Assemblies and Theravāda Buddhism
  • The Influxes and Mindful Eating
  • The Nibbāna Interview
  • The Potential of Pleasant Feelings
  • The Underlying Tendencies
  • Vedanā Part 1: Addressing Views and Clinging at the Source
  • Vedanā Part 2: Addressing Views and Clinging at the Source
  • Vipassanā, the Three Characteristics, and the First Satipatthāna
  • What About Neutral Feelings?

Lila Kate Wheeler, Katy Wiss, and JD Doyle

  • Taking Freedom to Extremes: Teachings for Responsible Social Action

Kristy Arbon

  • Killing Me Softly with Dharma

Steve Armstrong

  • Practicing Your Way Out of Doubt, Synthesizing Styles, and the Underground Abhidhamma

Harvey Aronson

  • Working with Anger

James Austin

  • How Does Meditation Train Attention?

Pamela Ayo Yetunde

  • Encountering and Practicing Buddhism in Integrated Sanghas

Martine Batchelor

  • Breaking Free with Creative Awareness
  • Lights Upon the Path: Great Faith, Great Courage, Great Questioning
  • The Busier You Are, The Slower You Should Go

Stephen Batchelor

  • After Buddhism
  • Freedom Through Not Knowing
  • The Buddha’s Last Word: Care

Stephen & Martine Batchelor

  • Very Good Dharma Friends

Tony Bernhard

  • Unburdened With Duties & Frugal In Our Ways

Toni Bernhard

  • Deep Dukkha

Kevin Berrill

  • Looking in the Mirror

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  • A Question of Skill
  • A Verb for Nirvana
  • All About Change
  • Food for Awakening: The Role of Appropriate Action
  • Freedom from Buddha Nature
  • Getting Out of the Romantic Gate
  • Getting the Message
  • Going for Refuge
  • Mindfulness Defined: Street Smarts for the Path
  • One Tool Among Many: The Place of Vipassana in Buddhist Practice
  • Perennial Issues
  • Putting Down the Burden
  • The Arrows of Thinking
  • The Essence of Dhamma
  • The Not-Self Strategy
  • The Path of Concentration and Mindfulness
  • Truths with Consequences

Santikaro Bhikkhu

  • The Investigation of What Is Important: The Second Factor of Awakening

Pannavati Bhikkhuni

  • Coming Clean on Diversity and Staying in Love with Practice

Bhikkhu Bodhi

  • Climbing to the Top of the Mountain
  • Teaching Buddhism in America

Sylvia Boorstein

  • Life is a Retreat
  • The Pāramis: Heart of Buddha's Teachings and Our Own Practice

Leigh Brasington

  • Emptiness and Freedom
  • Instructions for Entering Jhāna
  • Jhānas, Lucid Dreaming, and Letting There Be Just Seeing in the Seeing
  • Sharpening Mañjuśrī's Sword

Shaila Catherine

  • Distraction: Strategies for Overcoming Distracting Thoughts
  • Jhāna Practice and True Happiness
  • Mettā: What It Is, What It Isn't

David Chernikoff

  • Going Forth

Mark Coleman

  • Only the Mountain Remains: Practicing in Nature

Charles Creekmore

  • Mu Soeng and the Evolution of the BCBS Library

Jake Davis

  • From Burma to Barre
  • What Feels Right about Right Action?

Ruth Denison

  • Bowing to Life Deeply

Sarah Doering

  • In This World, Hate Never Yet Dispelled Hate
  • Simply Rest in Knowing
  • The Five Spiritual Powers

Rosalyn Driscoll

  • Contemplative Practice in Dharma and Art: Attention, Sensation, and Transformation

William Edelglass

  • Cultivating Bodhicitta
  • “When I Could Do Nothing”: Buddhism and the Practice of Poetry in a Time of Pandemic

Jack Engler

  • Practicing for Awakening
  • Practicing for Awakening Part 2
  • Seeking the Seeker

Jean Esther

  • Generating Spiritual Friendship: Reflections from a Gray Haired Mentor

Christina Feldman

  • Dependent Origination
  • Insight is Liberating Only If It is Lived
  • Making a Joyful Effort
  • Seeing the Wheel, Stopping the Spin
  • Stillness and Insight

Paul Fleischman

  • Tapas
  • The Buddha Did Not Teach Buddhism
  • The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism

Lynette Monteiro & Frank Musten

  • Buddhist Roots & Ethics

Gil Fronsdal

  • Natural Buddhism

Issho Fujita

  • A Tiny Dot in a Vast Universe
  • The Aṭṭhaka-vagga of the Sutta Nipata
  • Zazen Is Not the Same as Meditation

Paul Fulton

  • Insecurity, Self-Criticism, and Impermanence
  • Māna: Conceits of the Self
  • Meditation and the Therapist

Jay L. Garfield

  • Study & Practice with Nāgārjuna’s Dharma
  • What Does No-Self Really Mean?

