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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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2018-05-06
00 short guided meditation: mindfulness of body and breathing
2022-01-15
01 instructions: developing mindfulness and steadiness of mind
2025-10-12
01 instructions: Mindfulness of the Body
2022-02-12
01 meditation: arriving and settling in
2021-02-27
01 meditation: arriving together online
2021-05-30
01 meditation: cultivating mudita as a foundation for the day's practice
2026-08-02
01 meditation: Establishing mindfulness of the body, breathing
2026-01-19
01 meditation: Finding ease in the body, breathing
2020-09-03
01 meditation: impermanence
2020-07-25
01 meditation: intro, mindfulness of breathing
2024-03-31
01 meditation: Settling in, arriving, introduction of Jill
2023-08-12
01 Opening reflections and guided meditation: Establishing awareness of citta
2023-08-19
01 opening talks and guided meditation
2019-06-08
01 short guided meditation: mindfulness of body and breathing
2023-06-25
01 short opening talk and guided meditation establishing the theme of exploring…
2018-05-06
01 short talk: context of the three universal characteristics, anicca, dukkha, …
2020-07-02
01 talk intro to insight meditation
2020-07-16
01 talk mindfulness of hearing
2024-07-20
01 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra heart qualities
2026-01-24
01 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra heart qualities and how they work…
2020-08-06
01 talk: an overview of the Fourth Establishment of Mindfulness
2020-08-10
01 talk: Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path
2020-10-12
01 talk: introduction to mindfulness meditation for beginners
2020-07-30
01 talk: introduction to practising mindfulness of emotions
2021-02-18
01 talk: Living a life of mutual benefit - introduction to the Noble Eightfold …
2020-07-09
01 talk: mindfulness of body
2020-07-23
01 talk: Mindfulness of Mind
2023-02-02
01 talk: overview of the ten pāramī
2018-08-03
01 talk: retreat opening
2021-12-30
01 talk: retreat opening, dana and sila
2019-06-22
01 talk: Transforming Fear into Fearlessness intro
2024-01-13
01 talk: welcome and introduction to insight meditation
2022-05-22
01 talk: What is Vesak?
2023-02-11
01 talks: Retreat Opening and Orientation
2020-07-02
02 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2020-07-09
02 guided meditaton: mindfulness of the breath then physical sensations
2026-08-02
02 instructions and meditation: Mindfulness of breathing 2
2019-06-08
02 instructions: befriending the mind
2026-06-04
02 instructions: Mindfulness
2024-01-13
02 instructions: mindfulness of the body
2022-02-12
02 instructions: orientation to the retreat
2019-06-22
02 instructions: written exercises exploring fear
2023-02-12
02 meditation: Arriving, settling in
2020-08-10
02 meditation: contemplating the Four Noble Truths in direct experience
2022-05-22
02 meditation: cultivating gratitude
2026-01-24
02 meditation: Mettā for a benefactor, using reciting phrases method
2024-07-20
02 meditation: mettā for benefactor
2021-10-24
02 meditation: mettā for the benefactor or easy being
2018-08-03
02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2020-10-12
02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2021-12-30
02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2022-01-15
02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2020-07-16
02 meditation: mindfulness of sounds
2025-10-12
02 meditation: Mindfulness of the body and breathing
2020-07-30
02 meditation: mindfulness of the mind, including emotions
2020-07-23
02 meditation: mindfulness of thoughts
2020-08-06
02 meditation: noticing the presence or absence of the awakening factors
