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.
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Audio Dharma Talks
Choiceless awareness is when we cease to choose an object for meditation and take the knowing of objects one after another as our meditation.
Why does Buddhism dwell on suffering instead of happiness?
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.
Phillip answers students' questions on dharma, practice and disappointment.
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.
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.
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.
