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Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

This nine-day insight meditation retreat offers an opportunity to strengthen both the wisdom and the compassion wings of awakening. We will explore a variety of different practices taken from the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, alongside the four brahma-vihara heart practices of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

2018-08-03 (10 days) Te Moata Retreat Center

  
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2018-08-05 11 instructions: mindfulness of the body as a collection of anatomical parts 8:35
Jill Shepherd
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Instructions for exploring the body in terms of its anatomical parts
2018-08-05 12 guided meditation: mindfulness of the body in terms of its anatomical parts 29:03
Jill Shepherd
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Guided meditation beginning with a reading from the Satipatthana Sutta on the anatomical parts of the body, followed by reciting of the 32 parts then body scans knowing the body in terms of its skin, flesh, and bones
2018-08-05 13 talk: sukha, happiness 42:00
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring the role of sukha, happiness, in the Buddha's teachings, and how the silence, solitude, simplicity, slowing down and stillness of being on retreat support the development of that happiness
2018-08-06 14 instructions: contemplating the body in terms of four elements or qualities 11:45
Jill Shepherd
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An introduction to mindfulness of the body in terms of the four qualities of earth, water, fire, and air or wind, as a way of gaining insight into the body's impermanence and interconnectedness
2018-08-06 15 guided meditation: contemplating the body in terms of four elements or qualities 14:25
Jill Shepherd
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A short guided meditation exploring the qualities of earth, water, fire and air or wind within the body, and also externally
2018-08-06 16 instructions: feeling tone or vedana 27:22
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring vedana or feeling-tone as the Second Establishment of Mindfulness
2018-08-06 17 guided dyad meditation: feeling-tone 17:16
Jill Shepherd
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Guided dyad (pairs) meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone
2018-08-07 19 instructions: mindfulness of the mind 28:46
Jill Shepherd
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Ways to practice mindfulness of thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-states
2018-08-07 20 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 26:08
Jill Shepherd
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Beginning with mindfulness of breathing, then including physical sensations, sounds, thoughts and emotions, knowing their impermanent nature, then opening up to choiceless awareness
2018-08-07 23 talk: the hindrance of aversion and the brahmavihara practices as antidotes 53:43
Jill Shepherd
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Ways of working with the hindrance of ill will or aversion, including an overview of the four brahmavihara practices of kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity as antidotes to ill will
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