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

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I am not really sure that it is a book for beginners. I don't think that they will 'get' it. Just as I'm deluding myself that I 'get' it with only three years of practice. I have the feeling that the book changes meaning with experience and practice. Suggestion: In dyads, have each person state what the term imaginative possible means to them and describe one or more such moments in their life. Have each person answer the question: What prevents you from opening to possibility more fully in your life? This beautiful book offers subtle and vast teachings on the mystery of the body and mind—combined with paintings by an Indian master that evoke deepening states of meditative awareness.”

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Full Book Name: Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering Thank you for choosing to read Emotional Chaos to Clarity in your book group. The purpose of this study guide is to provide you with a variety of perspectives and suggestions for exploring the teachings offered in this book. The topics in this book can reopen old wounds or trigger feelings of inadequacy or vulnerability, so it is imperative that the group set clear rules of engagement, including honoring confidentiality and refraining from criticism or ridicule. It is also vital that members of the group not give advice to the others or try to fix one another’s problems.

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Your book has truly been a wonderful addition and catalyst for my new experience of “falling in love with the Dharma.” I look forward to experiencing your continued teaching and listening deeply to the Dharma … internalizing … certainly, my intention is set!”

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Based on meditation practices Phillip Moffitt learned twenty years ago from Himalayan yoga master Sri Swami Balyogi Premvarni, this beautifully illustrated book is a guide to exploring the nature of mind and gaining a better understanding of experiences that arise during meditation. The Nine Bodies teachings map out a journey that starts with consciousness that arises in the physical body and is directly observable, and then travels through ever more subtle levels of consciousness to that which is not manifest and is only potential, and therefore has to be inferred. The book includes a series of mysterious illustrations that Balyogi created during his time of intense Samadhi explorations. Each illustration is a rich composition of symbols that express aspects of inner experiences that are almost impossible to express with language. In the present moment, the past and future are embodied, and yet it is only in the aliveness of the present moment that the past and the future have meaning. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”Dancing With Life offers us a way to face “the second kind of suffering” and thus have a more meaningful relation- ship with our lives—for this is it! Why wouldn’t we want our participation to be as rich as possible? We may not be living the lives we wished we lived: but, nonetheless, this is the life we have. This book details the path of bringing as much mindfulness to our daily experience and enriching our lives in that manner. Breaking news. Deadlines. Making budgets. There’s no doubt about it: Magazine publishing can be a seriously stressful career. The Four Noble Truths was the Buddha’s first teaching after he found freedom from his own suffering.

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Phillip Moffitt has given us a clear and practical guide to dealing with the unhappiness and frustration that come our way in life. He leads us on a path of connection rather than isolation, and compassion rather than fruitless anger and self-judgment. Everyone could benefit from reading this book.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness Moffitt’s book is a gem: it is a handbook to help us develop and hone our skills so that we respond to our suffering in a way whereby we are not defined by it. The book—an explication of the Four Noble Truths, which is the Buddha’s primary teaching—is well organized, full of examples from Moffitt’s life and the lives of his students, and is eminently readable. His style is lucid and alive, and his book is a treasure to savor. I highly recommend this book to anyone whether or not they are familiar with the Buddha’s teachings.”Moffitt states that the purpose of writing this book was to “help people learn to live more skillfully,” just as he began to do at age 40. Leaving behind a successful career, he embarked on a journey of study, meditation, and Jungian analysis to discover new capacities in himself, and a connection to a larger purpose. That larger purpose evolved into helping others find clarity, direction, and meaning in their lives. Of the books I've read on Buddhist practice, this one is the most accessible. It also does Buddhism justice by treating it as a skill-building practice rather than the common but inaccurate, in my opinion, portrayal of it as a religion or belief system. Emphasis is on interpreting and developing the fruits of practice. Suggestion: Either in a group or in dyads, have each person describe how compulsiveness manifests in their life. Then have each person describe how they felt listening to the others, whether they felt compassionate or judgmental. Discuss how the wisdom reflected in the chapters on balancing priorities and keeping boundaries support overcoming ordinary compulsiveness. Life can be a profound joy. And it can be a hard business. I have learned over the years that some of how I feel is my own choice. And in times when it feels utterly beyond me to choose, I have found all sorts of wonderful people and tools to support myself not to sink into bitterness.