Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 5: short guided meditation cultivating compassion for oneself and others More info here: https://jill0shepherd-insightmeditation.com/2018-05-six-week-study-course-exploring-anatta/

Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 5: A recap of how the five aggregates combine to form self, and how mindfulness and compassion can help reduce clinging to that self More info here: https://jill0shepherd-insightmeditation.com/2018-05-six-week-study-course-exploring-anatta/

Moving through love, compassion, appreciation, and equanimity for beings in all directions.

When we feel connected and alive our natural response to suffering is a caring heart. Different dimensions of compassion are explored.

This talk explores the relationship between love and nature and how the natural world is a beautiful and profound doorway to love (metta) compassion and joy.

In the opening line of the Dhammapada the Buddha teaches: "We are what we think with our thoughts we make the world." Although we have limited control over what happens to us, we can hold our experience with a wise perspective that makes all the difference. Famed Buddhist writer Christmas Humphreys put it this way: "The one miracle this path has to offer is a change of heart." We can change our relation to experience and make the shift from suffering to clear seeing, wisdom and compassion. In this talk James sings a song he wrote in his 20's entitled "It's All in Your Mind".

Buddhist psychology views clinging as the source of suffering, and one of the great domains of clinging is compulsive overeating. For most of us the causes and conditions for compulsive overeating existed before we were born, during our early childhood, and in our surrounding society. We begin to release shame and self-aversion by realizing we are not alone in this suffering; and eating addiction is not “our fault.” The talk includes an exploration of how, through RAIN, we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to compulsive eating, giving us more choice in our behavior. Ultimately we discover that this deep prison of suffering can become a portal to realizing the freedom our true nature.