003 Feelings, flourishing and secular dharma
Due to be published towards the end of 2026, in this Buddhism in a Nutshell title, Martine Batchelor shows how mindfulness of feeling tones can serve as the key to a life of creativity, wisdom and compassion.
Learning to recognise the entire spectrum of what we feel provides us with the foundation for a more conscious and ethical life. Martine explores how this ever-present tonality of feeling characterises our experience, how it emerges out of inner and outer conditions, influences how we think, triggers emotional reactions and shapes our identity. By creatively engaging with these feeling tones rather than instinctively reacting to them we embark on an ethical path that enables a more appropriate response to the joys and suffering of our world.
Each chapter includes meditations to help cultivate the caring and careful mindfulness needed to let go of the obstacles that hold us back from realising our potential and the creativity to bring forth a more flourishing life.
The series
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