Christopher K. Germer

  • Mindfulness in Buddhism & Psychology
  • What Is Mindfulness... And Why Is It Important to Therapists?

Joseph Goldstein

  • A Simple Turning in Place: Forty Years in the Dharma
  • Fear, Pain ...and Trust
  • Freeing the Mind
  • How to Understand
  • Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
  • To the Forest for Refuge

Trudy Goodman

  • Sharing What You Love

Paula Green

  • A Beautiful Paradox
  • Dharma on the Front Lines: Finding a Path

Susan Kaiser Greenland

  • Mindfulness for Children

Rita Gross

  • True & False: Dharma After the Western Enlightenment

Guo Gu

  • Silent Illumination

Rick Hanson

  • Mind Changing Brain Changing Mind: The Dharma and Neuroscience
  • Neuro-Bhavana: A Video Series with Rick Hanson

Gavin Harrison

  • Flying in the Face of Death

Chip Hartranft

  • Did the Buddha Teach Satipatthāna?

Maria Heim

  • Love and Compassion in the Visuddhimagga

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  • A History of the BCBS Garden
  • Ajahn Thanissaro Talks and Guided Meditations
  • BCBS Published Book: Older and Wiser
  • Bhikkhu Anālayo on Respecting the Different Buddhist Traditions
  • Bhikkhu Anālayo to live at BCBS
  • Fall Harvest
  • Featured Course Widget Box 1
  • Featured Course Widget Box 2
  • Featured Course Widget Box 3
  • June 2017 Garden Update from Dawn King
  • New Cottages Underway
  • New Executive Director
  • Online Offering from Bhikkhu Anālayo - Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
  • Pannavati Bhikkhuni at BCBS
  • Poetry Written at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
  • Salad, Slugs and a Porcupine
  • Solar Hot Water for Meditation Hall
  • Solar Panels Installed On Farmhouse
  • Sponsor a Garden Bed
  • Statements from the Board Chair and Executive Director
  • Support the Dharma, Support One Another
  • Welcome Sage and Pat!

Oren Jay Sofer

  • The Inherently Relational Nature of the Buddhist Path

Marilyn Judson

  • Lessons from an Illness

Ani Jutima

  • Full Ordination for Nuns Restored in Sri Lanka

Rajesh Kasturirangan

  • Buddhism, Body, Mind-Problem?
  • MIT Meets the Monastery
  • The Emptiness of Concepts

Justin Kelley

  • The BCBS Model Goes to India

Myoshin Kelley

  • Finding Our Place

Anne Carolyn Klein

  • Grounded by the Earth

Mirka Knaster

  • Honoring a Life & Legacy in the Dhamma: Mirka Knaster on Munindra

Koshin and Chodo

  • Not Knowing, Bearing Witness, & Compassionate Action

Arnie Kozak

  • We Are Constructed Through Metaphor

Greg Kramer

  • A Whole-Life Path: A Layperson’s Immersive Approach to the Noble Eightfold Path
  • Deep Listening: An Interview with Gregory Kramer
  • Dharma Contemplation: Soaking Ourselves in the Words of the Buddha
  • The Truth of Interpersonal Suffering

Brian Lesage

  • The Convergence of Vedanā, Our Mammalian Physiology, and Awakening

Narayan Liebenson

  • Cultivating Equanimity
  • Speech as Skillful Means
  • What Can I Learn From This?

Michael Liebenson Grady

  • Waking Up In Relationships
  • Working With Fear

Narayan & Michael Liebenson Grady

  • Investigation: Listening as Deeply as We Possibly Can

Jessica Locke

  • Living Our Histories, Shaping Our Futures: Buddhist Practice and Anti-Racist Education for White People

Sumi Loundon

  • Teaching Meditation to Children and Beginners

David Loy

  • Bursting the Bubbles
  • The Many Faces of Nonduality
  • The Three Institutional Poisons: Challenging Collective Greed, Ill Will, & Delusion

Joanna Macy

  • The Wings of the Bodhisattva

Kamala Masters

  • Sharing a Vision of Practice

Stephen Mckay

  • Development Along the Path: Nirvana, Numinous Experience, and Emptiness

Ken McLeod

  • How is the Medium Changing the Message?

