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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies is a mission-driven and community-supported 501(c)(3) educational non-profit organization in the rural town of Barre, Massachusetts. Founded in 1990 by renowned meditation teachers Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg to integrate Buddhist study and practice, BCBS offers programs that support beginners through experienced practitioners in cultivating wisdom, deepening practice, and building community.

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  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2011

What Feels Right about Right Action?

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Insight Journal -- Nov 10 2011 edition What Feels Right about Right Action? by Jake Davis Is there a right way to live? What is it? And how could we know? Questions about how we should live are central for all of us, and central as well to the teachings of the Buddha in the early Pali dialogues. The cultivation of mindfulness is described in these texts as a means of developing wisdom.
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  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2011

Study & Practice with Nāgārjuna’s Dharma

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Insight Journal -- Sept 11 2011 edition Study & Practice with Nāgārjuna's Dharma A conversation with Jay Garfield Distinguished scholar Jay Garfield is Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, taught at BCBS October 29, 2011. ... His translations of the texts of Nāgārjuna are among the most well-respected in English. Nāgārjuna is known as the founder of the Madhyamaka tradition... and is considered so influential in later traditions that he is known by some as the "second Buddha."
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  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2011

We Are Constructed Through Metaphor

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Insight Journal -- Aug 13 2011 edition We Are Constructed Through Metaphor by Arnold Kozak While mindfulness meditation shows us that language pervades our mental experience, some of those who analyze human experience have long felt there was even more to it than that. Recent analyses of language suggest that metaphor is not just a type of language use but the very structure of language—and therefore thought—itself.
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  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2011

Did the Buddha Teach Satipatthāna?

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