​Peter Doobinin is the author of Skillful Pleasure, The Skill of Living, Daylight Saving Time, and Suburban Boy.  Skillful Pleasure and The Skill of Living are the product of his many years teaching the dharma, the Buddha's path of wisdom and compassion.  The novels Daylight Saving Time and Suburban Boy are the first two books in his projected "Long Island trilogy."   
  
After working in the publishing industry, Peter left in 1998 to pursue less worldly interests.  Peter is the guiding teacher of New York Dharma.  He's also been a founder of New York Insight, Downtown Meditation Community, and Berlin Dharma.  He's taught the dharma for more than 20 years.  He lives in New York City.

                       Skillful Pleasure

                                 Skillful Pleasure describes the Buddha's path for                                               developing a skillful relationship to pleasure.

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Daylight Saving Time

                                    Daylight Saving Time is the second novel in Peter                                      Doobinin's projected "Long Island trilogy."               

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                          Suburban Boy

                                       Suburban Boy is the first novel in the Long                                                            Island triology.  The trilogy offers a depiction                                                        of an essential facet of American History:  the                                                      Baby Boom suburbs of the mid-twentieth                                                            century.                                                   

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                            The Skill of Living

                                           The Skill of Living explicates the Buddha’s                                                             path for developing skillful qualities.                            

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from Skillful Pleasure

"When we’re established in a state of pleasure, we’re able to function at an optimal level.  To quote Walt Whitman, we find an “unfailing sufficiency.”  Nowadays, scientists and the like refer to the notion of the “flow state,” in speaking to the condition in which we function in a fully engaged and highly focused manner.  When we’re in a so-called flow state, according to the standard description, the body is pervaded with ease, pleasure.  This, of course, is because there must be a quality of pleasure in the body if we’re going to enter a flow state.  The mind inclines to pleasure because this is the most favorable state; it’s the state in which we’ll be able to get “in the zone.”  It’s said that we come into the flow state when we become “fully immersed” in an activity.  But as the Buddha realized, in order to fully immerse ourselves in any activity – if it’s meditation, writing, bowling, or gardening – there needs to be, in the body, a quality of pleasure."