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Writing Your Way
by Manjusvara

ItÕs about learning how to unlock your creativity, how to let language work through you and begin dancing across the page.

Emerging out of the Wolf at the Door writing workshops taught in many FWBO centres and elsewhere worldwide, Writing Your Way helps us to see writing as a transformative tool in our search for wholeness. Manjusvara (David Keefe) expertly guides us to the heart of writing as well as to aspects of Buddhism, with writing exercises that delicately weave in teachings on mindfulness and compassion, freedom and openness.

"Imagine you are about to write your autobiography. Think of a title which consists of an image. Be patient: images often take time to surface from the unconscious, so you might need to repeat this exercise several times over the next few days. Keep reflecting on the key events of your life - you could make a list of chapter headings - and trust that something will eventually emerge."

"A newcomer to writing recently described her experience of putting pen to paper like discovering a room in your house that you had never been into, maybe a room you did not even know existed, certainly one to which you did not have a key. On the face of it this seemed surprising. Here was a mature self-aware person - a diligent student of Buddhism who had been meditating for a number of years Ñ why should writing apparently be able to achieve something that more conventional spiritual practices could not?"