IMS Book Club: A Whole-Life Path - Gregory Kramer

A Lay Buddhist’s Guide to Crafting a Dhamma-Infused Life

By Gregory Kramer

Book club dates: Tuesdays, November 10, 17, and 24, at 7 PM EST.

Q&A Information for the Meetings

Meeting #1: Participants are invited to submit questions to Gregory before the first event, by Monday, November 9. To submit questions, email Gregory at info@gregorykramer.org.

Meetings #2 & #3: will be conducted on Zoom using the chat function.

For descriptions of each meeting, click here.

Many lay Buddhists struggle to carry the benefits of their studies and meditation practice into their twenty-first-century lives. How might our daily experience of both life and the Buddha’s teachings shift if there were no separation between them?

In A Whole-Life Path, Gregory Kramer invites us to see the complexity and challenges of today’s world as doorways to fully embodied Dhamma wisdom. He explores each factor of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path then looks at modern life, calling out opportunities to put all the Buddha’s teachings into practice—individually, relationally, and socially.

“This remarkable book offers a perspective on the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path that is at once solidly rooted in the canonical texts of early Buddhism, yet astutely attuned to the needs of contemporary readers seeking to navigate our frantic, directionless culture.”— Bhikkhu Bodhi, Buddhist scholar and translator

Gregory Kramer teaches, writes, and is the founding teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community. His primary focuses are sharing a relational understanding of the Dhamma and teaching Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal form of Buddhist insight meditation. He is the author of Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom; Dharma Contemplation: Meditating Together with Wisdom Texts; Seeding the Heart: Practicing Lovingkindness with Children; and other books and articles. Since he began teaching meditation worldwide in 1980, he has pioneered online meditation and contemplation practices. His primary focus since 1995 has been developing and sharing a relational study of the Dhamma and Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal form of Buddhist insight meditation, and groups are now active worldwide. He also developed Dharma Contemplation, a text-based contemplation practice.