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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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2025-02-23 05 meditation: Mindfulness of the body and physical sensations 30:33
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties
2025-02-22 04 talk: Taking the Refuges and Precepts 37:13
Introducing the five indriya, focusing on the first one, confidence or trust, and how taking refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and committing to the five precepts helps strengthen inner confidence
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties
2025-02-22 03 meditation: Arriving more fully here 36:29
Settling in to the body sitting, breathing, balancing the overall energy through the rhythm of breathing in and out Closing with short instructions for maintaining continuity of mindfulness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties
2025-02-13 talk: Foundations of the Path 1 - Generosity / dāna 30:49
Beginning the year by refreshing the foundations of our practice, starting with a brief overview of what insight meditation is, then exploring how generosity supports this path to freedom all along the way
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2024-12-05 talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path part 3 27:12
Looking at two common reactions to pleasant sense-based experiences: clinging or anxiety; and the Buddha's crucial distinction between sense-based pleasures, which tend to reinforce clinging, and the mental pleasure that comes from cultivating skilful mind-states
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024
2024-11-21 talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path P2 18:55
Looking at the conditioning that can get in the way of opening to pleasant experiences, using the framework of the three core personality types: greed, aversive and delusion
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024
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
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024
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?
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024
2024-10-31 Short talk: Halloween reflections 16:27
What haunts you, and what helps you face fear?
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024
2024-08-29 meditation: Mettā for a good friend 26:50
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

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