Margo McLoughlin

  • The Crow-Birth: A Jātaka Story
  • The Good Sal Tree: Bhadda-Sala Jataka, No. 465

Karin L. Meyers

  • Climate, Corona, and Collapse: The Dharma was Made for these Times

Jay Michaelson

  • The Evolving Sangha

Lynette Monteiro

  • Diversity Assumptions, Implicit Values, and Seeking Refuge

Bill Morgan

  • Resistance in Meditation

Mark Muesse

  • Taking Responsibility for Our Thoughts: Reflections on the Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta

Winnie Nazarko

  • Long Retreats, Selfie Sticks, and the Five Faculties
  • The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony

Zoe Newman

  • Vipassana in Snow White: A Fairy Tale Jataka Story

Susan O'Brien

  • Mindfulness

Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara

  • It's About How to Live

Andrew Olendzki

  • A Comprehensive Matrix of Constructed Experience
  • A Face So Calm
  • A Mother's Blessing
  • A Protestant Buddhism?
  • A Tree Called Steadfast (Anguttara Nikaya 6.5.54)
  • A Wish of Lovingkindness
  • Advice to a Dying Man
  • An Organic Spirituality
  • Attached to Nothing
  • Beaten Like A Thief
  • Beyond Joy and Sorrow
  • Breaking the Cycle (Brāhmaṇa Saṃyutta [SN 7.2.2])
  • Buddha in the Forest (Samyutta Nikaya 7:18)
  • Cherish the Nuns
  • Crossing the Rohini (Therāgāthā 527-9)
  • Cutting the Stream: The Shorter Discourse on the Cowherd (Majjhima 34)
  • Dedicated to Dhamma
  • Dhammapada 13
  • Dharma Rain
  • Directed and Undirected Meditation (Satipatthana Samyutta 47.1.10)
  • Do It!
  • Even Once!
  • Evolving Beyond Delusion
  • Exploring New Approaches: The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
  • Free of Fear
  • Fully Quenched
  • Healing or Harming
  • Healing the Wounds of the World
  • Here and Now
  • Interconnected...Or Not?
  • Irresistible Force (Saṃyutta Nikāya 3.3.5)
  • Itivuttaka 3:7
  • Kama Sutta
  • Keeping the Wheel Rolling
  • King Pasenadi Goes on a Diet (Samyutta Nikāya 3:13)
  • Let the Wilderness Serve! (Saṃyutta Nikāya 6.2.3)
  • Like Moths to the Flame (Udāna 6.9)
  • Lions in the Wilderness
  • Making the Best of It
  • Mapping the Mind
  • Māra Meets His Match (Samyutta Nikāya 1.5.2)
  • Māra Rebuffed
  • Meditation on the Elements (Majjhima Nikaya 62)
  • Metta in Anguttara Nikaya
  • Metta in Other Suttas
  • Metta Sutta Verse 1
  • Metta Sutta Verse 10
  • Metta Sutta Verse 2
  • Metta Sutta Verse 3
  • Metta Sutta Verse 4
  • Metta Sutta Verse 5
  • Metta Sutta Verse 6
  • Metta Sutta Verse 7
  • Metta Sutta Verse 8
  • Metta Sutta Verse 9
  • Mind and Brain
  • Mindfulness of Breathing: Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118)
  • No Greater Contentment: The Poem of Bhuta (Theragāthā 522-526)
  • No Harmful Thought
  • No Hatred for Anyone
  • Outline of Abhidhamma
  • Post Copernicus
  • Practicing the Middle Way: Devadaha Sutta
  • Resourcefulness: a Jataka Story
  • Sāriputta Teaches Dhamma
  • Skinny Gotamī and the Mustard Seed
  • Stealing the Scent (Saṃyutta Nikāya 9:14)
  • Talking with Andrew Olendzki About His New Roles
  • Teaching and Confusing the Dharma
  • The Blooming Lotus (Theragāthā 700 & 701)
  • The Call of the Peacocks
  • The Case Against Racism
  • The Context of Impermanence
  • The Distortions of the Mind: Aṅguttara Nikāya 4:49
  • The Foolish Monkey (Samyutta Nikāya 47.7)
  • The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
  • The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
  • The Greatest Happiness
  • The Healing Medicine of Dhamma (Milinda-pañho 335)
  • The Interdependent Arising of Feeling (Insight into the Aggregates)
  • The Lonely Forest Dweller
  • The Moon Among Stars
  • The Moon Released (Theragāthā 871-873)
  • The Net of Brahmā: 62 Flavors of Wrong View (Dīgha Nikāya 1)
  • The Non-Pursuit of Happiness
  • The Parable of the Six Creatures
  • The Radical Buddha
  • The Removal of Grudges
  • The Rock Inscriptions of King Ashoka
  • The Soothing of Grief
  • The Steadfast Family Man (Anguttara Nikaya 5:40 & 3:48)
  • The Tathāgata Is "Truly Gone"
  • The Thorn in Your Heart (Selections from the Attadaṇḍa Sutta)
  • The Visuddhi Magga on the Brahma-Vihāras
  • This World Is Not Yours
  • Three Views of Transience
  • Truth
  • Understanding the Hindrances
  • Upon the Tip of a Needle (Mahā Niddesa 1.42)
  • War and Peace
  • What the Buddha Taught
  • What’s Left of the True Teaching
  • Where the Action Is
  • Whose Life Is This, Anyway?
  • Words Well Said
  • You Call Yourself a Farmer?: Kasibhāradvāja Sutta (SN 76-80)

