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Jill Shepherd's Dharma Talks
Jill Shepherd
Wisdom and compassion are two themes that inform my current exploration of the dharma, and I aspire to integrate these as fully as I can in both formal practice and daily life.
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2020-02-15 Overview of the Four Brahmavihara qualities 44:21
Exploring how kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity work together to heal afflicted mind-states
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart: Lovingkindness Retreat
2020-02-15 Instructions and guided meditation practicing mindfulness of breathing 32:35
Settling into retreat by beginning with mindfulness of breathing, to steady the awareness before we move into Metta practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart: Lovingkindness Retreat
2020-01-30 talk: taking refuges and precepts 31:56
Some reflections on taking the three refuges and five ethical precepts, as a way of aligning with our deeper intentions for the New Year
Auckland Insight Meditation
2020-01-18 15 talk: from dukkha to sukha 46:15
Exploring the overall arc of our practice as a movement from dukkha (suffering) to ease and happiness (sukha), and how mudita or appreciative joy can support this development
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings
2020-01-18 14 instructions: mindfulness of feeling-tone 12:58
A brief introduction to the Second Establishment of Mindfulness, mindfulness of feeling-tone or vedana: recognising pleasant, unpleasant or neutral experiences
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings
2020-01-18 13 meditation: mindfulness of mind 27:06
Steadying awareness on the breath and physical sensations, then opening to include sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings
2020-01-18 12 instructions: mindfulness of mind 9:37
A short introduction to exploring mindfulness of the mind, including thoughts, emotions, moods, and mind-states
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings
2020-01-17 11 talk: befriending the mind 46:39
Some ways of developing a wiser relationship to our mental activity: thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-states
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings
2020-01-17 10 guided meditation: metta for the benefactor 21:13
A short guided meditation offering metta to the benefactor, using a combination of radiating energy and reciting phrases methods
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings
2020-01-17 09 instructions: metta 19:01
A brief introduction to metta or kindness as the first of the four brahmavihara practices
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

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