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 provides the key to a life of creativity and wisdom, as well as compassion for ourselves and others.
Readers of Feelings, flourishing and secular dharma will discover that feeling tones are everywhere. In this book, Martine covers the many ways that feeling tones operate in our mind, and how they are deeply conditioned, as well as how they impact our emotional habits and form part of our identity. Being creatively mindful of feeling tones is, she suggests, the basis of an ethical life.
And central to an understanding of secular dharma practice is creativity. Meditation, when practised creatively, enables us to dissolve the obstacles to our potential, enabling it to manifest in any circumstance.
The series
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