2018-05-06
02 short talk: anatta or not-self
2022-06-05
02 talk: inner and outer supports for being on retreat
2020-09-03
02 talk: insight into impermanence
2026-01-19
02 talk: Inspiration for the New Year
2021-02-27
02 talk: introduction and orientation to the online retreat form
2020-07-25
02 talk: Right Effort and the Middle Way
2021-05-30
02 talk: short introduction to celebrating Vesak
2021-03-04
02 Talk: Wise View and Freedom
2019-06-08
03 brief instructions: calming the body, stilling the mind
2020-07-09
03 guided meditation: standing then walking
2020-07-25
03 instructions: finding balance as a process of listening
2018-08-04
03 instructions: introduction of mindfulness and the practice of mindfulness of…
2021-12-31
03 instructions: mindfulness of breathing
2025-10-12
03 instructions: mindfulness of breathing
2022-06-06
03 instructions: mindfulness of breathing to strengthen sati and samādhi
2022-01-15
03 instructions: mindfulness of the body
2020-01-16
03 instructions: sati and samadhi
2025-02-22
03 meditation: Arriving more fully here
2026-06-04
03 meditation: Body scan inviting ease
2019-06-29
03 meditation: body sitting, breathing
2024-03-31
03 meditation: Exploring our relationship to unpleasantness or unsatisfactorine…
2024-01-13
03 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2022-02-12
03 meditation: orienting to kindness and ease
2026-01-20
03 meditation: Settling into ease
2018-05-13
03 short guided meditation: mindfulness of the body and physical sensations
2020-10-19
03 short talk: mindfulness of the body
2026-01-24
03 talk: A brief overview of the energetic qualities of the four brahmavihāra
2021-02-27
03 talk: an overview of the four brahmavihara
2024-07-20
03 talk: Exploring mettā as rest
2021-05-30
03 talk: Heavenly Messengers
2026-08-02
03 talk: Hindrances of Sense Desire and Aversion
2020-09-10
03 talk: impermanence and dukkha
2022-05-22
03 talk: introduction to the life of the Buddha
2019-08-24
03 talk: sila or ethical conduct as an aspect of generosity
2021-03-25
03 talk: Wise Intention and the bliss of renunciation
2019-06-08
04 guided meditation: mindfulness of the body, emphasising ease
2022-08-27
04 instructions: Dana, Sila and Wise Effort
2024-01-13
04 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness itself
2023-08-21
04 instructions: Mindfulness of the body and mindfulness of breathing
2020-01-16
04 meditation: body scan and mindfulness of breathing
2023-08-12
04 meditation: continuing attuning to the quality of the heart-mind
2020-09-10
04 meditation: dukkha and release
2023-06-25
04 meditation: exploring feeling-tone in relation to sounds
2023-02-12
04 meditation: Finding steadiness in the midst of changing conditions
2026-01-24
04 meditation: Mettā as rest
2018-08-04
04 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2021-12-31
04 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2022-06-06
04 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2025-10-12
04 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2026-08-03
04 meditation: Mindfulness of breathing in long and short
2020-07-25
04 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
2020-10-19
04 meditation: mindfulness of the body
2021-02-27
04 meditation: orienting to kindness
2024-07-20
04 meditation: Resting into mettā / kindness
2021-04-08
04 meditation: simple mindfulness of the body and breathing, with an orientatio…
2024-05-08
04 Morning reflection and meditation: releasing reactivity
2026-06-04
04 short instructions: Continuity of mindfulness
2018-05-13
04 short talk: dukkha and an overview of the five aggregates
2022-05-22
04 talk: awakening mutuality
2021-10-31
04 talk: challenges to mettā practice
2026-01-20
04 talk: Establishing, maintaining and deepening your practice
