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Deborah Ratner Helzer's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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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2010-08-09 Recipe For Insight: The 7 Factors Of Enlightenment 60:10
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What are the qualities that we need to cultivate in order to prepare the ground for wisdom to sprout?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity
2010-08-08 Guided Metta with Q&A 60:07
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2010-07-02 Everything and Nothing: Mindfulness in Family Life 46:25
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In meditation, we look to see if we can break through our mistaken sense of self. How can we look in our relationships to break through our sense of other?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Family Retreat
2009-08-15 The 8-Fold Path in Daily Life. 55:43
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What are the elements that we need for a productive and satisfying spiritual life in the world? What do we ned and not need to worry about?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity
2009-08-12 Morning Instructions 64:01
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2009-08-11 Expectations and Explorations 51:55
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The ways in which our expectations for practice trip us up, and how they can be transformed into aspirations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity
2009-08-08 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 49:28
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The scope of the practice is vast. It encompasses everything we can possibly experience. The Buddha spelled it all out in this teaching.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity
2009-07-12 Equanimity in Family Life 47:04
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The ways that we get caught in holding on, and the ways that we can learn to let go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Family Retreat
2008-08-15 Morning Instructions 58:58
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Letting go of technique
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat
2008-08-14 The Two Truths 52:06
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What is conceptual reality? What is absolute reality? How can we cultivate awareness of absolute reality? Why Bother?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat

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