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- Event: 10 day Vipassana Retreat led by Jack Kornfield, with Phillip Moffitt
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- Event: Changes and Transitions in Your 30s and 40s: How to Stay True to Yourself
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- Event: Daylong for Therapists and Helping Professionals
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- Event: Insight Meditation Retreat
- Event: Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (MYMT II) - Retreat #1
- Event: Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (MYMT II) - Retreat #2
- Event: Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (MYMT II) - Retreat #3
- Event: Non Residential Retreat
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- Event: Public Evening
- Event: Rochester Sangha
- Event: The Buddha’s Four Noble Truths: A Blueprint for Dancing with Life
- Event: The Paradox of Desire
- Event: Twelve Insights from the Four Noble Truths - Daylong
- Event: Understanding the Paramis; The Qualities of Mind that Bring Freedom to your Life
- Event: Vipassana 101
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- Marin Sangha with Guest Teacher, Ed Brown
- Marin Sangha with Guest Teacher, Lisa Dale Miller
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- Marin Sangha with Guest Teacher, Thanissara
- Marin Sangha with Guest Teacher, Wendy Palmer
- Marin Sangha with Guest Teacher, Will Kabat Zinn
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- Meditation: The Felt Sense of the Body
- Talk: Vippassana 101
- The Felt Sense of Stillness
- Talk: Reflections on the First Foundation of Mindfulness
- The Four Noble Truths As Practice
- Talk: Understanding First and Second Noble Truths As Practice of Insight, Part 1
- Talk: Dharma Wisdom
- Article: Striking a Balance between Effort and Ease in Yoga & Life
- Meditation: Body Scan Meditation
- Article: Being in Your Body
- Article: Establishing a Daily Home Practice
- Article: Sharing the Mat: The Synergy of Yoga & Buddhism
- Article: Start With Your Body
- Article: The Body As Spiritual Path
- Article: The Perfect Yoga Pose
- Article: Will Yoga & Meditation Really Change My Life?
- Meditation: Breath Meditation
- Talk: The Body As a Gateway to Liberation
- Talk: Mindfullness of the Body
- Talk: How Do I Decide
- Meditation: Body Meditation
- Talk: Starting Over
- Talk: Equanimity: Vital for Freeing the Heart
- Talk: Internal External Forgiveness
- Article: The Heart's Intention
- Article: Lost in Doubt?
- Article: Living with Disappointment
- Article: Freedom from Fear
- Meditation: Delete Me
- Article: Opening to Love
- Article: Ambivalence, Ambiguity, and Ambition
- Article: Awakening in the Body
- Article: Balancing Priorities
- Article: Beyond Happiness
- Article: Cultivating Clear Comprehension
- Article: Decision Time
- Article: Do the Right Thing
- Article: Forgiving the Unforgivable
- Article: Healing Your Mother (or Father) Wound
- Article: How to Meditate
- Article: Making Major Life Changes
- Article: Practicing Nonviolence Toward Self
- Article: Realizing Your True Nature
- Article: Reconcilable Differences
- Article: Still Mind, Moving Body
- Talk: Basic Breath Meditation
- Article: Forgiveness Practice
- Article: Our Addiction to Preferences
- Article: The Five Precepts
- Talk: Fatigue
- Talk: Fatigue, Part II
- Talk: Right Intention and Living the Dharma
- Talk: Time and Death; Dealing with Darkness
- Article: Selfless Gratitude
- Article: Starting Over
- Study Guide: Brahma-viharas
- Study Guide: Happiness Here and Now
- Study Guide: Integrating Right Intention in Your Life
- Study Guide: Mindfully Making Changes
- Study Guide: Mindfulness in Relationships
- Study Guide: Mindfulness of the Body
- Study Guide: The Dharma of Disappointment
- Study Guide: The Fruits of Forgiveness
- Study Guide: The Need for Renunciation
- Study Guide: The Rewards of Right Action
- Talk: Preference, Perception and Practice
- Talk: Compassion 1
- Talk: Compassion II
- Article: Starting a Mindfulness Meditation Practice
- Article: Surrendering to Suffering
- Article: The Gift of Generosity
- Article: The Pursuit of Happiness
- Article: The Tyranny of Expectations
- Article: The Yoga of Relationship
- Article: Trust Issues
- Trust, Part II
- Article: Two Aspects of Forgiveness Practice
- Article: Understanding Your Sense of Identity
- Article: When the Student is Ready
- Mediations: Sounds and Silence
- Meditation: Bare Attention
- Meditation: Meditation on the Elements
- Meditation: Relaxing into Silence
- Meditation: Sitting in Heart Space
- Meditation: FLV VIDEO TEST
- Talk Misunderstanding Martyrdom
- Talk: 2.21.10 Mastery in Meditation Practice
- Talk: Ambiguity, Part I
- Talk: Ambiguity, Part II
- Talk: Anger: A Pair of Rulers
- Talk: Ambiguity, Part III
- Article: What is Vipassana?
