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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.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation utilizing the naturally arising, felt-sense practice method to explore how to abide in the Brama Viharas to deepen your practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation utilizing the naturally arising, felt-sense approach to abiding in space. Directly experiencing the fifth element through a gradual process.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk on the 3 Group approach to the Paramis from the perspective of wisdom. The first group provides a protective base for meditation practice, the second group encourages a dynamic vigor, the third group enhances mind and heart for meditation practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation utilizing the naturally arising felt-sense approach to gladdening the mind (pamojja) beginning with the Arriving Sequence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation utilizing the naturally arising and felt-sense approach, discovering the field of forgiveness. Introducing a practice for allowing the field of forgiveness to emerge.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation utilizing the naturally arising felt sense approach to vedena (feeling tone) including beginning with the Arriving Sequence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The three part arriving practice prepares the mind-heart for both vipassana and samadhi practice. It is preliminary meditation that establishes mindfulness, calm, and orientation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An introduction to a new approach to practice. A movement from a results based orientation to "Practicing Practice."
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A Guide for Understanding the how and why of Concentration practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Fully established mindfulness that is aligned with the dharma allows the mind to become so still that an intuitive felt sense of awareness can arises that knows it knows awareness is like this...
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Discovering the Stillness of the Mind that illuminates the ever changing individualized moments of consciousness
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A step by step practice for directly experiencing boundless space
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Inspired by the Venerable Sumedho, the "letting go" meditation is a simple but powerful meditation practice. It is an effective antidote to thinking mind challenges.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The art of forgiveness begins with connecting to the heart. The practice involves learning skills such as metta, mindful acknowledgement, and compassion. Practicing these skills enables you to free yourself from painful identification with past events. This is a day to bring remorse or grief about past actions and move beyond feelings of guilt and shame. Likewise, if someone has wronged you, you will be guided toward holding them in accountability without closing your heart. Additionally, forgiveness practice will move you toward clarity and acceptance for the ways you have let yourself down. Practicing forgiveness allows you to move from a heavy, remorseful heart and a reactive mind to a heart that’s light but still feels regret, and a mind that is calm and clear. The day will be held with periods of guided silent sitting and walking meditation practice, instruction in the art and practice of forgiveness, and a forgiveness ceremony, with opportunities to ask questions to the instructors.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The path from aiming and abstaining to deepest absorption.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk from Phillip Moffitt recorded at Spirit Rock on September 19, 2016.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In concentration practice we discover the mystery of knowing and that which knows.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Having clarity as to what is concentration practice, know why it is essential and how it manifest creates the ground of faith in the practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The unborn, unmanifested phenomenon of awareness is available as a true refuge amidst changing objects.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Equanimity is the culmination of the seven factors of awakening. Its sublime and subtle aspects can greatly strengthen practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A description of how clearly seeing the 5 aggregates can bring freedom from clinging in any moment. This clear seeing allows us to start where you are in your practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When examined closely through direct experience the beautiful blueprint of the Satipatthana is revealed in subtlety and hidden dimensions.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Awaken to the dharma wisdom that is contained in poetry and experience the power of poetry to inspire our spiritual practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Awaken to the dharma wisdom that is contained in poetry and experience the power of poetry to inspire our spiritual practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Awaken to the dharma wisdom that is contained in poetry and experience the power of poetry to inspire our spiritual practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Awaken to the dharma wisdom that is contained in poetry and experience the power of poetry to inspire our spiritual practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Developing samma samadhi is in part becoming mindful of the many dimensions of movement and stillness as they interplay.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) There is wisdom in exploring concentration practice as a skilled means which one is intentionally developing. And, there is wisdom in exploring concentration as a phenomenon of a contented mind. This is the distinction of smatha or samadhi.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Multiple suggestions for firming up the practice at this point, riding the momentum of a collected, unified mind. Includes 'Gladdening of the Mind' guided meditation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Ed Catmull of president of Pixar and Disney Studios, discusses with Phillip Moffitt working with creativity, intention and learning.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Every mind state can be met with dignity, even difficult mind states. Thus we move from reactive to responsive mind states.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Beginning the practice; opening to felt sense of experience
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk presenst a map establishing the tools and methods utilized in moving from ordinary mind states to samadhi. The first part of the journey involves attaining a collected and unified mind. The second part of the journey moves us into deep absorption.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Samadhi is both a key practice and vital understanding in practice. It is impossible to separate vipassana and samadhi as each needs each other. Yet, each needs to be developed in it's own right as is reflected in the Buddha's teachings.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploration of mindfulness of the body. The Buddha's First Foundation of satipatthana offers many opportunities for insight. As the Buddha said, if we master the body (in meditation) we can master the mind!
