Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering

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Finding a way to be at ease with the dance itself is a crucial skill in finding freedom and meaning in life. Today, he is a meditation teacher and co-guiding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Phillip Moffitt takes the profound insights of the wisdom traditions and translates them into simple and effective steps to stable inner strength, happiness, and peace. With this book in particular one doesn’t need to be a Buddhist practitioner to fully understand and apply the life enhancing principles Philip has presented.

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But you don’t have to helplessly submit to your mind being tossed around willy-nilly by these inner storms. As you grow from childhood to adulthood, you inevitably experience life’s difficulties, whether it is through a physical limitation or illness, emotional anguish, fear or disappointment, loss or separation from a loved one, or the anxiety and stress surrounding all your wants and needs. A classic challenge that has been wrestled with for hundreds of years is the teaching of the Third Noble Truth before the Fourth. She continued: ‘It takes so much more energy to be hateful, to be horrible, where you could just not say anything or say something positive.There is also just a lot on how to become a better person for yourself and others, and really makes you realize a lot of things that are important or not important in life. His writing is direct and personal, extremely practical, and often peppered with convincing anecdotal evidence supporting the intrinsic human capacity for consequential transformation when given appropriate support and skills. you will quickly notice that this awareness is untouched by what it is aware of, regardless of whether it is pleasant or unpleasant. We’ve all fallen prey at some point in our lives to such constricted, dreaded, almost unbearable dark times of self-doubt and existential angst.

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And, for years, I practiced the teachings such that I had a direct experience with what Balyogi was pointing me toward.

It is very different from most dharma books in that it has such an elaborate and friendly structure to it, nested within and around the Four Noble Truths and Ajahn Sumedho’s lovely voicing of dharma. I’ve developed this study guide to provide you with recommendations for how to teach the material in the book and to help you address certain challenges your students may encounter. There's a lot of good guidance in here, but I can only absorb a little bit, as I am but a beginner at all things meditation/Buddhism. This approach constitutes the foundation for a more authentic relationship with yourself and others. No matter how bright and skilled you are, you will only create turmoil for yourself by clinging to this false identity.