num_pages: 136
description: A lively topical guide on how to respond to lifes inevitable difficultiesfrom personal crises to broader societal challenges The issue of difficulty in life is at the very essence of Buddhism. One can reasonably translate the first noble truth as life is full of difficulties with the remaining noble truths serving as Buddhisms analysis of those difficulties and how to work with them. In Solid Ground  celebrated Buddhist teachers Sylvia Boorstein Zoketsu Norman Fisher and Tsoknyi Rinpoche use their diverse wisdom to address the immediate and practical concerns of our lives including individual crises as well as the political economic and social challenges society is currently facing. Together they explore the most basic and profound questions of the difficulty of life in general and how we can work with that and ameliorate it.Filled with humor and personal stories Solid Ground offers specific teachings for concrete situations as well as a way to explore the larger questions of finding equanimity in difficult times.
language: English
title: Solid Ground: Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times
publisher: Parallax Press