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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.
2012-08-08 Metta Instructions - Neutral Person 48:01
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-08-08 Morning Instructions Day #5 62:13
Recognizing Absolute Reality
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-08-07 Relative And Absolute 66:48
Our lives play out on these two levels of reality - can we learn to open to and understand them both?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-08-06 Guided Metta 49:24
Near and far enemies
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-08-04 Expectations 49:07
Expectations on a journey of exploration. We never know where we might land - can we let go of expectations and be open to what comes?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2010-08-14 Instructions Day 8 50:58
Observing experiences and the natural awareness of them as they arise and pass together; no-self, reincarnation, karma.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight and the Art of Equanimity
2010-08-13 The Process Of Insight: Seeing Nama-Rupa 62:16
Vipassana Insight arises out of the clear and balanced observation of mental and physical experiences just as they are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight and the Art of Equanimity
2010-08-09 Recipe For Insight: The 7 Factors Of Enlightenment 60:10
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
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight and the Art of Equanimity
2010-07-02 Everything and Nothing: Mindfulness in Family Life 46:25
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

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