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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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2020-08-06 01 talk: an overview of the Fourth Establishment of Mindfulness 36:50
A brief introduction to Mindfulness of Dhammas, focusing on the five hindrances and the seven awakening factors
Auckland Insight Meditation Foundations of Insight
2020-07-30 02 meditation: mindfulness of the mind, including emotions 25:23
Beginning with the body and breath, opening to sounds, then thoughts, then emotions
Auckland Insight Meditation Foundations of Insight
2020-07-30 01 talk: introduction to practising mindfulness of emotions 23:48
Continuing with mindfulness of the mind, a short intro about practicing with emotions
Auckland Insight Meditation Foundations of Insight
2020-07-26 talk: metta and the brahamvihara as a support for resilience 39:09
An overview of how the four brahmavihara - kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity - work together to support resilience; focuses on metta and a way of practice that doesn't use phrases
Auckland Insight Meditation
2020-07-25 07 guided meditation: mudita or appreciative joy 16:36
Beginning by tuning in to well-being in the body, opening to appreciation of what's going well in our own lives, then mudita for what's going well for others
Auckland Insight Meditation Balancing Effort and Enjoyment
2020-07-25 06 talk: Right Effort and Mudita or appreciative joy 24:04
Looking at the four-part definition of Right Effort, and how mudita practice, the cultivation of appreciative joy, can support the development of skilful mental states
Auckland Insight Meditation Balancing Effort and Enjoyment
2020-07-25 05 talk: the role of pleasant experience in formal and informal practice 16:25
Some common unhelpful attitudes to pleasant experiences in meditation and daily life practice, and suggestions for how to develop a more skilful relationship to them
Auckland Insight Meditation Balancing Effort and Enjoyment
2020-07-25 04 meditation: mindfulness of hearing 25:36
Beginning with the body and breath, then opening up to the experience of hearing, receiving sounds and and any moments of silence
Auckland Insight Meditation Balancing Effort and Enjoyment
2020-07-25 03 instructions: finding balance as a process of listening 16:50
Finding balanced effort as a process of attunement, with an overview of the practice of mindfulness of hearing as a way to train in receptive listening
Auckland Insight Meditation Balancing Effort and Enjoyment
2020-07-25 02 talk: Right Effort and the Middle Way 25:54
An introduction of the workshop theme, balancing effort and enjoyment, with an overview of someone common ways that effort becomes unbalanced
Auckland Insight Meditation Balancing Effort and Enjoyment

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