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Directed meditation beginning with becoming grounded in the body, then breath, then awareness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring nature of awareness is necessary because it is subtle. Do so by taking awareness as our object of meditation. What does it mean to "rest" in awareness. Role of faith in exploration.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Collecting and unifying the mind requires both the immediacy of intention and the energy for patience and persistence. Developing clarity of intention and utilizing the three kind of energy may deepen your experience of concentration.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) There are many aspects and dimensions that are part of what we call concentration. Rather than take a fixed view of what your concentration practice is supposed to be like, why not take a tour of the neighborhood?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Skillful and unskillful ways to be mindful of emotions. Common misperceptions that make working with emotions difficult in meditation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How mindfulness and compassion facilitate change. Change can be external or internal and be of three types.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Renunciation and earth and air elements; guided meditation
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) 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.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Concentration can be explored as a function of mind, as an essential and distinct part of the path of liberation and as a "felt experience" in this very moment. Each exploration deepens understanding and empowers concentration.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Fully receiving experience is a key component in mindfulness that leads to insite.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The 3rd foundation can be utilized to gain insight into how to work with strong emotions. So often there is confusion between emotions and our relationship to them.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Patience and Persistence (Determination) are the paramis that can bring change to our practices and to our lives. They are the perfect twins-they support and empower one another. Each is to be developed separately but needs the other for fruition. Together they create possibility unto-fore unimagined.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Jhana means non-distraction achieved by the removal of distractions from the mind. As the distraction of mind are removed, the mind state moves from coarseness to more fine states into stillness and equanimity.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The vital difference between mindfulness and right mindfulness. What does it mean to have direct experience of the body? Simple practices to develop the "felt sense" of the body.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) As the part of understanding the three insights of the 4th Noble Truth as practice, it is vital to use"what is path" and to recognize it when it arises.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) There are three insights to practice and realize is the second Noble Truth. All are built around realizing the cause of suffering. The hindrance of mind when they arise are an opportunity to practice this releasing.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Opening to mindfulness of the body is both the beginning of practice and the vehicle that carries you through the practice as the "felt sense." Embodied presence through awareness of the body is one of the fruits of practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Once you learn to find a calm abiding of the mind there are many kinds of joy and bliss that may arise. Yet, you are asked to turn your calm mind to the practice of insight in order to experience the dukkha the Buddha describes in the First Noble Truth. Why give bliss (sukkha) for dukkha.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Awareness of the body in the body is a key part of the Dharma. Yet, many times the body is not fully explored in its many dimensions of offering both a means for being present in the moment and finding freedom from clinging.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The training precepts can be utilized for living the dharma in daily life, but to be most effective they need a foundation of faith and intention. Also, by stating the precepts positively and in an expanded fashion, we can find new opportunities for mindfulness and insight.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our daily lives are filled with desire, yet desire leads to suffering. How do we reconcile the paradox between caring love and non-attachment?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided basic meditation on the breath, following coming into the present moment through the body.
(Unknown) A guided meditation leading to an exploration of the first foundation of mindfulness. Questions addressed include: why focus on the body and how the body relates to the other foundations.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Right intention is the point of freedom in life. Its cultivation is how we come into meaning and relatedness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to be in the moment in the face of life difficulties. How to live “into life” in the presence of loss and death. The power of gratitude and trust, and ways to cultivate them as mindfulness practice.
(Unknown) The hindrances are mental states that obstruct our ability to practice. In various distinct ways, they disrupt concentration and distort awareness so that when they occur we are unable to see things as they are. These states bring challenges yet as our practice deepens and matures, they in fact become allies on the path.