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Apr 2023
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The Buddha's Eight Part Recipe for Happi...

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This episode kicks off our series on the Eightfold Path which will continue on Wednesdays for the next two weeks with Eugene Cash and Joseph Goldstein.


DaRa Williams is a trainer, meditation teacher and psychotherapist and has been a meditator for the past 25 years. She is a practitioner of both Vipassana and Ascension meditation and is a graduate of the Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program and is an IMS Emeritus Guiding Teacher. 


In this episode we talk about:


  • The first two components of the Eightfold Path: Right View and Right Thinking
  • How the Eightfold Path has played out in DaRa's life 
  • The notions of Intuition, Clear Seeing, and Openness 
  • And the very tricky skills of renunciation and fostering non-attachment to outcomes


Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/dara-williams-592

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