(Part of a stone wall that Stephen built)
Was anything built?
Was anyone the builder?
Stephen Fulder, Ph.D, is one of Israel’s leading spiritual teachers, founder of the Israel Insight Society (Tovana). He has been teaching Buddhist teachings and meditation practice to thousands of people over the last 20 years. He draws on 40 years of deep personal experience of Vipassana/ Mindfulness meditation and dharma practice as well as the immeasurable wisdom of the Buddhist tradition, to help us to rediscover the magic of the moment, and the great heart and big mind that lies just under the surface. This site makes available hundreds of talks, reflections and articles in English and Hebrew as well as guided meditations, both for beginners and those with prior experience. In addition there are materials on herbal remedies, about which Stephen has written many books.
The book, in English, can be ordered post free.
My new book is out!!
I am really excited to announce that my new book The Five Powers is published, after 3 years work! It has turned out to be such a beautiful dharma book, full of stunning illustrations which amplify the text. I myself was knocked over when I saw it!
A few words about The Five Powers (Bala in the Pali language):
They are Trust, Energy, Mindfulness, Calm and Wisdom - the basic equipment that we all need to transform our lives.
They are the essence of Buddhist inspired teachings, highly developed, extraordinarily effective, sublime and yet very practical.
The book offers guidelines on how to develop and explore capacities which we may have neglected, that will help us to make transitions, and to live a meaningful and fulfilled daily life whatever the circumstances.
©Alessandro Sanna/ from The Five Powers/ by Stephen Fulder and Alessandro Sanna
The Five Spiritual Powers -
Fundamental Capacities for Meeting the Challenges and Opportunities of Life with Skill and Freedom.
An Online Course of Study and Practice
The course is associated with our new book: Stephen Fulder and Alessandro Sanna: The Five Powers: A Guide to Personal Peace and Freedom. Astar/an imprint of Hachette UK. 2020
How can we surf the waves of change rather than be submerged by them? How do we perform a restart? Is it possible to radically transform our daily life? How do we emerge from this sense of endless struggle? How can we invite deeper meaning and more ease, steadiness, and freedom into our lives?
The Buddhist teaching of The Five Powers - Trust, Energy, Mindfulness, Calm and Wisdom - (Bala in the Pali language) are the basic equipment that we all need to transform our life. They are the essence of Buddhist inspired teachings, highly developed, extraordinarily effective, sublime and yet very practical. Mindfulness is just one of the five.
There are 8 video talks and 8 guided meditations as well as a variety of practical exercises and reading materials, to help apply the teachings to our daily life. You can meet Stephen online.
The course is available at any time! Try the first free lesson before deciding!
‘Dependent Origination’ - Buddhist Path to Freedom.
An Online Course of Study and Practice
How do we create our experience and how in each moment can we free or imprison ourselves? Why does life seem such a struggle? How can I understand birth and death, and at the same time the timeless and deathless? What is consciousness?
This is a fundamental and yet most profound Buddhist teaching that is the basis of Buddhist psychology, and insight into perennial questions about reality that keep arising. It is taught here in an easily understandable, daily life, practical way.
“Stephen Fulder takes us deep into Buddhist wisdom... He has a beautiful teaching style – clear, patient, thorough without being ponderous, unpretentious, deeply felt, and authoritative without being dogmatic”. S.L. Swarthmore, PA, USA
Special offer: now only $59!
There are 8 video talks and 8 guided meditations as well as a variety of practical exercises and reading materials, to help apply the teachings to our daily life. You can meet Stephen online.
The course is available at any time! Try the first free lesson before deciding!
‘The Ten Paramis’ – Transforming the Way We Are
An Online Course of Inspiration and Practice
How do we develop qualities such as calm, energy, authenticity, generosity, equanimity, and a loving heart?
What happens to our personality if we engage with Buddhist teachings and practices? How can we live our daily life, including challenges such as relationships or work, from a radically different place? What is an enlightened action? The teaching in this course is easily understandable and down to earth.
The Paramis are refined, developed capacities by which we navigate through our life with ease, clarity and joy.
