As the most specific, practical life instructions I have ever encountered, they serve as an invaluable tool for anyone who seeks a life filled with meaning and well-being. Phillip Moffitt has given us a clear and practical guide to dealing with the unhappiness and frustration that come our way in life.

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The next section, “Developing Skillful Behaviors,” presents skills that will guide you to live according to your values and intentions. If you’re new to Movement Medicine these events are a wonderful way to get a sense of what it’s all about. At the peak of his career, former CEO and Editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine, Phillip Moffitt, traded in his worldly success to explore the inner life.

In this deeply spiritual book that is sure to become a Buddhist classic, Moffitt explores the twelve insights that underlie the Buddha's core teaching--the Four Noble Truths--and uses these often neglected ideas to guide readers to a more meaningful relationship to suffering. Recently, I watched one of her performances and as she moved on the stage, I was struck by the choreography and how it paralleled what I wanted this blog to explore. Reflecting on his own journey from Esquire magazine editor-in-chief to Buddhist meditation teacher, Moffitt provides a fresh perspective on the Buddha's ancient wisdom, showing how to move from suffering to new awareness and unanticipated joy.

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Reflect on what you have read in this chapter and ask yourself what you believe to be true about you and your identity. He teaches vipassana meditation at Spirit Rock and at retreat centers around the United States and Canada, and he teaches a weekly meditation class in Marin County, California. I chose to devote the second chapter of the book to the questions of how identity is created and how our ideas about the self trap us in a cycle of suffering.Think of all those occasions when you felt as though you were wasting your life, or sleepwalking through it, or not living from your deepest, most heart-felt sense of your self. It is genuinely possible to experience a sense of purpose in life, one that is based on living from your intentions, regardless of almost all external circumstances. Balyogi says he created these illustrations during a period of intense Samadhi when he had a series of revelations and visions about the structure of consciousness. This book seems like one that could benefit readers with no exposure to Buddhism as well as to people with significant exposure either intellectually or through practice.