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Renunciation Practice
A Talk by Phillip Moffitt
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Practicing renunciation can change our relationship to fear, enhance our clarity, offer relief, and empower us by freeing us from the tyranny of the ego. We learn that attachment to being right does not make us more effective in the world.
Date of talk: August 10, 2008
Length: 64 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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