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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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2024-11-14 talk: The role of pleasure and enjoyment on the path to freedom 27:36
Looking at the common tendency to turn regular practice into a duty or chore, and the importance of appreciating the benefits that come from meditation using the criteria of the ten pāramī ie generosity, ethical integrity, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve and determination, mettā and equanimity
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2024-11-07 short talk: Exploring the relationship between dharma and politics 15:05
How might we respond to the results of the 2024 US election?
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2024-10-31 Short talk: Halloween reflections 16:27
What haunts you, and what helps you face fear?
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2024-08-29 meditation: Mettā for a good friend 26:50
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2024-08-22 meditation: Mindfulness of mind 16:49
Bringing mindfulness to thoughts and emotions (Note: the first five minutes of the meditation with instructions for settling into the body sitting and breathing, were not recorded)
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2024-08-22 talk: Introduction to Mindfulness of mind 18:47
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2024-08-15 short talk: Exploring the wheel model of experience 10:26
Based on some teaching by Gil Fronsdal, looking at the role of feeling-tone in driving reactivity, when there's no mindfulness
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2024-08-15 meditation: Mindfulness of feeling-tone 25:09
Bringing mindfulness to pleasant, neutral then unpleasant feeling-tones in relation to seeing, hearing, and physical sensations
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2024-08-15 short instructions: Exploring feeling tone 7:50
An introduction to practising with the Second Establishment of Mindfulness, mindfulness of feeling-tone or vedanā
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2024-08-08 short talk: the benefits of practising Mindfulness of the Body 12:33
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