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June 2016

June 30, 2016

Evaluating Others: Checking Our Bias

(image credit) So imagine you are driving on autopilot, as we all do much of...

June 23, 2016

Is Meditation Selfish?

(cc) Alan Turkus I have been writing about meditation, spirituality, and inner resources for about...

June 16, 2016

The Spirituality of Service

As we rode home on the bus, I knew that we had made a difference. ...

June 06, 2016

Reading the Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching is the most popular book outside the Bible, with over 100 translations into...

June 01, 2016

PODCAST: After Buddhism, an interview with Stephen Batchelor SN TODAY #9

Episode 9: Stephen Batchelor is a Buddhist teacher and writer, known for his secular or agnostic...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

The Smart Way to Work With Purpose

Series: Find Your Purpose Jerome is desperate. He drags himself to his office job every...

May 19, 2016

Animals, Beings, and the Law

At the beginning of her article “Are Animals ‘Things’?: The law evolves” (Harvard Magazine, March-April...

May 12, 2016

Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self

by Kabir Edmund Helminski. Book Review by DT Strain. Book link in SNS Amazon Shop...

May 05, 2016

Introduction to Insight Meditation

You probably have heard of it under of its many different names, mindfulness meditation, Buddhist...

May 01, 2016

PODCAST: Serenity in Motion. SN Today #8

Episode 8: Many people associate non-attachment, equanimity, or acceptance with passivity or inaction. So how...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Do Our Mental Maps Lead Us Astray?

Series: Evaluating Reality Rationally Written by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Intentional Insights Co-Founder and President. Graphics...

April 25, 2016

The Breath of Awen: Creativity as Spiritual Expression

(cc) skagitrenee Near the end of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the character known simply as...

April 19, 2016

Spirituality and Emotion

(cc) Mike Sinko A spiritual experience can be emotionally powerful. Some have concluded from this...

April 07, 2016

The Yin and the Yang

The yin-yang symbol is technically and more accurately called Taijitu, meaning “supreme ultimate diagrams.” The...

April 01, 2016

PODCAST: The Religion of Nature, an interview with Donald A. Crosby. SN Today #7

Episode 7: Professor of philosophy and author Donald A. Crosby has written many volumes on...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

Learn to Live Intentionally

Wikimedia Fatalism. It is a broader attitude in life, of letting things take their own...

March 17, 2016

I Like Lichens

I like lichens. So do many people. Descriptions of them are full of likeable achievements:...

March 10, 2016

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

Book Review: Pema Chödrön is an American ordained nun of Tibetan Buddhism. At nearly 70...

March 04, 2016

A Spirituality of Mind and Heart

Spirituality is about knowing and connecting with reality, a reality of nature and human beings....

March 02, 2016

PODCAST: Secular Buddhism, an interview with Ted Meisner: SN Today #6, Part 2

Episode 6, Part 2: What is secular Buddhism and how does it relate to spiritual naturalism?...

March 02, 2016

PODCAST: Secular Buddhism, an interview with Ted Meisner: SN Today #6, Part 1

Episode 6, part 1: What is secular Buddhism and how does it relate to spiritual naturalism?...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

Meaning, Purpose, and Civic Engagement Beyond Belief

I remember how in November 2013 my wife (and fellow Intentional Insights co-founder) and I,...

February 19, 2016

Stepping Out of the Cave: The Never-Ending Journey in Search of What is True

(cc) Jarvist Frost In the dystopian world of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the reading of classic,...

February 11, 2016

Caring

In a passage from Chapter 22 of the writings of Chuang-tse, the philosopher Lao Dan...

February 04, 2016

The Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl was a psychiatrist, who founded a school of psychotherapy based on humanity’s...

February 01, 2016

PODCAST: SN Today #5: What is Demeanor Practice?

Episode 5: Have you ever thought about the vibe you’re putting out into the world? Demeanor...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Purpose-Driven Life and Secularism

How can you find purpose and meaning from a secular perspective? Mike meets regularly with...

January 21, 2016

The Evolution of Morality

We know that we carry inside us the history of our bodies—the chemistry and bones...

January 14, 2016

Book Review: “Secular Meditation” by Rick Heller

Guest article by Michelle L. LeBlanc… If you are anything like me, I enjoy a book...

January 07, 2016

New Year, New You

It’s a New Year. Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Some of the more...

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