Joseph Goldstein is a co-founder of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Now in his 70s, he has taken up the practice of writing poetry. In this interview with Amy Gross, originally published in Tricycle: Winter 2023 and shared here with permission, Joseph talks about what the practice of poetry has meant for him. Poetry as/and Practice: A Conversation with Joseph Goldstein You are invited to a conversation with Joseph Goldstein and William Edelglass, BCBS Director of Studies, in … [Read more...]
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Life of a Meditator (Part 2) An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo (February 2023)
February 20, 2023Q: Bhante, in the first part of our interview you described your first encounters with meditation and how you went to Asia and took temporary ordination, until you had to go back to Germany to settle things. What happened next and how did you get ordained again? A: Back in Germany I settled what needed to be done and also worked a bit to replenish my travel funds. Then I went to China, in accordance with my original plan. I studied Chen-style Taijiquan and also spent time at a Chan monastery in … [Read more...]
Life of a Meditator (Part 1) An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo (February 2023)
February 20, 2023Q: Bhante, you spend much of your time in solitary retreat; perhaps you could tell us more about how you came to develop such a strong interest in meditation in the course of your life and also how that relates to your scholarly activities. It would be interesting to know more about your personal history. Maybe we can get started with the question: How did you come into contact with meditation? A: When I was about eight years old, I started practicing Judo, a Japanese martial art. At the … [Read more...]
Buddhist Practice, Plant Medicine, and Healing: An Interview with Spring Washam
August 8, 2022Spring 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...]
Going in, reaching out: The Dharma in us and amongst us
April 28, 2022Pascal 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...]
Interdependence and Healing: Natalie Avalos on Practice, Scholarship, and the Liberating Power of Ceremony
February 16, 2022Natalie 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...]
Technologies of Transformation: The Power of Spiritual Autobiography
July 27, 2021Lama Liz Monson, PhD, is the Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship and has taught at Harvard Divinity School. She currently serves as the managing teacher of Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, a Buddhist meditation retreat center in Springfield, NH. She holds a PhD in Religious Studies with a focus in Tibetan Buddhism and Ethics from Harvard University. She has been studying, practicing, and teaching Buddhism for over thirty years and has been ordained as Lama in the Kagyu tradition of … [Read more...]
Bhikkhu Anālayo and Mu Soeng: A Conversation on Study, Practice, and Monastic Life
July 27, 2021Bhikkhu Anālayo is a scholar-monk and the author of numerous books on meditation and early Buddhism, such as Satipatthāna: The Direct Path to Realization, Perspectives on Satipatthāna, and Satipatthāna Meditation: A Practice Guide. He is a Faculty Member at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, where he has been in residence, since 2017, having retired from being a professor at the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hamburg. His main area of academic research is early … [Read more...]
Wings of Wisdom and Compassion: Lessons of Freedom from Japanese American Internment in WWII
February 17, 2021BCBS graduate intern Sarah Fleming sat down with Duncan Ryūken Williams to discuss what the stories of Japanese American Buddhists who lived through World War II can teach us today about faith, freedom, and interfaith solidarity. On March 21, 2021, BCBS hosted a conversation between Duncan and Chenxing Han that explored some of the themes addressed in this interview. For more information, see Buddhism, Race, and American Belonging: An Asian American View. Duncan Ryūken … [Read more...]
Taking Freedom to Extremes: Teachings for Responsible Social Action
November 1, 2019In December, Kate Lila Wheeler, Katy Wiss, and JD Doyle will be teaching a program at BCBS called “Taking Freedom to Extremes: Teachings for Responsible Social Action.” In this course they will explore the Buddha’s teachings as resources for responding to the challenges and complexities of our social and political lives. Insight Journal conducted the following interview with the teachers via email. Insight Journal: Urgent and unprecedented challenges face human communities all over the world. … [Read more...]
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