This a friendly reminder that our third meditation lesson (out of ten) will be held on this Friday, 28th August from 6.30pm onwards at Dalhousie Multi-faith centre. With Metta, Atlantic Buddhist Cultural and Meditation Centre http://www.atlanticbuddhist.com Advertisements

Meta Buddhist Inquiry is starting again on Friday Sept. 4 at the Halifax Central Library. See event on FB at link: https://www.facebook.com/events/858892760868759/ Meta Buddhist Inquiry explores Buddhism from secular, critical, outsider, X-Post-Non, modernist, post-modernist and other contemporary approaches. Meta Buddhist Inquiry is non-denominational, not affiliated with any Buddhist or other religious sects. Buddhists from all traditions… Read More Meta Buddhist Inquiry Starts Again Friday Sept. 4 HFXCL

B. Alan Wallace talks about the Buddhist view of free will, choice, karma, justice, and obtaining liberation. He describes the karmic view of free will as ecological: what you put out, you get back. There is no ‘away.’ What you put into the environment comes back to you eventually. He also discusses these from the view… Read More B Alan Wallace: A Buddhist View of Free Will

Nikki Meyer’s Y12SR, Yoga for Recovery, is one of the most advanced yoga programs for recovery from addiction. She has led the movement to teach yoga as a support for recovery, which has been replicated by other yoga teachers across North America. The following video explains in depth how yoga works with 12 Steps for Recovery… Read More Yoga for Recovery: Nikki Meyers and Y12SR

Bhikkhu Bodhi: “The major threat that I see today lies in the ascendency of a purely utilitarian worldview driven by a ruthless economic system that rates everything in terms of its monetary value and sees everything as nothing more than a source of financial profit. Thus, under this mode of thinking, the environment turns into… Read More Bikhu Bodhi: Conscientious Compassion

I’m back to that same place once again, but this time I figured it out. Yes, it’s “emptiness”, our old friend sunyata. I figured out what it is, for me. It’s a definition that works for me, and I think every Buddhist, if they are so inclined, has to figure out a definition that works… Read More Emptiness as Process