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Cultivating Calm in Meditation
Meditation can help you to cultivate the ability to be calm, which can lead to equanimity. Equanimity is a steady quality of the mind that can receive any experience without being overcome by it. It is through equanimity that you are able stay with and examine difficult mind states and learn to release them.
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Date of talk: September 4, 2011
Length: 45 minutes
Phillip Moffitt
At the peak of his career, former CEO and Editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine, Phillip Moffitt, traded in his worldly aspirations to explore the inner life. He subsequently founded the Life Balance Institute and now teaches vipassana meditation with an emphasis on living the dharma in daily life. Phillip is a co-guiding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the author of Dancing with Life.
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Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in Everyday Life
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