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Meditation on the Elements
This meditation focuses on experiencing the “earth element” in the body and how the Earth supports it.
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Date of talk: April 11, 2010
Length: 41 minutes
Beginning with “sitting in the bones” — our Earth element — we experience how our Earth element is supported by the Earth itself. We then turn our attention to experiencing our air element — the breath — in the abdomen, chest, and nostrils.
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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