In this talk, Phillip Moffitt, a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, explains how mood and attitude, hidden aspects that many people overlook, affect how mindfulness works in daily life. Mindfulness itself is defined and expanded on later in the talk.
Phillip travels throughout the U.S. and Canada leading silent meditation retreats and is a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council. Phillip’s primary teachers are Ajahn Sumedho and Sri Swami Balyogi Premvarni. Between 1999 and 2006, Phillip wrote a regular column for Yoga Journal called “Dharma Wisdom,” which became the inspiration for his Dharma Wisdom website. And in 2008 he published his first book about living the dharma in daily life, Dancing with Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering. An excerpt from the book was published in The Best Buddhist Writing, 2009. In 2012 Phillip published a second book about Buddhist psychology, Emotional Chaos to Clarity. An excerpt from the book was published in The Best Buddhist Writing, 2013. Phillip has also written for or been featured in Shambhala Sun, Tricycle, and Buddhadharma magazines.
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