2024-03-31
04 talk: Exploring the Wisdom wing in relation to the three universal character…
2019-06-29
04 talk: Fear of Dukkha, and Fear IS Dukkha
2022-01-15
04 talk: Right Effort p1 - the Five Hindrances
2025-02-22
04 talk: Taking the Refuges and Precepts
2018-05-13
05 guided dyad (pairs) practice exploring the impermanent and not-self nature o…
2022-01-16
05 instructions: cultivating spaciousness and metta
2022-06-06
05 instructions: feeling tone or vedanā
2019-06-08
05 instructions: mindfulness of feeling-tone or vedana
2020-10-19
05 instructions: relational practice exploring mindfulness of the body
2021-12-31
05 instructions: standing and walking meditation
2019-06-29
05 instructions: the anatomy of anxiety
2026-01-21
05 meditation: Mindfulness of breathing
2024-01-13
05 meditation: mindfulness of hearing and physical sensations
2025-02-23
05 meditation: Mindfulness of the body and physical sensations
2026-08-03
05 meditation: Mindfulness of the body in relation to the four elemental qualit…
2020-10-08
05 meditation: opening to the spaciousness of the body
2025-10-12
05 short instructions: continuity of mindfulness
2018-08-04
05 short instructions: continuity of mindfulness and walking meditation
2024-07-20
05 short talk: Compassion
2026-06-04
05 short talk: First Noble Truth
2026-01-24
05 talk: Compassion
2025-05-10
05 talk: Dukkha in the context of the First Noble Truth and the three character…
2022-05-22
05 talk: facing up to impermanence, endings, loss
2022-08-27
05 talk: Refuge, Mindfulness and Investigation
2021-05-30
05 talk: spiritual friendship
2020-07-25
05 talk: the role of pleasant experience in formal and informal practice
2021-04-08
05 talk: Wise Intention p2 - metta, kindness
2018-08-04
06 guided dyad meditation: mindfulness of body
2019-06-29
06 guided meditation: exploring physical sensations of anxiety and the antidote…
2022-08-28
06 instructions: mindfulness of breathing
2024-01-13
06 instructions: mindfulness of mind
2021-12-31
06 instructions: mindfulness of the body
2019-06-08
06 instructions: perception and volitional formations
2024-07-20
06 meditation: Compassion for a good friend
2026-01-24
06 meditation: Compassion for person experiencing difficulties
2021-02-28
06 meditation: metta for the benefactor
2021-07-04
06 meditation: mindfulness of the body and thinking
2022-01-16
06 meditation: spaciousness and mettā
2018-05-20
06 short talk: three qualities of feeling-tone or vedana, three afflictive ener…
2020-10-08
06 talk: an overview of the five clinging-aggregates
2026-01-21
06 talk: Generosity as a profound dharma practice
2020-10-11
06 talk: Heavenly Messengers 2 - Ageing
2026-06-04
06 talk: Introduction to the Second Noble Truth
2020-10-26
06 talk: mindfulness recap and introduction to mindfulness of hearing
2020-07-25
06 talk: Right Effort and Mudita or appreciative joy
2024-04-13
06 talk: Right View
2026-08-03
06 talk: Supportive conditions
2019-07-06
07 guided meditation: body, breathing, choiceless awareness
2020-07-25
07 guided meditation: mudita or appreciative joy
2019-06-08
07 instructions: brief introduction to metta practice
2025-10-13
07 instructions: cultivating sati and samadhi through mindfulness of breathing
2026-06-05
07 instructions: Mindfulness of breathing to develop sati and samādhi
2020-01-17
07 instructions: mindfulness of the body in terms of the four elemental qualiti…
2022-01-16
07 instructions: mindfulness of the body in terms of the four elemental qualiti…
2021-12-31
07 meditation: body scan inviting release of tension
2023-08-12
07 meditation: further development of mettā and muditā as supports for freeing …
2026-08-04
07 meditation: Mental noting of physical sensations
2022-08-28
07 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2020-10-26
