Bhikkhu Bodhi

Sep 16, 2024 | island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Bhikkhu Bodhi

by Bhikkhu BodhiThe often-quoted discourse of the Buddha, the Kalama Sutta has been described as “the Buddha’s Charter of Free Inquiry,” and though the discourse certainly does counter the decrees of dogmatism and blind faith with a vigorous call for free investigation, it is problematic whether the sutta can support all the positions that have been ascribed to it.

Aug 11, 2024 | mondoweiss.net | Bhikkhu Bodhi

The campuses may be quiet now, during summer recess, but once school resumes in the fall we’re likely to see a revival of last spring’s uprisings, when university students throughout the country gathered to protest their schools’ complicity in Israel’s military assault on the population of Gaza.

Feb 10, 2024 | tricycle.org | Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar |Frederick Ranallo-Higgins |Tracy Cochran |Bhikkhu Bodhi

Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourselfby Tracy CochranShambhala Publications, April 2024, 256 pp., $18.95, paperPresence opens with a broken-down VW bus on a secluded highway in the Midwest.