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Deborah Ratner Helzer's Dharma Talks
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.
2019-05-08 Skillful Effort 58:46
What are the qualities of skillful effort, and how does it cooperate with mindfulness and concentration.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat
2018-12-20 Closing Meditation And Guidance 39:10
Suggestions for coming out of retreat and taking the practice home.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-12-18 Introduction To Insight 49:21
Including an overview of the three universal characteristics.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-12-16 Beginning Instructions and Guided Meditation 40:19
Posture, Anchor, General Awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-08-10 Walking The Eightfold Path 57:06
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat
2018-08-09 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 48:26
Self, benefactor, friend, neutral and difficult person plus a Metta "family portrait"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat
2018-08-06 The Two Darts 52:31
Some thoughts on the awareness of empirical reality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat
2018-08-05 Guided Metta Meditation 60:34
Introduction to the practice, working with self and benefactor.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat
2018-05-02 Insight and Equanimity 54:23
The Buddha said that the peace of equanimity is the greatest happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Natural Wisdom and Compassion: Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-04-29 Causes And Conditions 48:44
Recognizing and relating to our conditioning in a skillful way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Natural Wisdom and Compassion: Insight Meditation Retreat

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