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A Year of Dancing with Life : Archive
Week #1: The Truth of Suffering
Week #2: Suffering Is Impermanent
Week #3: Subjective vs. Objective Suffering
Week #4: Suffering Is Noble
Week #5: The Three Kinds of Suffering
Week #6: Feeling "The Ouch" of Suffering
Week #7: It’s Not Easy to Feel Suffering
Week #8: Opening to Your Own Dukkha
Week #9: Opening to the Dukkha of Others
Week #10: Don’t Know Mind
Week #11: Knowing That You Know
Week #12: Penetrating Dukkha
Week #13: Willingness to “Stand Under” Suffering
Week #14: The Ego’s Fear of Humiliation
Week #15: The Good of Suffering
Week #16: There Is a Cause of Your Suffering
Week #17: Desire without Craving
Week #18: The Three Kinds of Craving
Week #19: Wholesome and Unwholesome Desire
Week #20: Sustaining Wholesome Desires
Week #21: The Difference between Pain and Suffering
Week #22: Attachment to Desire
Week #23: Abandoning Attachment to Desire
Week #24: Why Your Mind Clings
Week #25: How to Abandon Clinging
Week #26: Self-Soothing Practices
Week #27: Starting Over
Week #28: What Makes Life Worthwhile
Week #29: The Need for Renunciation
Week #30: The Paradox of Desire
Week #31: Cessation—The End of Suffering
Week #32: The Gradual Path to Cessation
Week #33: Practicing Cessation
Week #34: The Buddha’s Fire Sermon
Week #35: Knowing Cessation
Week #36: Three Stages of Realization
Week #37: Transforming the Ego
Week #38: Transcending the Ego
Week #39: Transparency
Week #40: The Way to End Your Suffering
Week #41: The Noble Eightfold Path
Week #42: Panna or Wisdom Practices
Week #43: Sila or Virtue Practices
Week #44: Samadhi or Concentration Practices
Week #45: The Courage to Be Happy
Week #46: Three Kinds of Happiness
Week #47: Condition Dependent Happiness
Week #48: Mind State Dependent Happiness
Week #49: Absolute Happiness
Week #50: Allow Happiness to Be Your Teacher
Week #51: Surrendering Your Innocence
Week #52: Exploring Your Own Inner Stillness
Phillip Moffitt
At the peak of his career, former CEO and Editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine, Phillip Moffitt, traded in his worldly aspirations to explore the inner life. He subsequently founded the Life Balance Institute and now teaches vipassana meditation with an emphasis on living the dharma in daily life. Phillip is a co-guiding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the author of Dancing with Life.
Dancing with Life
Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in Everyday Life
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