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.
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2017-05-08
Q&A on taking the practice home.
2015-08-11
A Bubble In The Stream
2009-10-05
Are You Satisfied with your Practice?
2017-05-06
Awareness Of Please And Pain
2018-12-16
Beginning Instructions and Guided Meditation
2024-08-08
Beginning lovingkindness practice
2016-05-02
Building a foundation for mindfulness
2018-04-29
Causes And Conditions
2018-12-20
Closing Meditation And Guidance
2015-12-19
Cultivating A Wise Heart
2009-07-12
Equanimity in Family Life
2014-08-04
Evening Reflections On The Day's Practice
2010-07-02
Everything and Nothing: Mindfulness in Family Life
2012-08-04
Expectations
2009-08-11
Expectations and Explorations
2024-08-12
Following the predominant object
2014-08-08
Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation
2015-08-13
Guided Loving Kindness Meditation
2018-08-09
Guided Loving Kindness Meditation
2017-05-04
Guided Loving Kindness Practice
2023-08-11
Guided loving-kindness meditation
2012-08-06
Guided Metta
2012-08-10
Guided Metta
2013-08-05
Guided Metta and Instructions
2016-05-06
Guided metta lovingkindness
2014-08-03
Guided Metta Meditation
2018-08-05
Guided Metta Meditation
2025-08-07
Guided Metta Meditation
2014-08-05
Guided Metta Meditation with Equanimity Practice
2010-08-08
Guided Metta with Q&A
2024-10-21
Guided Reflection: Factors of Awakening
2024-10-30
Guided Reflection: Great Blessings
2024-10-14
Guided Reflection: No Body, No Self
2024-10-05
Guided Reflection: Opening to Hindrances
2024-10-07
Guided Reflection: Opening to Impermanence
2024-10-09
Guided Reflection: Sense of Self
2019-12-08
Helpful Attitudes For Practice
2023-06-20
Impermanence
2018-05-02
Insight and Equanimity
2014-08-07
Insight: The Three Characteristics
2025-07-02
Instructions Day 5
2010-08-14
Instructions Day 8
2025-08-08
Instructions for Mindfulness of Thinking
2018-12-18
Introduction To Insight
2023-08-06
Introduction to loving kindness meditation
2013-09-06
Introduction To The Brahma Viharas
2024-08-07
Introduction to the Mahasi method
2009-10-02
Investigating Right View
2023-08-09
Letting go of everything
2008-07-25
Love And Desire In Family Life
2022-08-07
Lovingkindness Meditation
2012-08-08
Metta Instructions - Neutral Person
2017-05-11
Mindful Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-08-06
Mindfulness - Mahasi Style
2024-06-30
Mindfulness and Perception
2008-08-15
Morning Instructions
2009-08-12
Morning Instructions
2013-09-06
Morning Instructions
2014-08-05
Morning Instructions
2014-08-08
Morning Instructions
2016-08-06
Morning instructions
2017-03-11
Morning instructions
2017-08-07
Morning Instructions
2022-06-17
Morning Instructions
2023-08-07
Morning Instructions
2023-08-11
morning Instructions
2024-08-09
Morning Instructions – thinking
2016-08-12
Morning instructions and Q/A
2013-08-04
Morning Instructions and Q&A
2016-05-03
Morning instructions and Q&A
2016-08-09
Morning instructions and Q&A
2012-08-08
Morning Instructions Day #5
2017-08-07
Morning Q&A
2017-08-11
Morning Q&A
2024-10-16
Morning Reflection: What are we offering?
2016-07-12
Not stopping and not struggling.
2014-08-04
Opening The door To Insight
2025-07-03
Opening to Insight
2016-03-04
Overcoming obstacles
2025-08-11
Overview of Mahasi Instructions
2024-10-15
Paramis in Practice: Honesty and Resolve
2024-10-22
Paramis in Practice: Patience
2024-10-29
Paramis in Practice: Renunciation
2024-10-23
Practicing Awareness of Intention
2022-07-05
Purification of view – part one
2022-07-15
Purification of view – part three
2022-07-08
Purification of view – part two
2017-08-09
Q&A Metta Practice
2010-08-09
Recipe For Insight: The 7 Factors Of Enlightenment
2024-10-08
Relating to Meditation Skillfully
2012-08-07
Relative And Absolute
2024-08-10
Relative and absolute
2019-05-08
Skillful Effort
2017-05-05
Suffering and Its Causes
2013-08-10
Taking The Practice Home
2014-08-09
Taking the Practice Home
2015-08-15
Taking The Practice Home
2017-08-12
Taking The Practice Home Q&A
2009-08-15
The 8-Fold Path in Daily Life.
2019-07-23
The Aggregate of Sankhara: Volitional Formations
2019-07-16
The Aggregate of Sañña: Perception
2019-07-09
The Aggregate of Vedana: Pleasure and Pain
2019-07-30
The Aggregate of Viññana: Consciousness
2016-08-11
The factors of awakening
2009-08-08
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
2006-10-06
The Heartwood Of Spiritual Life
2025-02-04
The Hindrances and Concentration
2025-02-24
The Hindrances and Insight
2025-02-11
The Hindrances and Mindfulness
2016-07-26
The practice of truthfulness
2013-08-07
The Process Of Insight
2010-08-13
The Process Of Insight: Seeing Nama-Rupa
2013-08-03
The Role Of Right View On Retreat
2025-08-10
The Seven Factors of Awakening
2008-08-11
The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2017-08-10
The Simile of the Heartwood.
2022-08-10
The three foundations of insight
2018-08-06
The Two Darts
2008-08-14
The Two Truths
2016-05-05
The two truths
2017-05-14
The Two Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-10-07
The Two Truths: Relative and Absolute
2016-07-19
The wisdom of disenchantment
2024-07-04
Three Functions of Insight
2016-07-05
Trusting our experience
2016-08-08
Trusting our experience
2012-08-11
Walking The Eight Fold Path In Lay Life
2018-08-10
Walking The Eightfold Path
2022-07-22
What is and is not the path – part one
2015-08-09
What Makes A Meditation?
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2006-09-15
Metta & Vipassana Intensive
2008-07-22
Family Retreat
2008-08-11
Insight and the Art of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat
2009-07-11
Family Retreat
2009-08-07
Insight and the Art of Equanimity
2009-10-02
Wisdom
2010-07-01
Family Retreat
2010-08-06
Insight and the Art of Equanimity
2012-08-03
Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-08-02
Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-09-04
Cultivating a Wise Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-08-01
Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-08-07
Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-12-15
Cultivating a Wise Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-03-02
Living the Buddha's Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-04-30
The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat
2016-07-01
July 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-08-05
Attitude and Awareness, Insight and Integration
2017-03-09
Cultivating a Wise Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-05-02
The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat
2017-05-10
Awareness, Insight and Liberation
2017-08-04
Awareness, Insight and Liberation
2018-04-27
Natural Wisdom and Compassion: Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-08-03
The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat
2018-12-15
Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-05-05
The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat
2019-07-01
July 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2019-12-06
Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-06-14
Living the Buddha's Teachings
2022-07-01
July 2022
2022-08-05
Insight (Vipassana) Meditation Leading to Liberation
2023-06-17
TCVC June 2023
2023-08-04
The Sure Heart's Release
2024-06-28
Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation
2024-08-06
Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method
2024-10-01
October 2024
2025-02-01
February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2025-06-27
Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation with Kamala Masters, Steve Armstrong and De…
2025-08-04
The Sure Heart's Release: Insight and Metta Retreat – 25MKM
