Two of our Samsara - or How to Stop Going Around in Circles course teachers, Yuka Nakamura and Stephen Batchelor,...
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Recommended summer reading 2021
Christoph Köck Susan Blackmore: Consciousness, A very short Introduction, Oxford University Press 2005 “This -...
Sustaining ourselves in 2020
A reflection on the Covid19 pandemic by Martine Batchelor In March 2020 when the virus struck the world and...
Suggested summer reading from the faculty 2020
Hoping to spend time reading in the sunshine this summer? Here are some recent book recommendations from our faculty:...
Black Lives Matter – response from the Bodhi College faculty
"Tenderness is what love feels like in private, justice is what love looks like in public.“ — Cornel West The deaths...
An extract from Embracing Extinction
An essay by Stephen Batchelor Being in lockdown during this pandemic allows us a breathing space to consider the...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) response from Bodhi College
Bodhi College is here to serve the wellbeing of all through the particular contribution we can make through our...
Generosity: On the Economics of Bodhi College
By Stephen Batchelor Bodhi College is a small-scale European educational initiative that offers study and training...
What Supports Personal Integrity?
By Christina Feldman and Willem Kuyken Excerpt from Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology When we live...
Early Buddhism and Epicureanism
Any philosopher’s argument which does not therapeutically treat human suffering is worthless; for just as there is no...
Suggested summer reading from the faculty
Hoping to spend time reading in the sunshine this summer? Here are some recent book recommendations from our faculty (scroll down for German suggestions): Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro: The Island: An Anthology of the Buddha’s Teachings of Nibbana, available for free distribution through Abhayagiri Monastary: www.abhayagiri.org, 2009 This is an anthology of the Buddha’s teachings on Nibbana […]
When ‘to do lists’ meet the meditation hall – my experience bridging the gap
Marjan shares her experience of coordinating the first module of Bodhi College’s Committed Practitioners Programme (CPP) in the Netherlands in March 2018. By Marjan Ossebard, Committed Practitioners Programme (CPP) Module 1 Coordinator So, there I was. The first time in my life to attend a retreat or course, not only as a participant, but also […]