07 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
2024-01-13
07 meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions
2023-06-25
07 meditation: opening to pleasant feeling-tones
2018-05-27
07 short talk: The aggregates of perception, mental formations, and consciousne…
2019-08-25
07 talk: Befriending the Mind
2018-08-04
07 talk: Four Noble Truths
2020-06-06
07 talk: mindfulness and clear comprehension
2026-01-25
07 talk: Muditā
2023-02-13
07 talk: The hindrance of aversion and some strategies for working with it
2025-12-29
07 talk: Wise View and Wise Mindfulness
2021-02-28
07 very short instructions: embodied metta
2020-01-17
08 guided meditation: exploring the four elemental qualities
2019-06-08
08 guided metta meditation
2020-10-26
08 instructions and guided walking meditation
2022-08-28
08 instructions: continuity of mindfulness
2018-08-05
08 instructions: different approaches to mindfulness
2024-01-13
08 instructions: proliferation
2025-10-13
08 meditation: cultivating sati and samadhi through mindfulness of breathing
2021-02-28
08 meditation: embodied metta
2026-06-05
08 meditation: Mindfulness of breathing to develop sati and samādhi
2026-08-04
08 meditation: Mostly silent, with suggestions at the start for choosing which …
2026-01-25
08 meditation: Muditā using radiating energy method
2024-07-21
08 meditation: Settling and stilling the body and mind
2020-10-18
08 meditation: vedana or feeling-tones
2018-06-03
08 short talk: five aggregates, mindfulness and compassion
2023-08-12
08 talk: Q&R and closing reflections
2022-01-16
08 talk: Right Effort p2 - Seven Factors of Awakening
2019-07-06
08 talk: Second Noble Truth, craving for sense pleasures, compassion
2025-06-05
08 talk: Sīla part 6 Mindful listening as a support for Wise Speech
2021-03-11
08 talk: six supports for deepening retreat practice
2021-12-31
08 talk: six supports for the retreat container
2023-08-22
08 talk: the four brahmavihāra as supports for releasing the hindrances
2023-06-25
08: Questions and Reflections
2019-06-09
09 guided meditation: mindfulness of body, sounds, thinking
2018-08-05
09 guided meditation: mindfulness of the breath, physical sensations, and sounds
2024-01-13
09 instructions: cultivating skilful mind-states such as mettā or kindness
2020-01-17
09 instructions: metta
2025-10-13
09 instructions: mindfulness of breathing to develop sati and samadhi p2
2019-07-06
09 instructions: mindfulness of mind
2022-01-01
09 instructions: sati and samādhi p2
2026-06-05
09 meditation: Mettā and compassion as expressions of Wise Intention
2022-01-17
09 meditation: mindfulness of mind and awakening factors
2025-02-24
09 meditation: Opening to sound
2018-06-03
09 short guided meditation: self-compassion
2022-06-07
09 talk: Compassion
2020-10-18
09 talk: exploring vedana or feeling-tone and compassion in relation to illness
2020-11-02
09 talk: mindfulness of mind
2026-01-25
09 talk: Muditā for oneself
2024-07-21
09 talk: Muditā or appreciative joy
2025-06-12
09 talk: Sīla part 7 Fifth Training Precept
2026-08-04
09 talk: The five hindrances part 2 - sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry,…
2022-06-08
10 instructions: mindfulness of mind
2019-07-06
10 guided meditation: dyad practice, mindfulness of mind
2020-01-17
10 guided meditation: metta for the benefactor
2022-01-01
10 guided meditation: sati and samādhi
2023-08-23
10 instructions and meditation exploring feeling-tone or vedanā
2019-06-09
10 instructions: mindfulness of the mind
2021-02-28
10 instructions: radiating metta
2018-08-05
10 instructions: walking rotating through senses
2022-01-17
10 intstructions: mindfulness of mind-states
2020-11-02
10 meditation: beginning mindfulness of mind practice
2026-06-06
10 meditation: Choiceless attention
