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Phillip Moffitt's Dharma Talks
Phillip Moffitt
Phillip Moffitt is co-guiding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the founder of the Life Balance Institute. He teaches vipassana (insight) meditation and is the author of two books: "Dancing with Life," which explores the Four Noble Truths, and "Emotional Chaos to Clarity." More information can be found at: www.dharmawisdom.org.
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2014-08-20
Metta Practice, Day 5
2020-10-03
"Patience and Persevering: Two Empowerments from the Paramis"
2020-10-04
"The Arriving Meditation” for establishing mindfulness and presence
2014-09-30
"The Four Paths to Freedom" - An Overview
2020-10-08
"The Three Groupings Meditation for Deeper Understanding of the Paramis”
2023-03-10
A Gladdening of the Mind (Pamojja) Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-03-04
A Naturally Arising Approach to Vedena (Feeling Tone) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-10-07
A New Method for Working with the Paramis in Your Practice
2008-05-13
Acknowledging The Elephant In The Room
2013-05-20
An Introduction to Awakening in the Body
2022-08-15
An Overview to Concentration Practice
2015-07-20
As Practice Matters
2016-03-23
Awareness: The Still/Flowing Water
2023-03-20
Balancing the Brahma Viharas for Insight and Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-06-02
Beginner's Mind: The Bio-Suit
2009-04-23
Being Available for the Breath
2025-01-06
Being available leads to choice and how we relate to our experience
2013-05-24
Body as Liberation
2014-03-21
Brahma Vihara Practice
2014-03-02
Brahma Vihara Practice Day 1
2014-03-07
Brahma Vihara Practice Day 6
2007-10-09
Breath Meditation
2020-02-29
Brief Intro to Felt Sense of Satipatthana
2009-04-23
Choosing to Walk the Path of Wisdom
2011-04-30
Commitment to Intimacy, Equanimity & Continuity
2011-04-01
Connecting with the Earth
2023-03-16
Cultivating the Paramis from the Perspective of Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2008-06-05
Dancing With Life
2008-06-16
Dancing With Life
2011-04-01
Dancing with Life
2019-08-19
Day 1 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-09
Day 12: Brahma Vihara Instructions
2017-03-09
Day 12: Morning Sit with Instructions
2017-03-12
Day 15: Brahma Vihara Instructions
2017-03-16
Day 19: Brahma Vihara Instructions
2017-03-20
Day 23: Brahma Vihara Instructions
2019-10-20
Day 3 Guided Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-03-05
Day 5 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-02
Day 5: Morning Sit with Instructions
2019-08-25
Day 7 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-03-07
Day 8 - Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-10-01
Dialogue on aspects of freedom.
2021-09-28
Earth Element guided instruction
2014-05-08
Embodied Awareness of the Four Noble Truths
2010-06-04
Embodied Mindfulness as a Path to Liberation
2012-10-11
Emotional Chaos to Clarity
2014-03-11
Exploring Piti Coming From Gladness
2013-05-25
Exploring Stillness and Movement
2015-08-29
Exploring the Dharma through Poetry.
Part 1 of 4
2015-08-29
Exploring the Dharma through Poetry.
Part 2 of 4
2015-08-29
Exploring the Dharma through Poetry.
Part 3 of 4
2015-08-29
Exploring the Dharma through Poetry.
Part 4 of 4
2011-04-26
Exploring the Three Dimensions of Concentration
2008-01-07
Faith, Intention & The Precepts: Three Steps To Deepen Your Practice
2011-01-29
Finding Ease with Emotions
2026-06-11
Fireside Chat on Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-08-18
From Directed Attention to Absorption (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-08-24
From Samadhi to Wisdom via Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-10-04
Getting Our Ducks in a Row: Satipatthana and the Seven Factors of Awakening
2012-08-14
Getting To Know the Neighborhood of Concentration
2002-04-22
Gratitude And Trust
2015-07-20
Guided Meditation
2022-04-24
Guided Meditation for Experiencing Boundless Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-03-06
Guided Meditation on the Field of Forgiveness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-03-17
Guided Meditation: Abiding in Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-10-02
Guided Metta: Forgiveness
2022-01-03
Hidden Dimensions of Making Change
2012-08-18
How Intention and Energy Support Concentration
2017-03-22
How Patience and Resolve Cultivate Equanimity
2024-01-01
How the Dharma Empowers Making Change in Our Daily Lives
2011-03-28
How to Fully Receive Experience
2019-10-22
How Vedana Conditions the Moment (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-03-03
Inquiry into the Subtle Structure of the Satipatthana
2010-08-21
Jhana States: From Movement to Stillness
2016-08-26
Knowing and a Stillness in Samadhi
2022-04-27
Knowing that know that you know--awareness being known here and now (Retreat at…
2014-05-12
Learning & Creativity With Ed Catmull & Phillip Moffitt
2026-01-05
Letting Go Dharma Talk
2021-10-01
Letting go meditation
2014-03-19
Liberation Now Leads to Full Liberating Awareness
2017-03-08
Liberative Dependent Arising: Gladness & Rapture (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-15
Liberative Dependent Arising: Knowledge and Vision of Anatta
2012-07-09
Living Skillfully With the Difficult
2012-01-02
Meditation Lead: Grounding the wind element in the earth element.
2013-04-16
Meditation On Sustaining attention or awareness.
