“For me, Buddhism is like a living organism. If it is to flourish outside self-enclosed ghettos of believers, it will have to… — Stephen Batchelor Buddhism Copy Share Image
A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity,… — Stephen Batchelor Accepting Copy Share Image
“Much of what animated me in those days I now recognize as the romantic yearnings of an idealistic, alienated, and aimless young… — Stephen Batchelor Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Patience is the specific antidote to anger and hatred. It is an attitude of accepting both the harm caused by others and… — Stephen Batchelor Anger Copy Share Image
“Life is a groundless ground: no sooner does it appear, than it disappears, only to renew itself, then immediately break up and… — Stephen Batchelor Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Every attitude we assume, ever word we utter, and every act we undertake establishes us in relation to others.” — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it… — Stephen Batchelor Accomplished Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future… — Stephen Batchelor Action Copy Share Image
As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the… — Stephen Batchelor Causation Copy Share Image
“Mindful awareness is not presented as a passive concentration on a single, steady object, but as a refined engagement with a shifting,… — Stephen Batchelor Buddhism Copy Share Image
“p. 62 "...meditation… exposes a contradiction between the sort of person we wish to be and the kind of person we are.… — Stephen Batchelor Meditation Copy Share Image
“I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as… — Stephen Batchelor Atheism Copy Share Image
“What lies ahead is revealed to us through our being confronted with possibilities. Our possibilities, however, are not unconditional and infinite but… — Stephen Batchelor Life Copy Share Image
“By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to… — Stephen Batchelor Buddhism Copy Share Image
This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle. — Stephen Batchelor Body Copy Share Image
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic… — Stephen Batchelor Abnegation Copy Share Image
Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out… — Stephen Batchelor Break Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Authority Copy Share Image
The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body… — Stephen Batchelor Body Copy Share Image
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed… — Stephen Batchelor Adopted Copy Share Image
In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all. — Stephen Batchelor Appreciate Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, the tendency to be preoccupied with having, at the expense of losing touch with the dimension of being, is becoming ever… — Stephen Batchelor Life Copy Share Image
“The collapsing of an empire. This changing word moves inexorably on. Thoughts bubble and the stiller the mind the more palpable the… — Stephen Batchelor Change Copy Share Image
Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as… — Stephen Batchelor Buddhism Copy Share Image
A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but… — Stephen Batchelor Approach Copy Share Image