2024-01-13
10 meditation: cultivating the heart energy of mettā or kindness
2020-10-25
10 meditation: making space for equanimity to arise
2025-10-13
10 meditation: mindfulness of breathing to develop sati and samadhi p2
2026-01-25
10 meditation: Muditā for oneself and a good friend
2024-07-21
10 meditation: Muditā using the radiating energy method of practice
2023-02-14
10 meditation: Orienting to ease and well-being as an aspect of mettā, kindness
2024-05-22
10 Morning reflection and guided meditation: Muditā
2022-02-13
10 reflections: strengthening steadiness and stability
2018-06-10
10 short talk: Anatta and Nibbana
2025-05-11
10 talk: An overview of the four Brahmavihāra heart practices
2020-08-22
10 talk: clinging and release
2025-02-24
10 talk: Five Hindrances
2021-01-24
10 talk: frameworks for understanding - an overview of the Four Noble Truths an…
2025-06-19
10 talk: The brahmavihāra heart practices as support for ethical living
2022-02-13
11 meditation: body, breathing
2019-07-14
11 guided meditation: body and heart-mind
2025-02-25
11 instructions and meditation: Exploring the presence (and absence) of the hin…
2019-06-09
11 instructions: compassion and self-compassion
2018-08-05
11 instructions: mindfulness of the body as a collection of anatomical parts
2022-01-01
11 instructions: mindfulness of the body part 2
2024-07-21
11 instructions: Muditā for oneself
2020-11-02
11 meditation: kindness
2022-06-08
11 meditation: mindfulness of mind
2021-02-28
11 meditation: radiating metta
2026-06-06
11 short talk: An overview of Buddhist ethics
2020-01-17
11 talk: befriending the mind
2026-01-25
11 talk: Equanimity
2019-08-26
11 talk: the five hindrances, with a focus on desire for sense pleasures
2022-01-17
11 talk: three characteristics and contemplation of death
2018-08-05
12 guided meditation: mindfulness of the body in terms of its anatomical parts
2019-06-09
12 guided meditation: self-compassion
2023-08-24
12 instructions and meditation: pleasant unworldly vedanā and mettā
2021-02-28
12 instructions: compassion
2022-01-18
12 instructions: compassion
2020-01-18
12 instructions: mindfulness of mind
2022-06-08
12 instructions: mindfulness of mind-states
2025-10-14
12 instructions: mindfulness of the body in terms of its elemental qualities
2023-02-14
12 instructions: Mindfulness of thinking
2024-07-21
12 meditation: appreciating one's own strengths
2026-01-25
12 meditation: Equanimity
2026-06-07
12 meditation: Opening to mudita gladness and upekkha equanimity
2019-07-14
12 talk: comparing mind (mana) and appreciative joy (mudita)
2020-11-09
12 talk: mindfulness of mind, including emotions
2022-01-01
12 talk: Wisdom and Compassion
2025-12-30
12 talk: Wise Effort and the Five Hindrances
2019-07-14
13 guided meditation: dyad practice, exploring gratitude and mudita for oneself
2022-08-29
13 instructions: feeling-tone or vedanā part 2
2022-01-02
13 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness itself
2019-06-09
13 instructions: mudita or appreciative joy, gladness, including for oneself
2022-01-18
13 meditation: compassion
2021-02-28
13 meditation: compassion for a good friend then oneself
2026-01-25
13 meditation: Equanimity for a "difficult" person
2020-01-18
13 meditation: mindfulness of mind
2025-10-14
13 meditation: mindfulness of the body in terms of its elemental qualities
2023-02-14
13 meditation: Mindfulness of thinking
2020-11-09
13 meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions
2024-03-04
13 meditation: Standing, tuning in to feeling-tones and cetanā
2024-07-21
13 short talk: Equanimity
2018-08-05
13 talk: sukha, happiness
2021-03-12
13 talk: the clinging-aggregate of feeling tone or vedana
2019-06-09
14 guided meditation: mudita
2019-07-20