There are 8 video talks and 8 guided meditations as well as a variety of practical exercises and reading materials, to help apply the teachings to daily life. You can meet Stephen online.
The course is available at any time! Try the first free lesson before deciding!
Special offer: now only $59!
‘Who Am I?’ Buddhist View of Self
A practical and down-to-earth guide to Anatta
As soon as we start to explore who or what we are, a new landscape is revealed, rich with insights: 'Who is in charge of my life?' 'How can I dissolve the sense of separation between me and the world?' 'How can we get ourselves out of the way?' ‘What is the experience of the limitless?’
Buddhist practice to discover the self and what is beyond (‘Anatta’) helps us peel off layers of conditioning and beliefs and live more wisely, more lightly and more freely.
An online course consisting of 8 video talks, 8 guided meditations, written materials, exercises and you can meet Stephen online.
The course is available at any time. Try the first free lesson before deciding.
Special Offer: now only $59
My new book:
What's Beyond Mindfulness?
Waking Up to This Precious Life
This is a book for everyone - clear, practical and with the power to imbue your life once more with the sense of magic and mystery you felt as a child. It will allow you to put down the burdens of anxiety, joylessness, stress or a judging mind, and shift your experience of the world in a truly profound way.
Mindfulness - or the practice of awareness - is increasingly popular but represents just one strand of the incredibly rich and fulfilling Buddhist approach to life. Exploring how to be fulfilled at work, how to age wisely, how to dissolve difficult emotions, how to be truly authentic and much, much more, this book reveals how to live a liberated life and shows exactly how Buddhist concepts and practice such as compassion, joy, ease, mindfulness and awakening can bring radical change to your life.
Forthcoming Teaching Events in Israel to August 2020
April 1-4. Dharma Seminar for Experienced Practitioners. www.tovana.org.il
April 19 for 8 weeks. Online Webinar on Factors of Awakening. www.tovana.org.il
April 23-25. Retreat on Krishnamurti with Mukesh. Guest Sessions. www.mnclil.com
June 10-13. Weekend Retreat for Those with Some Experience. www.tovana.org.il
July 16-18. City Retreat Tel Aviv. www.tovana.org.il
July 31st. One Day Workshop at Mind-Body. www.mindbody.co.il
August 9-16. Retreat on Love. Brahma Viharas. For Those with Some Experience www.tovana.org.il
August 17-22. Retreat on Self and Non-self and Emptiness. For Those with Some Experience www.tovana.org.il
Teaching Events in the UK. June/ July 2020
June 21st. 18.30-21.30 Jewish Oriented Practice. JW3, 341-351 Finchley Rd, London NW3 6ET Contact: www.HaMakom.org.uk Zac Newman (zacnewman1986@googlemail.com)
June 22nd. 19.30-21.00 Oxford Insight. Friends Meeting House, St. Giles, Oxford. Contact: Brigid Avison. bavison@phonecoop.coop
June 27. 19.30- 22.00 Consciousness Café. Royal Seven Stars, The Plains, Totnes. Contact: Wendy Stayte. wendystt997@gmail.com
July 2. Evening. Alternatives. London: Venue to announced. www.alternatives.org.uk
July 5th. One-Day Intensive at London Insight. St. Luke’s Community Center, 90 Central Street, London EC1. Contact: Louise Kennedy. admin@londoninsight.org
For full details of all my courses, retreats, book launches and other events in Israel, please visit the Hebrew website
Dana is love
Thank You!
A moment of reflection
A Soft Green Touch
Stephen Fulder
A gentle touch on the shoulder
A reminder to return
A Zen master wielding a feather
Brushing me into awareness
It was a soft green spring leaf
The carob tree stroking its guest
> My new book on the dharma in Hebrew, ''Daily Life Awakeing", is very popular, and has been for many weeks the number one bestseller of instructional books. It is available at all bookshops.
"Been reading the book with much joy! It's beautiful, straightforward, and deep" (Profesor Yacov Raz, University of Tel Aviv),
"Wise, inspiring, and refreshing to the heart." (Jack Kornfield. Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
