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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.

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Phillip Moffitt: The Metta Of Awareness and The Awareness of Metta 18.04.2013 1:03:15

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Phillip Moffitt: Meditation On Sustaining attention or awareness. 16.04.2013 59:12

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Directed meditation beginning with becoming grounded in the body, then breath, then awareness

Phillip Moffitt: The Refuge In Awareness 15.04.2013 1:02:02

(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.

Phillip Moffitt: Emotional Chaos to Clarity 11.10.2012 1:04:40

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)

Phillip Moffitt: Morning Instructions Day Seven 20.08.2012 57:16

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Phillip Moffitt: How Intention and Energy Support Concentration 18.08.2012 1:02:40

(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.

Phillip Moffitt: Morning Instructions: Day Three 16.08.2012 56:17

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Phillip Moffitt: Getting To Know the Neighborhood of Concentration 14.08.2012 1:04:55

(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?

Phillip Moffitt: Living Skillfully With the Difficult 09.07.2012 59:56

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Phillip Moffitt: Talk and Meditation on Mindfulness of Emotions 11.05.2012 1:03:43

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Skillful and unskillful ways to be mindful of emotions. Common misperceptions that make working with emotions difficult in meditation.

Phillip Moffitt: The New You in the New Year 02.01.2012 1:00:27

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How mindfulness and compassion facilitate change. Change can be external or internal and be of three types.

Phillip Moffitt: Meditation Lead: Grounding the wind element in the earth element. 02.01.2012 42:20

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Phillip Moffitt: The Empowerment of Equanimity 27.10.2011 1:05:19

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Phillip Moffitt: Meditation with Instructions 15.09.2011 17:35

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Renunciation and earth and air elements; guided meditation

Phillip Moffitt: Commitment to Intimacy, Equanimity & Continuity 30.04.2011 1:05:39

(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.

Phillip Moffitt: Exploring the Three Dimensions of Concentration 26.04.2011 58:25

(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.

Phillip Moffitt: Connecting with the Earth 01.04.2011 27:26

(Common Ground Meditation Center) Guided Meditation

Phillip Moffitt: Dancing with Life 01.04.2011 1:16:48

(Common Ground Meditation Center) Guest Dharma Talk

Phillip Moffitt: How to Fully Receive Experience 28.03.2011 1:05:50

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Fully receiving experience is a key component in mindfulness that leads to insite.

Phillip Moffitt: Finding Ease with Emotions 29.01.2011 1:02:46

(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.

Phillip Moffitt: Patience and Determination Make Change Possible 24.10.2010 1:04:30

(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.

Phillip Moffitt: Jhana States: From Movement to Stillness 21.08.2010 1:04:46

(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.

Phillip Moffitt: Embodied Mindfulness as a Path to Liberation 04.06.2010 1:05:15

(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.

Phillip Moffitt: The Sangha is the Body of the Dharma 13.10.2009 50:56

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Phillip Moffitt: Rising and Falling of Sensation 26.04.2009 41:24

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)