14 guided meditation: relaxing the body, stilling the mind
2018-08-06
14 instructions: contemplating the body in terms of four elements or qualities
2020-01-18
14 instructions: mindfulness of feeling-tone
2025-10-14
14 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness, and opening to hearing
2022-01-18
14 instructions: muditā
2020-06-08
14 instructions: opening up the field of awareness to include hearing
2024-07-21
14 meditation: Equanimity
2022-01-02
14 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
2020-11-07
14 meditation: recognising skilful states
2022-06-09
14 meditation: spaciousness
2022-08-29
14 meditation: standing, noticing feeling-tones
2022-02-14
14 meditation: Well-being
2020-11-16
14 talk: a short introduction to the five hindrances
2024-04-15
14 talk: Second Noble Truth; craving for sense pleasures, craving for becoming,…
2018-08-06
15 guided meditation: contemplating the body in terms of four elements or quali…
2020-06-08
15 guided meditation: opening to sounds
2025-02-26
15 instructions and meditation: Bringing awareness to mental activity, includin…
2022-01-02
15 instructions: continuity of mindfulness p2
2025-10-14
15 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
2020-11-16
15 meditation: recognising the hindrances of desire for sense pleasure, and ave…
2022-08-29
15 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra heart qualities
2022-01-18
15 talk: equanimity
2025-05-12
15 talk: Exploring the Second Noble Truth and the Second Establishment of Mindf…
2020-01-18
15 talk: from dukkha to sukha
2021-02-28
15 talk: mudita / appreciative joy
2023-02-15
15 talk: Restlessness and remorse
2019-07-20
15 talk: wisdom and the three universal characteristics
2021-01-25
15 talk: Wise Effort and the middle way
2019-07-20
16 guided meditation: dyads, exploring fearlessness
2018-08-06
16 instructions: feeling tone or vedana
2022-01-02
16 instructions: mindfulness of feeling-tone
2021-08-09
16 instructions: working with pain
2022-08-30
16 instructios: mindfulness of hearing
2022-01-19
16 meditation: equanimity
2021-02-28
16 meditation: mudita for a good friend
2020-06-08
16 talk: befriending the mind
2019-08-27
16 talk: Five Hindrances part 2 - aversion, and the antidote of compassion
2025-02-26
16 talk: Relating to afflictive mind-states with wisdom and compassion
2022-06-09
16 talk: Seven Factors of Awakening
2021-03-13
16 talk: the Two Wings of Awakening, wisdom and compassion
2018-08-06
17 guided dyad meditation: feeling-tone
2025-02-27
17 instructions and meditation: Releasing grasping
2025-10-15
17 instructions: compassion
2021-03-01
17 instructions: equanimity as a brahmavihara
2020-06-09
17 instructions: mindfulness of the mind
2022-08-30
17 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
2021-08-09
17 meditation: practising with physical discomfort
2023-02-16
17 meditation: spaciousness
2019-07-27
17 talk: fear of freedom
2022-01-02
17 talk: feeling-tone or vedanā
2025-12-31
17 talk: From dukkha to sukha - the role of pleasure and joy on the path to fre…
2019-08-28
17 talk: impermanence and death
2020-08-23
17 talk: mindfulness of the body and impermanence
2023-08-25
17 talk: Muditā or appreciative joy
2020-06-09
18 guided meditation: practising with thoughts and emotions
2022-06-10
18 instructions: equanimity
2022-01-03
18 instructions: mindfulness of mind
2022-08-30
18 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness
2025-10-15
18 meditation: compassion
2021-03-01
18 meditation: equanimity for a "difficult" person
2022-02-15
18 reflection and standing meditation
2018-08-07
19 instructions: mindfulness of the mind
2022-06-10
19 meditation: equanimity
2022-01-03
19 meditation: mindfulness of thinking
2021-03-01
19 talk: working with difficult emotions
2018-08-07
