TUWHIRI ONLINE BOOK READING GROUP
Revamp: writings on secular Buddhism
by Winton Higgins
Sundays from 9 March through 8 June 2025 on Zoom
Followed on 15 June by a Q&A session with Winton Higgins
A living tradition, Buddhism began as a way of working with the difficulties we all face as mortal, vulnerable, conscious beings. Its founder imbued this practice with an ethic of care and teachings we can use today to interpret our experience and as a guide to full human flourishing.Since the Buddha’s death, the dharma has been expressed in many ways in different cultural settings, and often these border crossings enriched it. But when the dharma appeared in religious guise, it became burdened with cosmic beliefs, its practice regimented, and was used as an instrument of social control, stifling the freedom at its heart.
Secularity encourages a search for the good life in today’s circumstances, not as prescribed by timeless myths. As part of the process of the dharma putting down roots in the west, secular Buddhism offers the vitality of the early dharma, free of religious distortions.
In Revamp: writings on secular Buddhism Winton Higgins tracks the emergence of secular Buddhism with a focus on today’s climate emergency and intensifying social injustice that cry out for radical socioeconomic and political change. The ethic of care that underpins a creative dharma practice, he suggests, calls on us all to bring our training to bear on these urgent tasks.
Session start times on Sunday 9 March in a range of time zones:
- Hawaii 8am HST
- US/Canada west coast 11am PDT
- US/Canada east coast 2pm EDT
- London 6pm GMT
- Europe 7pm CET
Facilitation
As with many book reading groups, this one will determine how to share the facilitation process among participants during its first session.
Cost
While there’s no fee to take part, to confirm your place we ask that you send Tuwhiri USD $40 (or the equivalent in your currency). This will be returned to you on 17 March after the second session.
On the Sunday following the final session, participants will have an opportunity to meet with Winton Higgins and offer dana.
Resources
Participants will be sent a code to get 10 percent off the paperback and digital versions of Revamp in Tuwhiri’s online store, where prices include postage for all of Tuwhiri’s printed books.
Download the free Guide for reading group and individual study.
To take part
For more info and to reserve your place send us an email.
About the author
Winton Higgins has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1987 and a teacher of insight meditation since 1995. He has contributed to the development of a secular Buddhism internationally, and is a senior teacher for Sydney Insight Meditators.