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Deborah Ratner Helzer's Dharma Talks
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Deborah Ratner Helzer has practiced with Western and Asian teachers in the Theravada tradition since 1995, including a year as a nun in Burma. She has been teaching in the Washington, DC area and assisting with retreats around the country since 2001.
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2025-07-03 Opening to Insight 50:43
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation with Kamala Masters, Steve Armstrong and Deborah Helzer
2025-07-02 Instructions Day 5 51:28
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation with Kamala Masters, Steve Armstrong and Deborah Helzer
2025-02-24 The Hindrances and Insight 56:26
How our experience of the hindrances interacts with our understanding of impermanence and emptiness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2025-02-11 The Hindrances and Mindfulness 47:27
There is tremendous power in being mindful in the midst of the hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2025-02-04 The Hindrances and Concentration 51:33
How the hindrances interfere with concentration, and the Buddha's instructions for dealing with them
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2024-10-30 Guided Reflection: Great Blessings 36:48
Exploring the wholesome aspects of our lives included in the Maha Mangala Sutta.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-29 Paramis in Practice: Renunciation 54:55
The whole of the path is about letting go.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-23 Practicing Awareness of Intention 13:12
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-22 Paramis in Practice: Patience 42:05
Patience is the supreme virtue.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-21 Guided Reflection: Factors of Awakening 36:32
Can we identify and feel the factors of awakening in our present moment experience?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-16 Morning Reflection: What are we offering? 14:00
How does the parami of generosity relate to our meditation?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-15 Paramis in Practice: Honesty and Resolve 47:15
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-14 Guided Reflection: No Body, No Self 44:50
Exploring the empty nature of the physical body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-09 Guided Reflection: Sense of Self 20:21
Exploring the perception of personality in experiences
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-08 Relating to Meditation Skillfully 48:17
Some helpful and not so helpful attitudes we may bring to our meditation as experienced yogis.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-07 Guided Reflection: Opening to Impermanence 43:04
A consideration of impermanence inspired by a gentle rain
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-10-05 Guided Reflection: Opening to Hindrances 42:06
An attitude of gratitude and acceptance.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024
2024-08-12 Following the predominant object 60:57
Instructions for "choice awareness" from the Mahasi perspective
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method
2024-08-10 Relative and absolute 54:35
What are these two layers of reality and how do we relate to them in life and meditation?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method
2024-08-09 Morning Instructions – thinking 59:33
Some suggestions for noting and noticing thoughts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method
2024-08-08 Beginning lovingkindness practice 58:09
Connecting with a sense of caring for oneself and a benefactor figure
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method
2024-08-07 Introduction to the Mahasi method 57:10
Some history and key features of Mahasi style practice: working with primary objects, noting, momentary concentration, and balanced effort
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method
2024-07-04 Three Functions of Insight 60:58
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation
2024-06-30 Mindfulness and Perception 58:26
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation
2023-08-11 Guided loving-kindness meditation 44:07
The five beings, and all beings (no phrases)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart's Release

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