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Buddhist intelligence for finding flexibility and insight through spiritual practice amid disease and pain. "Let your disease be your spiritual instructor!" Make a assertion like this to someone who's battled for years with, say, rheumatoid arthritis, and be ready for an eyesight roll (at best). To Peter Fernando's credit, he makes that assertion, no such impulse develops. We believe that him because he's been there himself and because he backs up the claims with his own real encounters and with real intelligence from Buddhist teachings. Peter starts off by defusing the pernicious opinion that anyone is in some way responsible for their disease: You're not "wrong" to be unwell. Then, having become past self-blame, one can commence to learn self-kindness. After that one movements to mindfulness practices and cultivating body understanding - even if body understanding is distasteful when your body isn't behaving how you like. Further issues include getting personal with dark feelings (dread, despair, the intimidating future, disappointment, grief, etc.), learning equanimity (rejoicing in the nice fortune of those who don't promote your fighting), cultivating healthy associations amid everything, and sensible advice for coping with pain. Each section comes with a number of practices or guided meditations for placing the teachings into practice.
