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Knowing What’s Really Happening: Experience vs. Interpretation
A crucial skill for minimizing emotional chaos and sustaining clarity in your life is the ability to distinguish between your experience and your interpretation of your experience.A crucial skill...
Patience and Persistence: Two Empowerments from the Paramis
Living in this realm brings inevitable stress, physical and mental pain, and disorientation from constant change. This has never been more true than during the Covid-19 pandemic of the past year....
Arriving Meditation: Establishing Mindfulness and Presence
When we fully arrive both internally and externally, we create the conditions for mindfulness to take root and for presence to arise. With mindfulness and presence, we are in a place where we are...
Do We Dare To Create A Blank Page?
As we begin this new year, we are coming out of the darkest time of the year and we are starting to notice the return of the light. Our journey towards wisdom follows a similar cycle of light and...
Guided Mindful Movement — Lying on the Floor
Find ease and release in this gentle, guided mindful movement sequence led by Phillip Moffitt. All the movements are practiced lying on the floor.Dharma Wisdom with Phillip Moffitt · Guided Mindful...
Guided Metta: Forgiveness
You practice forgiveness for your own sake, to not be locked in anger, fear, and resentment. Resentment, whether cold fury or smoldering rage, hardens your emotions, narrows your options in...
Dharma Talk: Navel Gazing
It's easy to confuse mindfulness and "navel gazing." Mindfulness is contemplation, inquiry, and self-reflection. When you become obsessive in your contemplation, it leads to navel gazing. Ask...
Freeing the Mind and Heart – Dharma Talk
As best you can, are you able to let go in this very moment?Dharma Wisdom with Phillip Moffitt · Freeing the Mind and Heart
Recommit To Your Practice
Trust your capacity to practice and find liberation for your mind/heart. Commitment collects and unifies the mind. You are not imprisoned by your past; you are capable of empowerment, change, and...
Letting Go
The practice of letting go is very effective for minds obsessed by compulsive thinking. You simplify your meditation practice down to two words: let go.—Ajahn SumedhoDharma Wisdom with Phillip...
The Empowerment of Equanimity
Equanimity is a key concept in vipassana practice. When the mind has equanimity and something pleasant arises, you experience the moment without trying to hold onto it and creating tension. If...
Dharma Wisdom – Talk
In this audio talk, Phillip Moffitt explains the meaning of the term "dharma wisdom." Dharma means “truth” or “the way things are” and also refers to the teachings of the Buddha. Dharma wisdom has...
Disappointment
How can we live with disappointment? Moffitt details how the dharma is helpful when we are experiencing the three fields of disappointment: when we anticipate disappointment, when it has arisen, and...
Doubt
Doubt is the fifth of the Five Hindrances, which the Buddha taught. Moffitt considers doubt to be the most devastating of the hindrances because when it arises and overwhelms the mind, the mind...
The Hindrances As Allies
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...
Making Changes
At the start of a new year, an appropriate question is: how should we view the desire for change in the context of a mindfulness practice? Is this desire for change legitimate, or is this just...
Forgiveness
What is forgiveness? Can one cease to feel resentment? When we are unable to forgive we create a self that suffers. Remembering that the Buddha taught that all human beings want to be happy, we can...
Compassion
Part 1 Karuna, or compassion, is a state of mind/heart that can be cultivated as a practice. Compassion is an intuitive response to someone else's suffering, or your own. In this talk, Phillip...
Trust
Part 1 What is trust from the standpoint of the dharma? Trust takes myriad forms including: interpersonal trust (of self, institutions, teachers, the body, intuition, feelings), trust of the dharma,...
Papanca Mind
In the Theravada tradition, papanca mind refers to proliferation of thought or reactions, or the expansion of thoughts, reactions, and diffuseness. While papanca is neutral (impersonal), its effect...