The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBF

Diana Elrod is an active member of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in the Nichiren tradition. She has a Masters in Philosophy and Religion with an emphasis on Chinese Buddhism, from the California College of Integral Studies. ______________  To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/ There you can:    Donate   Learn how to pa...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Phillip Moffitt began studying raja meditation in 1972 and Vipassana meditation in 1983. A member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, he teaches vipassana retreats throughout the country and is the founder of the Life Balance Institute. He is the author of "Dancing with Life - Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering," the co-author of "The Power to He...

Noah Levine is a teacher in training with Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He teaches a weekly group in San Francisco and regularly teaches daylongs at Spirit Rock. He also teaches meditation in juvenile halls and at San Quentin prison. He is the author of "Dharma Punx," a personal memoir that recounts his life's transition from street punk drug addict to recovering...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Donald Rothberg, Ph. D., a member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Center, and a teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, teaches retreats and groups on concentration and insight meditation practice, lovingkindness practice, transforming the judgmental mind, mindful communication, working skillfully with conflict, and socially engaged Buddhism. He has practiced insight meditation since 197...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Cathleen Williams has been in and about the San Francisco Zen Center for 25 years or so, practicing both as a lay student and as a priest. Over the years she has found that the beginning questions of practice evolve into more refined questions that engage her whole life and that involve both her priest and her psychotherapy practice. Though she is now living away from City Center, her on-going con...

Sean is a Ph. D. candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he is focusing his research on environmental philosophy, intersubjectivity, and Himalayan Buddhist traditions. He just recently spent five months in Bhutan, one of the last Buddhist nations, doing research on the intersection of environmental science, culture, and spirituality. ______________  To support our efforts...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Eugene Cash is the founding teacher of the San Francisco Insight Meditation Community of San Francisco. He teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and leads intensive meditation retreats internationally. His teaching is influenced by both Burmese and Thai streams of the Theravada tradition as well as Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practice. He is also a teacher of the Diamond Approach, a school of spir...

For over 20 years, Roger Corless was a professor of Buddhism and Christianity at Duke University. After settling in the Bay Area in the late 1990s, he became a frequent contributor to GBF. He was also the author of several books, including "Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree." He died in January 2007. ______________  To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audi...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Diana Elrod is an active member of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in the Nichiren tradition. She has a Masters in Philosophy and Religion with an emphasis on Chinese Buddhism, from the California College of Integral Studies. ______________  To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/ There you can:    Donate   Learn how to pa...

Sean is a Ph. D. candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he is focusing his research on environmental philosophy, intersubjectivity, and Himalayan Buddhist traditions. He just recently spent five months in Bhutan, one of the last Buddhist nations, doing research on the intersection of environmental science, culture, and spirituality. ______________  To support our efforts...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

As a Buddhist practitioner and a certified Jungian analyst, Justin has explored both the dharma and Jung’s work and has both professional and personal experience of the interactions of these two powerful belief systems. He will present several useful concepts, illustrated by stories and examples, and be available for discussion at the conclusion of his presentation. ______________  To support our...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Wes Nisker, the co-founder and editor of the international Buddhist journal Inquiring Minds, has practiced Vipassana meditation for 30 years. He is the author of "Buddha's Nature: Evolution as a Guide to Enlightenment," "Crazy Wisdom: A Romp Through the Philosophies of East and West," and "The Buddha, the Big Bang, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Ge...

Bill Weber is a senior Vipassana practitioner and a graduate from Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders program. He has twenty-five years of extensive retreat practice and currently practices at home with his husband or sits with a small group of gay men. He is also a documentary filmmaker and video editor, whose latest projects are “To Be Takei” and “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin.” ______...

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Carol Osmer Newhouse has studied Insight Meditation for more than 30 years and has been teaching for 20. She was given Dharma transmission by The Venerable Ruth Denison, student of the great meditation master U Ba Khin of Burma. She has studied with Dr. Rina Sircar of CIIS and Dr Thynn Thynn in Daily Life Practice. She is the founding teacher of the Lesbian Buddhist Sangha in Berkeley, and a Licen...

For over 20 years, Roger Corless was a professor of Buddhism and Christianity at Duke University. After settling in the Bay Area in the late 1990s, he became a frequent contributor to GBF. He was also the author of several books, including "Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree." He died in January 2007. ______________  To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audi...