20 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions
2025-02-28
20 instructions and meditation: Opening to gladness
2022-01-03
20 instructions: continuity of mindfulness p3
2025-10-16
20 instructions: mindfulness of mental activity
2023-08-27
20 instructions: self-compassion
2025-05-13
20 talk: Second Noble Truth; craving for becoming and non-becoming
2020-06-09
20 talk: wisdom and compassion
2022-01-03
21 instructions: mindfulness of mind-states
2020-06-09
21 instructions: practising compassion
2025-10-16
21 meditation: mindfulness of mind
2024-04-17
21 talk: An overview of the brahmavihāra with an emphasis on muditā or apprecia…
2021-03-14
21 talk: the five hindrances
2022-08-30
21 talk: Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns
2020-06-09
22 guided meditation: compassion and self-compassion
2022-08-31
22 instructions: mindfulness of mind
2025-10-16
22 meditation: opening to what's pleasant to support gladness and muditā
2022-01-03
22 talk: Five Hindrances
2025-02-28
22 talk: Insight into the impermanent, imperfect and impersonal nature of exper…
2019-08-29
22 talk: sukha and mudita - appreciative joy
2026-01-01
22 talk: Wise Effort and the three universal characteristics, with a focus on a…
2022-01-04
23 instructions: choiceless attention
2022-02-16
23 instructions: different modes of mindfulness
2022-08-31
23 meditation: mindfulness of mind
2020-06-10
23 talk: Seven factors of Awakening
2018-08-07
23 talk: the hindrance of aversion and the brahmavihara practices as antidotes
2025-05-14
23 talk: Third Noble Truth and the role of joy on the path to freedom
2025-10-17
24 instructions and meditation: choiceless attention
2018-08-08
24 instructions: metta
2020-06-11
24 instructions: mudita practice
2022-01-04
24 meditation: choiceless attention
2022-02-16
24 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
2021-01-27
24 talk: an overview of the four brahmavihara heart qualities
2021-03-15
24 talk: impermanence
2024-04-19
24 talk: The three universal characteristics and anattā
2018-08-08
25 guided meditation: metta for the benefactor
2022-01-04
25 instructions: metta practice
2023-08-28
25 talk: Exploring the Awakening Factors
2020-08-24
25 talk: the two wings of Wisdom and Compassion
2020-06-11
25: guided meditation cultivating mudita
2019-08-08
26 instructions: compassion and working with painful emotions
2021-08-11
26 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness
2020-08-24
26 meditation: metta as an inquiry practice
2022-01-04
26 meditation: metta for benefactor
2018-08-08
26 short instructions: radiating energy method of metta practice
2025-05-15
26 talk: Right Effort and Anattā
2019-08-08
27 guided meditation: compassion for a good friend, and self-compassion
2020-06-11
27 guided meditation: equanimity as spaciousness
2018-08-08
27 guided meditation: metta using the radiating energy method
2022-09-01
27 instructions: compassion
2021-08-11
27 meditation: choiceless attention
2022-02-17
27 meditation: compassion
2023-08-30
27 meditation: exploring the insubstantiality of experience
2021-03-16
27 talk: anatta / not-self and the five clinging-aggregates
2026-01-02
27 talk: Overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening
2019-08-30
27 talk: Seven Factors of Awakening
2022-01-04
27 talk: Seven Factors of Awakening
2022-01-04
28 meditation: awakening factors
2022-09-01
28 meditation: compassion and self-compassion
2018-08-08
28 talk: an overview of the brahmaviharas with a focus on compassion
2021-01-28
28 talk: Working with afflictive mind-states, including comparing mind
2018-08-09
29 instructions: compassion
2022-09-01
29 talk: Awakening Factors of Tranquility and Samādhi
2025-05-16
29 talk: Equanimity as an awakening factor
2018-08-09
