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Pat Coffey's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
Pat Coffey, MEd, began his meditation practice over 30 years ago and has taught meditation since 1996. He studied with numerous Asian and Western teachers in the Theravada, Tibetan and Zen traditions. Pat is the founder of IMCC and the co-founder of the Blue Ridge Prison Project. Pat was selected and trained as a meditation teacher in the joint teacher training program of The Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center under the tutelage of Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Down-to-earth real world practical dharma is the hallmark of his teaching. The father of two children, owner of several businesses and the holder of several patents, he draws on his varied and rich life experience to articulate the dharma.
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Pat Coffey: Uppekha | Guided Meditation
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Mudita (Appreciative Joy) | Dharma Talk
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Karuna | Guided Meditation
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Metta (Loving Friendliness) | Dharma Talk
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Talk on Upekkha/Equanimity
(Sevenoaks Pathwork Center)
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Pat Coffey: Mudita/Empathetic Joy Practice
(Sevenoaks Pathwork Center)
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Pat Coffey: Talk on Karuna/Compassion
(Sevenoaks Pathwork Center)
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Pat Coffey: Metta/Loving-kindness Practice
(Sevenoaks Pathwork Center)
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Pat Coffey: Equanimity
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Bridging Separation
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Bridging separation is the activity necessary for the survival of our species and the biosphere. Buddhism encourages us to find ways to bridge our internal fragmentation AND bridge all external divides. How can we resist vigorously those we deem involved in causing harm yet not put them out of our hearts? How can we utilize the skills of our practice to bridge the separation we feel with others not like us.
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Pat Coffey: Meditation: Breathing through the Heart
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Challenging Energies
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Supporting energies bequeathed from our ancestors both insure our survival and challenge all us contemplatives to attend and befriend.
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Pat Coffey: Morning Instruction and Walking Meditation
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: First Morning Instruction and Meditation
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Impermanence
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: AM Instruction and QA
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: AM Meditation and Instruction
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Meditation: Equanimity
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: The Factors of Enlightenment
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Meditation: Metta - Heart Practice
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Life's Challenging Energies
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) As our practice matures we are encouraged to cultivate healthier more compassionate relationships with those energies of life that obscure our natural perfected heart. In this talk we explore the origins of these energies and a perspective on them that creates harmony both inside and out.
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Pat Coffey: Bodhicitta: The Awakened Heart Mind
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The power of Bodhicitta, we cultivated is a powerful antidote to greed, ill will and delusion
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Pat Coffey: Basic meditation instructions for the first day of retreat
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Basic meditation instructions that includes special attention to relaxation and sacred "pause" of awakening.
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Pat Coffey: Guided Loving Kindness Meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Extending loving kindness to self
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Pat Coffey: Meditation Instructions - Day Three
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Includes emphasis on emotions
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Pat Coffey: Challenging Energies Of Life and Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cultivating a kindly accepting relationship with the challenging energies of life - is essential to happiness and freedom. In this talk we explore those energies and offer practical methods of working with them.
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Pat Coffey: Basic Meditation Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Includes special attention to relaxation and the "sacred" pause of awakening
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Pat Coffey: Challenging Energies
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Equanimity
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Guided Heart Metta Meditation
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Challenging the Energies: Our Organism Loving Itself
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Survival warrants the arising of certain energies. They are not our enemies. If we treat them as such we are continuing the internal warfare and struggle. By seeing energies like lust, fear, hatred, worry, sleepiness and doubt as our organism loving itself we elicit self compassion and understanding....the perfect healing energies and perspective to then move forward into greater ease and connection with all life.
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Pat Coffey: Morning Instruction - Question and Response
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Morning Guided Meditation
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Guided Metta Meditation
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Morning Instructions - Question and Response
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Befriending Challenging Energies - Our Limbic Lovers
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Morning Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Pat Coffey: Working With Challenging Energies: A Fresh Perspective
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The hindrances are not enemies to be pushed aside. Their deepest intention is to protect us...albeit in misguided ways. Attending and befriending these energies is the pathway to stronger concentration and internal healing.
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Pat Coffey: Morning Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) These instructions accentuate relaxation and self compassion creating a sense of ease for the concentration practices
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Pat Coffey: The Great Divide
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Healing separation is the heart of practice...internal and external.
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Pat Coffey: The Joy and Preciousness of Change
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Change is the fundamental law of nature. How one learns to skillfully be with unwanted change is the difference between a life of peace and a life of anguish. Mindfulness practice addresses this directly.
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Pat Coffey: Meditation: Guided Metta Practice
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Morning Instruction, Meditation and Question/Response
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Guided Meditation - Flower Metta
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Morning Meditation and Instructions
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: The Nature of Mind
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Lovingkindness - Instruction and Meditation
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
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Pat Coffey: Challenging Energies: How To Attend and Befriend
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In practice we are often beset by challenging energies. Cultivating a skillful relationship to them is key to awakening.
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Pat Coffey: Samadhi: Gateway to Freedom
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The cultivation of samadhi is more than just focusing the mind. The tranquility of deep samadhi is the foundation for insight and awakening
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Pat Coffey: Sitting and Walking Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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Pat Coffey, MEd, began his meditation practice over 30 years ago and has taught meditation since 1996. He studied with numerous Asian and Western teachers in the Theravada, Tibetan and Zen traditions. Pat is the founder of IMCC and the co-founder of the Blue Ridge Prison Project. Pat was selected and trained as a meditation teacher in the joint teacher training program of The Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center under the tutelage of Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Down-to-earth real world practical dharma is the hallmark of his teaching. The father of two children, owner of several businesses and the holder of several patents, he draws on his varied and rich life experience to articulate the dharma.
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