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Dukkha without Tanha: Integrating Buddhist Insights and Neuropsychology

Rick Hanson

Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His six books have been published in 30 languages and include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Just One Thing, Buddha’s Brain,  and Mother Nurture - with over a million copies in English alone. His free newsletters have 220,000 subscribers and his online programs have scholarships available for those with financial needs. He’s lectured at NASA, … [Read more...]

Buddhist Practice, Plant Medicine, and Healing: An Interview with Spring Washam

Spring Washam

Spring Washam is a meditation teacher, author, and visionary leader based in Oakland, California. She is the author of The Spirit of Harriet Tubman and A Fierce Heart. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based healing practices to diverse communities. She is one of the founders and teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center, Oakland, CA.  She received extensive training from Jack Kornfield, is a member of the teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in northern … [Read more...]

The Value of Seclusion

Walt Opie

Walt Opie was first introduced to insight meditation in 1993 and began sitting retreats in 2005. Currently, his most influential teachers include Bhikkhu Anālayo, Joseph Goldstein, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, and Gil Fronsdal. Walt is a graduate of the 2017-2021 IMS Teacher Training Program, as well as Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders program. He has led sitting groups for people in recovery and served as a volunteer teacher in several California prisons. A pdf version of this article can be … [Read more...]

Editor’s Letter: Paradigm Shifts

Eva Seligman

Eva Seligman is a Master of Divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School, where she studies the entanglement of Buddhism and Colonialism. She works as a graduate assistant at BCBS. A pdf version can be downloaded here. In October 2017, I had been working as a middle and high school teacher for over ten years. I imagined that I would be a teacher for the rest of my life. But… things had been feeling off for a while and I couldn’t explain why. I was having increasingly intense mood swings and … [Read more...]

A Dharma Heart for These Times

Thanissara

Thanissara began practice in the Burmese school of U Ba Khin in 1975. She spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun in the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. She has facilitated meditation retreats internationally the last 30 years and has an MA in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy Practice. She is co-founder, with Kittisaro, of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa, and Sacred Mountain Sangha in California, which runs a two-year Dharmapala Training. She has authored several books including  Time … [Read more...]

Going in, reaching out: The Dharma in us and amongst us

Pascal Auclair and Eva Seligman

Pascal Auclair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997, sitting retreats in Asia and America with revered monastics and lay teachers. He has been mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, where he is now enjoying teaching retreats. Pascal teaches in North America and in Europe. He is a co-founder of True North Insight and one of TNI’s Guiding Teachers. He was … [Read more...]

Finding Zen: Strength In The Dharma And The Sword

Cristina Moon

Cristina Moon is a writer, strategist, and Zen priest. She lives and teaches at Daihonzan Chozen-ji, a Rinzai Zen temple in Honolulu. A pdf version of this article can be downloaded here. "A good analogy for zazen," said the Zen priest instructing me in seated meditation, "is early man hunting. Totally still, totally silent, and totally alert. Seeing, hearing, and feeling everything." "And," he continued, after a brief pause, "ready to jump up and kill something." It was January 2018 and I … [Read more...]

All Cops Are Buddhas (ACAB): Stretching our Empathy and Defunding the Police

Katie Loncke

Katie Loncke (they/them) is a longtime activist, Buddhist practitioner of 14 years, and a fan of warm-hearted, unconventional rebellions. A former Co-Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Katie currently serves as a somatic coach helping people — primarily queer, trans, and/or BIPOC — deepen pleasure in their ecologies of intimacy. A pdf version of this article can be downloaded here. “Mercy means to surrender cloaking ourselves from ourselves and experiencing a shared vulnerability … [Read more...]

The Bhara Sutta

Mu Soeng

In “The Bhara Sutta,” Mu Soeng, inspired by the Bhara Sutta, SN 22.22, takes up the image of the oxen as craving, and their oil-tiller as clinging, and presents taking up the burden and putting down the burden. Mu Soeng is Scholar Emeritus at BCBS. He trained in the (Korean) Zen tradition and was a monk for eleven years. He is the author of Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen (Tradition and Teachers); The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World; Trust in Mind: The Rebellion of … [Read more...]

Interdependence and Healing: Natalie Avalos on Practice, Scholarship, and the Liberating Power of Ceremony

Natalie Avalos and Eva Seligman

Natalie Avalos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is currently working on her manuscript titled The Metaphysics of Decoloniality: Transnational Indigeneities and Religious Refusal, which explores urban Native and Tibetan refugee religious life as decolonial praxis. She is a Chicana of Apache descent, born and raised in the Bay Area.  She was interviewed by our graduate intern, Eva Seligman. Eva Seligman is a Master of … [Read more...]

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Insight Journal

2022

In this volume:

Buddhist Practice, Plant Medicine, and Healing: An Interview with Spring Washam

By Spring Washam

Interview

The Value of Seclusion

By Walt Opie

Article

Dukkha without Tanha: Integrating Buddhist Insights and Neuropsychology

By Rick Hanson

Article

Going in, reaching out: The Dharma in us and amongst us

By Pascal Auclair and Eva Seligman

Interview

In Memoriam: Thich Nhat Hanh

By Sallie B. King

Article

Interdependence and Healing: Natalie Avalos on Practice, Scholarship, and the Liberating Power of Ceremony

By Natalie Avalos and Eva Seligman

Interview

The Bhara Sutta

By Mu Soeng

Article

Editor’s Letter: Paradigm Shifts

By Eva Seligman

Article

A Dharma Heart for These Times

By Thanissara

Article

Finding Zen: Strength In The Dharma And The Sword

By Cristina Moon

Article

All Cops Are Buddhas (ACAB): Stretching our Empathy and Defunding the Police

By Katie Loncke

Article

 

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