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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.
2017-05-05 Suffering and Its Causes 58:53
The first and second noble truths: the three flavors of dukkha and the three varieties of craving.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat
2017-05-04 Guided Loving Kindness Practice 59:23
Working with dear friends and neutral beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat
2017-03-11 Morning instructions 8:27
Working with hindrances and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating a Wise Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-08-12 Morning instructions and Q/A 62:44
Opening to awareness of wholesome mental states and ideas about self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration
2016-08-11 The factors of awakening 61:12
Working with wholesome mental states
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration
2016-08-09 Morning instructions and Q&A 62:04
Letting nature take it's course
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration
2016-08-08 Trusting our experience 53:06
The unfolding of our practice is a natural, organic process
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration
2016-08-06 Morning instructions 53:03
Easing gently into the retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration
2016-07-26 The practice of truthfulness 52:52
Honesty, both outwardly and inwardly, informs every aspect of our spiritual path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-07-19 The wisdom of disenchantment 56:30
As our understanding matures, we naturally outgrow ways of seeing happiness that don't work
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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