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Audio Dharma Talks

From 1998 until the end of 2013, Phillip Moffitt gave a dharma talk to the Marin Sangha nearly every Sunday evening. Many of those talks, as well as some that were recorded at Spirit Rock are available for downloading from the dharmawisdom.org audio library. New talks are posted frequently, so check back often to hear recent ones.

To download one of Phillip's talks, right click on the mp3 file name. A menu will pop up that allows you to save the link wherever you'd like. To right click, press the control button on your keyboard and click your mouse. If this doesn't work, it probably means your browser settings won't allow you to do it, so you need to change your browser settings or try a different browser.

Audio Dharma Talks

Sacrifice of Love
December 22, 2012

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Downside of the Upside
October 14, 2012

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Are you at unease with good fortune? Do you have a fear of success? Are you nervous when you experience metta? Learn about the seven downsides of the upside.

Marin Sangha Q & A with Phillip Moffitt
September 16, 2012

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Phillip answers students' questions on dharma, practice and disappointment.

From Fear to Clarity
September 2, 2012

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How Intention and Energy Support Concentration
August 18, 2012

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Learn to collect and unify the mind. As you develop your concentration practice, you access more energy and it becomes more available to your mindfulness practice. When you have energy and not equanimity, you will feel restless and worried. Equanimity without energy=sloth. We need a lot of energy for patience and persistence. Patience allows us to practice accepting what is. Persistence allows us to continue to start over.

The Importance of Concentration
August 14, 2012

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Concentration is the ability to direct your attention and to sustain it so that it becomes collected and unified. When concentration and mindfulness are combined, you learn how to direct and sustain your attention on a single experience, rather than letting the mind jump from one thought or feeling to another.

Identifying Delusion
August 12, 2012

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Delusion comes from our persistence of something that is false or distorted, even if it's only for a moment. Chances are you are not a fully enlightened being; therefore, expecting yourself to be perfect is a form of delusion. One characteristic of delusion, misperception, is when we believe what is unpleasurable to be pleasurable. This can lead us to act in an unskillful way.

Living with the Difficult
July 8, 2012

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Do you believe that you are capable of living with a major difficulty in a skillful way? The untrained mind naturally reacts unskillfully to difficulties. When confronted with a difficult experience, the untrained mind wants to be anywhere but in the present moment, where it perceives acute unpleasantness. So rather than staying with the experience and determining the best possible way to relate to it, the mind jumps to creating a story that involves worrying about the future or judging oneself or others. When you stop objecting to the difficult, two benefits arise: you suffer less, and you have more energy at your disposal to skillfully deal with the difficult when it arises.

Insight Practice
April 1, 2012

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The way to free the mind from suffering is through gaining insight into what truly is. Insight is a profound level of understanding that transcends mere intellectual cognition and can only be known by experiencing it. One of the tools for gaining insight is mindfulness, the ability to be fully aware in the moment. The insights that arise through mindfulness release the mind from getting caught in reactivity and can even stop the cycle from beginning.

Three Levels of Knowing
March 11, 2012

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To know something deeply, we must first gather information, realize the implications of the information, and then cultivate an understanding of the information that is deep enough so that we can create a temporary respite from suffering. This can also be described as a three-step path of information, knowledge, and realization. At each stage of awareness you create less suffering for yourself and others, independent of your mind state in any moment.

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Phillip Moffitt

At the peak of his career, former CEO and Editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine, Phillip Moffitt, traded in his worldly aspirations to explore the inner life. He subsequently founded the Life Balance Institute and now teaches vipassana meditation with an emphasis on living the dharma in daily life. Phillip is a co-guiding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the author of Emotional Chaos to Clarity and Dancing with Life.

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Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and in Everyday Life.

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