by signeglahn | Jan 6, 2021 | Articles
A reflection on the Covid19 pandemic by Martine Batchelor In March 2020 when the virus struck the world and confinement started in France, I felt that all the years of practice we did prepared us for such a strange time. It seemed it could become a time for...
by signeglahn | Jun 29, 2020 | Articles
Hoping to spend time reading in the sunshine this summer? Here are some recent book recommendations from our faculty: Stephen Batchelor: The Art of Solitude, Yale University Press, 2020 Stephens lovely and moving book reminds us of the freedom and sufficiency...
by signeglahn | Jun 29, 2020 | Articles
“Tenderness is what love feels like in private, justice is what love looks like in public.“ — Cornel West The deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks and the manner of their killing has reverberated across the world, sending an urgent call for all of us to...
by signeglahn | May 19, 2020 | Articles
An essay by Stephen Batchelor Being in lockdown during this pandemic allows us a breathing space to consider the tragic absurdity of our existence. By letting the chatter of our fears and anxieties subside, we can hear the inner silence of our soul. As we breathe more...
by signeglahn | Mar 12, 2020 | Articles
Bodhi College is here to serve the wellbeing of all through the particular contribution we can make through our programme. We hope you are keeping safe and well through the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19). We are monitoring the advice of the WHO, the NHS and other...
by signeglahn | Feb 24, 2020 | Articles
By Stephen Batchelor Bodhi College is a small-scale European educational initiative that offers study and training programmes in Early Buddhism for those with an established dharma or mindfulness practice. The college came into being in 2014 through the imagination of...
by upasamkamitva | Jul 30, 2019 | Articles
By Christina Feldman and Willem Kuyken Excerpt from Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology When we live with integrity we are able to ask the question “How does this state of mind and action (speech and bodily action) affect me and others?” We can use the...
by upasamkamitva | Jul 30, 2019 | Articles
By Melani Sampson, BFM participant 2018-19 I live in the UK and work as a psychotherapist, both in the National Health Service (NHS) and my own private practice in London. In the NHS I deliver a slightly adapted Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for patients...
by upasamkamitva | Jul 30, 2019 | Articles
Any philosopher’s argument which does not therapeutically treat human suffering is worthless; for just as there is no profit in medicine when it does not expel diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy when it doesn’t expel the sufferings of the mind....
by upasamkamitva | Feb 7, 2019 | Articles
Caroline Hoffman shares her experience of participating in Bodhi College’s Committed Practitioners Programme (CPP) halfway through the programme. By Caroline Hoffman, Committed Practitioners Programme (CPP) participant I came on the CPP course after a...
by upasamkamitva | Jun 22, 2018 | Articles
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...
by upasamkamitva | Jun 22, 2018 | Articles
“Secular Dharma” is the name of a two-year modular course taught at Bodhi College that I teach with Martine Batchelor, Renate Seifarth and Jenny Wilks. In February this year, we began the second of these courses with twenty-three students from Europe, America and...
by upasamkamitva | Mar 26, 2018 | Articles
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...
by upasamkamitva | Mar 26, 2018 | Articles
By Christina Feldman, Bodhi College Teacher Akincano and I recently launched the first of the CPP modules in the Netherlands with an engaged and lively group from six countries. I am reminded again of what a rich and valuable programme this is with participants...
by upasamkamitva | Jan 15, 2018 | Articles
by Stephen Batchelor My interest in Māra – the Buddhist equivalent of Satan in the Abrahamic religions – began after the publication of Buddhism without Beliefs in 1997. The success of that book led to my being offered a contract by my publisher to write a sequel on...