- Talk: Doubt
- Article: Practicing Self-Restraint
- Talk: Fear, Part I
- Meditation: Relaxing Into Awareness
- Talk: Making Changes
- Meditation: Walking Meditation
- Talk: Ambivalence, Part 1
- Talk: The Hindrances As Allies
- Talk: Ambivalence, Part II
- Talk: Authenticity, Part I
- Talk: Authenticity, Part II
- Talk: Authenticity, Part III
- Talk: Authenticity, Part IV
- Talk: Boundaries
- Talk: Can We Change?
- Talk: Disappointment
- Talk: Do the Right Thing
- Talk: Emotional Resilience
- Talk: Endings and Beginnings
- Talk: Expectations, Part I
- Talk: Expectations, Part II
- Talk: Fear and Uncertainty
- Talk: Fear, Part II
- Talk: Forgiveness
- Talk: Forgiving the Unforgivable
- Talk: Generosity: Gateway to Freedom
- Talk: Getting Past Stuck
- Talk: Happiness Is Harder
- Talk: Humility & Authenticity
- Talk: Identity, Part I
- Talk: Identity, Part II
- Talk: Judging, Comparing and Fixing
- Talk: Living with Difficulty
- Talk: Making Friends with Your Darkness
- Talk: Many Faces of Doubt, Part I
- Talk: Many Faces of Doubt, Part II
- Talk: Papanca Mind
- Talk: Patience and Determination
- Talk: Power and the Dharma
- Talk: Preparing for Transition
- Talk: Reconciliation Practice
- Talk: Relaxing into Surrender
- Talk: Renunciation Practice
- Talk: Sangha The Third Jewel
- Talk: Self-Discovery through Poetry
- Talk: Self-Soothing
- Talk: Setting Personal Boundaries
- Talk: Sitting in the Fire of Accountability, Part I
- Talk: Sitting in the Fire of Accountability, Part II
- Talk: Softening into the Moment
- Talk: Starting Over as Meditation Practice
- Talk: Subduing Anger
- Talk: The Distinction between Wisdom and Knowledge
- Talk: The Ghost of Unfinished Business
- Talk: The Many Dimensions of Joy
- Talk: The Pervasiveness of Habitual Striving
- Talk: The Tao of Relationship, Part I
- Talk: The Tao of Relationship, Part II
- Talk: The Tao of Relationship, Part III
- Talk: Three Kinds of Happiness
- Talk: Three Types of Selfing
- Talk: Trust, Part I
- Talk: What Mindfulness Is and Is Not
- Talk: Why Change is Difficult
- Talk: Working with Personal Defeat
- Talk:Developing Intuitive Awareness
- Ask Phillip Moffitt
- Dancing With Life
- A Year of Dancing With Life
- Dancing with Life: Endorsements
- Dancing with Life: Excerpt
- Dancing with Life: Introduction
- Dancing with Life: Reviews & Interviews
- Dancing with Life: Study Dancing with Life
- Dancing with Life: Summation of the Four Noble Truths
- Dancing with Life: Table of Contents
- Dancing with Life: Teach Dancing with Life
- Dancing with Life: Welcome
- Dancing with Life: What Readers Are Saying
- Teaching: Suffering Is Noble
- Teaching: The Three Kinds of Suffering
- Teaching: Week 10: Don’t Know Mind
- Teaching: Week 11: Knowing That You Know
- Teaching: Week 12: Penetrating Dukkha
- Teaching: Week 13: Willingness to “Stand Under” Suffering
- Teaching: Week 14: The Ego’s Fear of Humiliation
- Teaching: Week 15: The Good of Suffering
