Page Text: Dharma Overground Links Page
Here is a list of various website of value in no particular order :
Open Sit is a website created by Dan Bartlet and some other coder/practitioner friends for creating journals of your practice and sharing with other practitioners. It has numerous cool features.
The Fire Kasina is a website about this powerful ancient kasina practice, with many audio reports, bits of advice on technique, and a free book, The Fire Kasina.
Meaningness is David Chapman's site about re-vamping Tantric Buddhism for modern vampires, pun intended. His other site is Vividness , which again is about finding the dharma in this day and age.
Dakani Power is all about the power of women in the dharma. See also The Yogini Project .
The Alliance for Buddhist Ethics "exists to affirm the importance of ethics in all Buddhist traditions so that the Buddhadharma can flourish with integrity for a future of equality and respect for all."
Cheetah House is a resource for meditators in distress run by Dr. Willoughby Britton.
IntegratedDaniel - The creator of this site's homepage. His book, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha , can be found there as well as an assortment of other useful articles. Those seeking to understand a lot of the model terminology used on this site should probably check it out. It also contains a lot of good advice on such topics as the Dark Night, realistic models of enlightenment, helpful instructions for practice, and other practical topics.
Kenneth Folk's dharma site, often referred to as KFD , is an early spinoff and current sister site of the DhO and contains a lot of crossover membership. However, a new public version is now back up and running and found here .
The Dharma Underground spawned the Dharma Overground, which spawned KFD and OE when the first Great Schism occurred, and then KFD had its own series of schisms, one of which spawned The Dharma Forum Refugees Camp, whose members include some of the early DhO members, and that spawned the grand attempt at re-integrating some of the fractured communities called awakenetwork.org .
Open Dharma Foundation works to create scholarships to support pragmatic practice, previously called the Pragmatic Dharma Foundation.
RetreatBase is a searchable database of places to go on retreat.
Modern Mahasiddha is a pragmatic online vajrayana community forum.
BodhiMonastery is a free online resource containing free online courses about the dharma.
A Householders Vinaya : A free online resource and .pdf book for those interested in deepening their sila in daily life by Allan Cooper.
DialecticalAmy is the blog and website of Amy Donohue on practice and this post-post-modern life.
Alan Chapman has a current project called Magia . The Baptist's Head and Occult Experiments in the home appear to have vanished. Something along similar lines can be found at Occult Corpus .
Offering workshops and dharma teachings is Wild Presence , including Karen Gifford at www.karengifford.org , who trained with Alan Chapman.
The Hamilton Project is another site dedicated to practical dharma that spun off of the DhO and KFD.
Deconstructing Yourself is the site of Michael Taft and Jessica Graham and is dedicated to awakening and wisdom.
Deep Mindfulness Collective is the mentoring project of Rakhel and Janusz and is strongly influenced by Shinzen Young and other teachers.
Eric Gatley blogs about and teaches pragmatic meditation.
Anna Lutkajtis is a practitioner/researcher/scholar with an interest in the Dark Night who has published some great articles.
Acacemia.edu has a wealth of articles, books, and publications related to meditation and science, but not all are purely scientific, and there is plenty there for the general consciousness adventurer.
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) helps train teens in mindful living and runs retreats for teens. Some great people work there.
There is a Reddit group dedicated to pragmatic dharma and high-level discussions.
Direct Pointing can be found at Liberation Unleashed .
Shinzen Young is a meditation teacher who was a friend of Bill Hamilton and teaches a modernized version of vipassana mixed with influences of Zen and Vajrayana. Har-Prakash Khalsa does videos of Shinzen and also teaches meditation and does his own videos and art.
Abhidhamma.Org "Books and articles about Theravada Buddhism. The theory and practice of satipatthana vipassana (insight meditation) according to the Pali Tipitaka."
Wisdom Library has a large collection of online text and dictionary resources.
Pali Audio publishes free English audio versions of various books of the Pali Canon.
Sutta Central is trying to put the whole of the Pali Canon online in English Translation for free, and they already have some large parts of it available. Highly recommended. Works best with Chrome Browser.
DharmaTreasure is the website of Upasaka Culadasa (aka Dr. John Yates), a Tibetan and Theravadan teacher who is interested in a modern, scientific take on ancient wisdom.
The Integral Dharma Institute is the dharma resource site run by Andrew Olendzki, an accomplished scholar of the dharma.
Dharmachanics describes itself as "A growing, peer-led, experimental, global online sangha. We provide support to members practicing meditation and mindfulness to be awake in the world, the world awake in us. We are an inclusive sangha that welcomes all traditions and schools of Buddhist practice and study. This is supported through live hangouts, an extensive video library, on-line forums, silent sitting sessions, book discussions and on-line retreats with leading Buddhist teachers. All members are welcome to participate and encouraged to suggest and create more content and discussions."
DharmaFarers has a lot of textual resources and things in translation.
http://hokai.info/ is the website of Hokai Sobol, a very skilled Vajrayana practitioner and scholar that was part of the core group that began at the DhO.
10% Happier is the journalistic meditation promotion project of the ever-personable and inquisitive Dan Harris of ABC News.
Post-Traditional Buddhism is a thoughtful, intelligent blog dediated to rational critique of current emerging Buddhism. It is also living proof that non-toxic things can actually arise from the speculative non-buddhist movement despite themselves, and is the home of the Imperfect Buddhist Podcast .
Kamalashila teaches meditation in the London area with Triratna.
Andrew Olendzki is a Buddhist practitioner-scholar who has been kind enough to post some of his helpful maps, tables and the like on his website.
http://www.constancecasey.com is Constance Casey's site.
robertthanattarigpa.blogspot.com/ is the blog of Robert Thomas Hindmarch.
www.vincenthorn.com/ is a link to the blog of an ex-DhO member and yet one of the core founders, Vince Horn. His current meditation teaching project with his co-teacher and partner Emily Horn is Meditate.io which is home to Mindfulness++, a revamping of meditation for the digital age. Buddhist Geeks has been resurrected, and there you will find hundreds of podcasts about meditation.
The Consciousness Explorers Club is based in Toronto, run by meditation teacher, adventurer and author Jeff Warren , and emphasizes meditation, celebration, and activism: fun stuff!
Leigh Brasington's Jhanas Page - A great collection of articles and information on the jhanas, created and assembled by jhana teacher Leigh Brasington. He has a free eBook on Dependent Origination found here , and an at-cost print version found here .
Cyborg Buddha Project - The Cyborg Buddha Project was founded to "promote discussion of the impact that neuroscience and emerging neurotechnologies will have on happiness, spirituality, cognitive liberty, moral behavior and the exploration of meditational and ecstatic states of mind."
Spirituality Explained is the work of Frank Heine and an attempt to integrate neurobiology and meditative perceptual models.
Bhikkhu's Blog - A Canadian born Theravada monk ordained in Thailand in 1992. Abbot of the Arrow River Forest Hermitage.