Sharing our experiences as secular dharma students and practitioners in Wellington and Cardiff
Channel: One Mindful Breath
Date: 2019-01-16

Connecting with One Mindful Breath in Wellington, New Zealand on Zoom from Cardiff in Wales, Lorna Edwards first met secular dharma through secular mindfulness, both as a student and as a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. 

She became curious. In her work as a systemic and family psychotherapist, she says she is deeply influenced by secular dharma study and practice.

During 2015, she found herself searching for secular dharma teachings, and heard about the launch of Bodhi College. And during 2016–7 she took part in the two year Bodhi College course, ‘Secular dharma: study, practice and community’.

Lorna is a core member of the Cardiff secular dharma group, which will be formally launched later this month. She says that the purpose of the group is ‘a wish to take forward the teachings’. 

The group intends to go through Stephen Batchelor’s book ‘After Buddhism’ and Winton Higgins’ book ‘After Buddhism: a workbook’ together.

At the same time, Lorna is in the process of setting up a secular drop-in meditation group in the village where she lives, which is 18 km to the north of Cardiff.