- Teaching: Week 16: There Is a Cause of Your Suffering
- Teaching: Week 17: Desire without Craving
- Teaching: Week 18: The Three Kinds of Craving
- Teaching: Week 19: Wholesome and Unwholesome Desire
- Teaching: Week 1: The Truth of Suffering
- Teaching: Week 20: Sustaining Wholesome Desires
- Teaching: Week 21: The Difference between Pain and Suffering
- Teaching: Week 22: Attachment to Desire
- Teaching: Week 23: Abandoning Attachment to Desire
- Teaching: Week 24: Why Your Mind Clings
- Teaching: Week 25: How to Abandon Clinging
- Teaching: Week 26: Self-Soothing Practices
- Teaching: Week 27: Starting Over
- Teaching: Week 28: What Makes Life Worthwhile
- Teaching: Week 29: The Need for Renunciation
- Teaching: Week 2: Suffering Is Impermanent
- Teaching: Week 30: The Paradox of Desire
- Teaching: Week 31: Cessation—The End of Suffering
- Teaching: Week 32: The Gradual Path to Cessation
- Teaching: Week 33: Practicing Cessation
- Teaching: Week 34: The Buddha’s Fire Sermon
- Teaching: Week 35: Knowing Cessation
- Teaching: Week 36: Three Stages of Realization
- Teaching: Week 37: Transforming the Ego
- Teaching: Week 38: Transcending the Ego
- Teaching: Week 3: Subjective vs. Objective Suffering
- Teaching: Week 40: The Way to End Your Suffering
- Teaching: Week 41: The Noble Eightfold Path
- Teaching: Week 42: Panna or Wisdom Practices
- Teaching: Week 43: Sila or Virtue Practices
- Teaching: Week 45: The Courage to Be Happy
- Teaching: Week 47: Condition Dependent Happiness
- Teaching: Week 48: Mind State Dependent Happiness
- Teaching: Week 49: Absolute Happiness
- Teaching: Week 50: Allow Happiness to Be Your Teacher
- Teaching: Week 51: Surrendering Your Innocence
- Teaching: Week 52: Exploring Your Own Inner Stillness
- Teaching: Week 6: Feeling "The Ouch" of Suffering
- Teaching: Week 7: It’s Not Easy to Feel Suffering
- Teaching: Week 8: Opening to Your Own Dukkha
- Teaching: Week 9: Opening to the Dukkha of Others
- Week 39: Transparency
- Week 44: Samadhi or Concentration Practices
- Week 46: Three Kinds of Happiness
- Resources
- Bio: Meg Agnew
- Phillip Moffitt interview with Ajahn Sumedho
- Resources: Abbreviated Glossary of Buddhist Terms
- Resources: Buddhist Publications
- Resources: Buddhist Retreat Centers
- Resources: Buddhist Web Sites and Links of Interest
- Resources: Recommended Reading: Experienced Meditators
- Resources: Recommended Reading: New Meditators
- Resources: Recommended Reading: Yoga & Buddhism
Goals help you make your place in the world and be an effective person. But being grounded in intention is what provides integrity and unity in your life.”
~ Phillip Moffitt
Phillip Moffitt
PRESIDENT OF THE
LIFE BALANCE INSTITUTE
Entrepreneur and former
Esquire magazine editor-in-chief and C.E.O., Phillip Moffitt, founded the Life Balance Institute in order to provide training and resources for individuals and executives in how to live a more satisfying, values-based life. More »