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Jean Esther's Dharma Talks
Jean Esther
Jean Esther, MSW has been practicing meditation since 1975 and teaching in the dharma since the early 90’s. She is one of the Guiding Teachers at True North Insight in Canada and teaches locally in the Northeastern US. Trained in Jungian transpersonal psychology and Somatic Experiencing she has been a practicing psychotherapist in Western MA since 1981 with a specialization in the healing of trauma. Her passion is attuning to and supporting the liberating intersection of body, mind and heart and helping others of all ages do the same.
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2024-06-28 How do we know we're alive? 49:32
An unexpected love story. When love and wisdom come together from our practice we meet our lives with the courage to live our fullest selves. Knowing how deeply our lives intertwine.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Teen Retreat
2024-05-05 Closing talk 21:07
True North Insight Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2024-05-04 The power of equanimity in relating to our worldly life 5:16
This talk points to both the fruit of equanimity as well as its cultivation in meeting the challenges of being human
True North Insight Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2024-05-04 Guided compassion practice - with self and other 53:14
True North Insight Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2024-05-04 Morning Instructions: Identifying feeling tones as doorways of release 17:28
Identifying pleasant/unpleasant/neutral vedanā and their relationship to the five hindrances.
True North Insight Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2024-05-03 The five hindrances: doorways to waking up 48:58
Identifying the five hindrances as the object of our meditation can loosen the grip of self identification with these often unpleasant mental states.
True North Insight Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2024-05-03 Guided loving kindness practice for self and/or benefactor 24:58
True North Insight Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2024-05-03 Eating Meditation 4:02
First day of retreat - brief eating meditation instructions
True North Insight Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2024-04-16 Perfectionism is an impediment to awakening 49:09
What derails us on and off to cushion? This talk is an invitation to investigation perfectionism, the vulnerability that lies beneath it and the power of practicing with the 10 paramis in daily life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness/Metta Retreat as Ceremony
2024-04-15 Loving kindness for the neutral person 45:59
Understanding that we are all interconnected - offering loving kindness for a neutral person through the sense of a separate self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness/Metta Retreat as Ceremony

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