Buddhadharma Magazine: Fall 2009
Start With Your Body
When we hear words like “meditation,” “mindfulness,” or “mind training,” we often assume we’re working with our minds alone. But nothing could be further from the way it really is. Meditation, mindfulness, and mind training are full-being enterprises.
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Marin Magazine
Short Essay on Meditating for 3 months
Like most of my dharma teacher colleagues, I try to do an extended mindfulness meditation retreat each year for the benefit of my own spiritual practice. In the fall of 2000, I attended a three-month silent meditation retreat at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. My daily routine consisted of waking up at 5 a.m. and beginning to meditate at 5:30 a.m..
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Kripalu Catalog
Dharma of Life Changes by Phillip Moffitt
April 2009
Around the New Year, most
people find themselves
resolving to make some kind
of changes in their lives.
Sometimes these reassessments are merely
daydreams or banal musings, but other
times, they are our inner voice speaking
and attention should be paid.
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Shambhala Publication
Best Buddhists Writings of 2009.
“The most illuminating of these [essays] include Phillip Moffitt’s lucid explanation of mindfulness and Martine Batchelor’s and Joan Sutherland’s contributions on koans. The series’ greatest aspect...
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Dinvination Foundation
pathways podcast: Phillip Moffitt, Dancing With Life; Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering (Phillip Moffitt)
Interview with Paul O'Brian
Paul O'Brien, host of the Pathways program on KBOO FM in Portland, taped a 1/2 hour interview with Phillip.
You can listen to it here.
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Elephant Journal
Book Review: Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering (Phillip Moffitt)
By Todd Mayville on Oct 27, 2008 inin blog, non-new agey spirituality, reviews
Dancing With Life is an exploration of the little known Twelve Insights related to the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism. Broken into four “books” or sections, Moffitt explores the process of reflecting upon, then directly experiencing, and then finally into knowing each of the Noble Truths and also discusses how to put that knowledge into play in every day life. There are two ways to approach this text.
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Deverpost.com - Yogi left fast lane for peace , Ex-N.Y. exec helps others find balance
By Colleen O'Connor
The Denver Post
Article Launched: 07/29/2008 12:30:00 AM MDT
When he turned 40, Phillip Moffitt walked away from the life he'd created in Manhattan as a whiz-kid entrepreneur who brought the men's magazine Esquire — hemorrhaging readers and money — back to health. He shed his professional identity, its perks and privileges, like a cheap suit.
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The Huffington Post - How Suffering Got A Bad Name
Posted June 6, 2008 | 09:04 AM (EST)
In my role as a Buddhist meditation teacher, I've observed a phenomenon that I call the "stigma of suffering syndrome" among many beginning students. They are uneasy with the fact that their lives contain suffering; therefore, they are ineffective in coping with whatever difficulties and disappointments arise. For such individuals to admit to suffering would mean defeat, humiliation, or shame because they did not measure up to our culture's view that winners don't suffer. Their ineffectiveness manifests as passivity, helplessness, guilt, or self-hatred.
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THE PACIFIC SUN - Former CEO trades Esquire magazine to Dance with Buddhism -- part 1 of 2
Books and Poetry, posted by Diana deRegnier, a resident of another community, on Jun 18, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Though he'd just nurtured Esquire magazine back to financial health, Phillip Moffitt says, "I felt exiled from my own heart." Moffitt then walked away and began to dance with life's sufferings as well as its joys as a Buddhist practitioner.
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American Chronicle
Diana deRegnier
June 07, 2008
Former CEO trades Esquire magazine for a Dance with Buddhism (part 2 of 2)
Last week, in part one of my interview with Phillip Moffitt, he explained how and why he walked away from success with Esquire magazine to further develop an inner life as a Buddhist. Phillip showed us his dance. This week Phillip breaks down each movement of the dance with life and encourages us to co-choreograph a dance of our own.
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FOLIO: mediaPRO Community
From Publishing CEO to Buddhist Priest to Rodale Author
After Esquire, Phillip Moffitt found Buddhism—and wrote a book about it.
Jason Fell By Jason Fell - 05/30/2008 -13:59 PM
People leave magazine publishing all the time and for all sorts of reasons. Some want to spend more time with their family. Some want to go back to school. Some leave to start their own business. Others devote themselves to Buddhism after feeling “exiled” from his own heart.
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San Fransisco Chronicle
Moffitt traded Esquire for the quiet life
Amy Moon, Chronicle Staff Writer - Sunday, April 6, 2008
At the pinnacle of his success as chief executive and editor in chief of Esquire magazine, Phillip Moffitt walked away from it all - the glamour, the accolades, the punishing schedule - and chose instead to wake up each morning and breathe, to explore the mysteries he had always intuited.
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RODALE PUBLISHING RELEASES DANCING WITH LIFE
Launch Date: APRIL 15, 2008
Reflecting on his own journey from Esquire editor-in-chief to Buddhist teacher, Phillip Moffitt provides a fresh perspective on the Buddha’s ancient wisdom, showing how to move from suffering to new awareness and unanticipated joy.
Why do we suffer? Is there a purpose to our pain? Can we affect how much we suffer? Noting that human beings have wrestled with such questions for thousands of years, Phillip Moffitt has found answers for his own life in Buddhist philosophy. In this deeply spiritual book that is sure to become a Buddhist classic, he explores the twelve insights that underlie the Buddha’s core teaching—the Four Noble Truths—and uses these often neglected insights to guide readers to more meaningful lives.
Moffitt writes: “These twelve insights teach you to dance with both the joy and pain, finding peace in a balanced mind and calm spirit. 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.”
With insightful writing and a strong message of self-empowerment, Dancing with Life offers a prescriptive path for finding joy and peace that will appeal to readers of “Dharma Wisdom,” Moffitt’s bimonthly column in Yoga Journal, as well as anyone searching for a more meaningful life.
ISBN 13: 978–1–59486–353–0
ISBN 10: 1–59486–353–9
Hardcover / $24.95 / 352 pages