Lama Rod Owens

  • The Work of Diversity: Getting Messy, Getting Uncomfortable

John Peacock

  • Back to the Source
  • Mindfulness & the Cognitive Process
  • The Buddha Doesn't Do "Cozy"

Tom Pedulla

  • Anatta: A Practical Approach

Corrado Pensa

  • The Unifying Quality of Dharma

Judy Phillips

  • Dharma as Dāna

Erica Pittman

  • Putting Art-Making Back on the Map I: Dharma and Arts Symposium at BCBS
  • Putting Art-Making Back on the Map II: Dharma and Art Symposium at BCBS
  • Putting Art-Making Back on the Map III: Dharma and Arts Symposium at BCBS

Christopher Queen

  • A Fourth Turning of the Wheel? Ambedkar Buddhism

Sharda Rogell

  • Seeing the Truth of Freedom

Larry Rosenberg

  • Body People, Mind People
  • Shining the Light of Death on Life: Maranasati Meditation (Part I)
  • Shining the Light of Death on Life: Maranasati Meditation (Part II)
  • Sitting Just to Sit
  • The Wisdom of the Ordinary Mind

Sharon Salzberg

  • A Day of Practice and Discussion, Inspired by the Maṇgala Sutta
  • Faith: Its Role and Meaning in a Buddhist Wisdom Tradition
  • The Nature of Compassion

Sebene Selassie

  • The Work of Diversity: A Deeper Engagement

Jason Siff

  • Awareness of Thinking: Recollective Awareness Practice
  • Meeting Your Thoughts At a Resting Place
  • The Language We Use to Talk about Meditative Experiences
  • Understanding the Meditative Process

Paul Simons

  • Escaping the Karma of Addiction

Sister Siripaññā

  • Renunciation: The Highest Happiness

Rodney Smith

  • May All Beings Practice Dying

Mu Soeng

  • 2017 Vedana Conference
  • Going Forth: A Buddhist Approach to Retirement & Old Age
  • Urban Hermit: A Different Way of Being in the World

Scott Spencer

  • Bozobots

Claire Stanley

  • Mindfulness for Educators

Susan Stone

  • Caregiving and the Buddha's Way

Ajahn Sucitto

  • A Ripple in a Pond
  • Dhamma as Skillful Kamma
  • Working with Perception

Charlotte Sudhammā

  • A Radiance of Nuns

Ajahn Sundarā

  • It Can Be Very Simple

Chris Talbott

  • A Classical Future: Interview with Insight Journal Editor
  • New rivers, new rafts: The Secular Buddhism Conference

Ñānaponika Thera

  • Alagaddūpama Sutta~The Discourse on the Snake Simile

Christopher Titmuss

  • An Unabashed Enthusiasm for the Here and Now

Sayadaw U Jagara

  • Wise Attention

Sayadaw U Pandita

  • Becoming More Clearly Human

Mark Unno

  • Shin Buddhism

Tai Unno

  • The Working of Boundless Compassion

Various

  • A Discussion Among Psychologists
  • Buddhist Psychology: Classical Texts in Contemporary Perspective
  • The Pilgrims' Experience
  • Theravada in the West

William Waldron

  • The Sixth Sense

Nancy Waring

  • Leaving No Trace

Gay Watson

  • Some (mostly secular) thoughts about Emptiness

Akincano Weber

  • Secular Buddhism: New vision or yet another of the myths it claims to cure?

Matty Weingast

  • The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns

Kate Lila Wheeler

  • Wheels of Fire: The Buddha's Radical Teaching on Process

Jenny Wilks

  • Secular mindfulness: potential & pitfalls

Christopher Willard

  • Teaching Mindfulness to Children

Jan Willis

  • How to Be a Bodhisattva

Carol Wilson

  • Do We Really Believe in Impermanence?
  • Mindfulness: Gateway into Experience

Diana Winston

  • From Self-Judgement to Being Ourselves

Jason Wirth

  • Gary Snyder, Dōgen, and the EcoSangha: The Practice of the Wild in the Anthropocene

Dale S. Wright

  • A Philosophical Assessment of Secular Buddhism

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