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Retreat Dharma Talks

Cultivation and Insight

An eight-day online retreat with Gil Fronsdal and Jill Shepherd for Auckland Insight

2022-02-12 (9 days) Auckland Insight Meditation

  
2022-02-15 16 instructions: mindfulness of the body 9:39
Gil Fronsdal
Exploring how body sensations can be an early warning system that reactivity is taking over; and the benefits of bringing mind and body into harmony with each other
2022-02-15 17 talk: Confidence 45:53
Gil Fronsdal
Exploring the third of the three conditions that support insight: confidence, or dharma confidence
2022-02-15 18 reflection and standing meditation 43:19
Jill Shepherd
Reflecting on the day's themes and practices of mindfulness of the body and dharma confidence, exploring these through the practice of standing meditation
2022-02-16 19 instructions: mindfulness of emotions 16:33
Gil Fronsdal
Bringing awareness to emotions and using the acronym RAFT to stay present with the experiences in the body and the mind
2022-02-16 20 meditation: mindfulness of emotions 32:04
Gil Fronsdal
Practising recognising, allowing, feeling and teasing apart emotions (RAFT)
2022-02-16 21 instructions p2: developing respect for emotions 8:08
Gil Fronsdal
Having respect for our emotions helps us be upright in the middle of it all, and that still, quiet attention gathers what's good in us
2022-02-16 22 talk: Inconstancy 48:30
Gil Fronsdal
Exploring insight into anicca or inconstancy
2022-02-16 23 instructions: different modes of mindfulness 8:39
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the quality of mindfulness itself, and the benefits of using different modes of mindfulness to keep the mind in balance
2022-02-16 24 meditation: mindfulness of hearing 36:32
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by steadying awareness on the breath, then physical sensations, then opening to sounds
2022-02-17 25 instructions and meditation: mindfulness of thinking 60:20
Gil Fronsdal
Understanding how we're relating to our thinking, and learning how to not be bothered by our thoughts
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