2011-09-15
Meditation with Instructions
2009-04-22
Metta for the Emotional Body
2019-10-24
Metta Practice- Forgiveness for Radiating Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-06-10
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2019-09-16
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2020-01-06
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2014-10-03
Morning Guided Instructions - Vedana
2014-10-06
Morning Guided Instructions: Open and Spacious
2013-08-14
Morning Instructions Day 2
2012-08-20
Morning Instructions Day Seven
2013-08-18
Morning Instructions; Day 6
2014-08-21
Morning Instructions: Gladdening the Mind
2012-08-16
Morning Instructions: Day Three
2026-01-05
Naturally Arising Meditation
2016-09-19
Nothing to Hold Onto
2009-02-18
Now That You Know, What Do You Know?
2009-02-02
Paradox Of Desire
2010-10-24
Patience and Determination Make Change Possible
2013-05-13
Patience and Perseverence
2013-08-15
Radiating Metta Practice Day 3
2019-08-19
Release the Tension, Building Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-04-06
Renew and Revitalize: Sustaining Yourself as a Care Provider
2013-11-17
Resting in Awakened Awareness: A Better Way to Live
2026-06-11
Resting in Spacious Knowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-08-12
Retreat Opening
2003-03-17
Right Intention & Mixed Motives
2009-04-26
Rising and Falling of Sensation
2015-08-11
Samadhi as a Practice and as Result
2009-02-15
Second Noble Truth And The Hindrances
2018-10-01
Seven Awakening Factors - Monday Night Dharma Talk (with opening meditation)
2016-03-09
Starting Where You Are
2022-04-26
Stillness and Movement, Awareness and Mind Moments (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-05-11
Talk and Meditation on Mindfulness of Emotions
2014-07-21
The 3 aspects of Mindfulness...
2020-12-13
The Art and Practice of Forgiveness
2000-08-14
The Dharma According to Dante (Part 1)
2000-08-14
The Dharma According to Dante Pt 1
2008-12-03
The Embodied Journey
2011-10-27
The Empowerment of Equanimity
2014-11-10
The End of Suffering
2023-01-02
The Five Spiritual Powers
2020-03-05
The Four Noble Truths as the Twelve Insights (Part 1)
2017-03-01
The Hindrances as Your Teachers
2015-08-15
The Interplay of Stillness and Movement in Samadhi
2013-04-18
The Metta Of Awareness and The Awareness of Metta
2007-11-08
The Mystery Of Stillness
2013-08-13
The Necessity of Samadhi
2012-01-02
The New You in the New Year
2013-04-15
The Refuge In Awareness
2009-10-13
The Sangha is the Body of the Dharma
2008-03-08
The Three Values Of Equanimity
2019-10-18
The Unfolding of the Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-08-20
The Variety of Samadhi Experience
2016-08-22
The What, Why and How of Samadhi
2014-03-05
Third Foundation and Compassionate Mindfulness
2016-03-17
To Care and Not to Care: Penetrating Equanimity
1999-10-09
Using The Hindrances As Allies
2025-01-06
Utilizing the four noble truths for how you relate to your life
2013-08-17
Walking the Samadhi Trail
2014-05-04
What Does It Mean to Awaken in the Body?
2008-08-22
Why Exchange Sukkha For Dukkha
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Select one of Phillip Moffitt's 43 retreats
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1900-01-01
IMCB Regular Talks
1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2007-06-01
Awakening In The Body: Meditation And Qi Gong
2007-10-08
Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1
2007-11-01
Insight Meditation Retreat
2008-05-11
Awakening in the Body
2008-08-17
Concentration
2008-12-02
Three Centers Retreat: Eye of Wisdom; Heart of Compassion; Body of Awakening
2009-02-13
The Twelve Insights of the Four Noble Truths
2009-04-20
Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers #3
2009-10-13
Living the Dharma in Daily Life
2010-06-02
Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong
2010-08-16
Concentration Retreat
2010-10-21
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-01-24
Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training #1
2011-04-25
Concentration
2011-09-12
Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers Program (Retreat 2)
2011-10-19
Fall Insight Retreat
2012-05-06
Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)
2012-08-13
Concentration Retreat
2013-04-12
The Nature of Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students
2013-05-20
Awakening in the Body Retreat
2013-08-12
Concentration Retreat
2013-11-13
Exploring Awareness
2014-03-01
March Month Long Retreat
2014-05-03
Awakening in the Body
2014-08-15
Concentration Retreat
2014-09-29
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-08-10
Concentration
2016-02-27
March Monthlong
2016-08-21
Concentration Retreat
2017-02-25
March Monthlong Retreat
2017-08-14
Concentration Retreat
2019-08-18
Concentration Retreat
2019-10-17
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2020-02-29
March Monthlong
2020-10-02
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilv…
2021-09-26
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-04-21
Exploring Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners
2022-08-14
Cultivating Concentration
2022-12-27
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2023-02-25
March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat
2026-06-07
Exploring Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners
2011-04-30
Commitment to Intimacy, Equanimity & Continuity
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The practice of samadhi requires commitment to wise effort towards concentration. it requires overcoming resistance to concentration, to be willing to feel intimacy with teh object. The fruit of commitment to concentration is one-pointed equanimity. Concentration can be considered om five different qualities from dedication to steadiness.
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