30 guided meditation: compassion for a good friend
2024-01-05
30 instructions: equanimity as a brahmavihāra practice
2020-08-25
30 instructions: the four brahmavihara and compassion practice
2022-09-02
30 meditation: spaciousness
2023-08-31
30 talk: An overview of the Noble Eightfold Path
2022-01-05
30 talk: working with afflictive thought-patterns
2018-08-09
31 instructions: mudita or appreciative joy practice
2022-01-06
31 instructions: mudita p2
2020-08-25
31 meditation: compassion practice
2018-08-09
32 guided meditation: practising mudita or appreciative joy for a good friend
2022-01-06
32 meditation: mudita as appreciation for outer conditions and inner qualities
2022-02-18
32 meditation: spaciousness
2021-03-17
32 talk: working with afflictive thought patterns
2022-01-06
33 instructions: equanimity
2022-09-02
33 talk: Anattā and the Five Clinging-Aggregates
2022-09-03
34 instructions: equanimity
2018-08-10
34 instructions: Seven Factors of Awakening
2022-01-06
34 meditation: equanimity
2018-08-10
35 guided meditation: exploring the Seven Factors of Awakening
2022-09-03
35 meditation: equanimity
2020-08-26
36 instructions: the clinging aggregates of perception and mental formations
2018-08-10
37 talk: anatta or not-self and the five clinging-aggregates
2020-08-26
37 talk: common afflictive thought-patterns and some ways to help them release
2018-08-11
38 instructions: equanimity generally, and as a brahmavihara practice
2018-08-11
39 guided meditation: equanimity for a difficult person
2021-08-28
40 instructions: compassion practice
2021-08-28
41 meditation: compassion for a good friend then oneself
2022-06-23
A short talk on developing gratitude as a resource for facing up to the climate…
2019-04-18
Afternoon Instructions - Mindfulness of Mind
2019-04-15
Afternoon instructions - Vedena
2019-04-17
Afternoon Instructions - Working with Compassion
2019-09-22
An Overview Of The Four Brahma Viharas
2025-11-02
An overview of the four Brahmavihāra
2022-10-30
An overview of the four Brahmavihāra heart qualities
2018-11-04
An Overview Of The Four Brahmaviharas.
2018-11-25
Anatta And Nibbana
2023-05-14
Appreciative Joy – Muditā (Sunday)
2018-03-14
Balancing effort and enjoyment
2021-10-20
Befriending the Mind
2020-03-28
beginning meditation instructions
2023-10-31
Brahmavihara practice: Metta for benefactor and good friend
2023-11-21
Brahmavihara Practice: Mudita
2025-11-30
Celebrating the good
2023-12-03
Celebrating the Parami
2023-10-29
Clinging and release in relation to mindfulness of the body
2023-05-14
Closing Dedication (Sunday)
2022-11-16
Comparing mind
2023-05-13
Compassion (Karuṇā) (Saturday)
2025-11-15
Compassion for the "difficult" person and all beings
2019-04-16
Compassion, Karuna
2022-11-27
Contemplation of impermanence and death
2026-04-13
Contemplation: Elemental Qualities
2019-09-05
Cultivating a generous heart as the foundation of the path
2023-11-26
Effortless effort
2019-11-02
Entering into the refuge of the Forest Refuge
2018-02-09
Equanimity
2019-10-13
Equanimity
2023-05-14
Equanimity – Upekkha (Sunday)
2018-12-31
Equanimity and wisdom
2020-04-02
Equanimity as a resource in challenging times
2019-04-19
Equanimity Practice
2019-04-18
Equanimity, Upekkha
2023-11-12
Exploring Vedana
2018-10-28
Fear and Fearlessness
2025-04-27
Finding (Moments of) Ease in the Midst of it All
2023-05-17
Finding moments of ease in the midst of it all
2018-02-05
Five Hindrances
2019-09-15
Five Hindrances
2018-12-25
From suffering to ease
2025-12-07
Generosity As a Radical Dharma Practice
2022-12-01
Generosity, appreciation, celebration
2023-05-14
Guided Appreciative Joy Practice (Sunday)
2023-05-13
Guided Compassion Practice (Saturday)
2023-05-14
Guided Equanimity Practice (Sunday)
2018-02-06
Guided Meditation
2025-04-27
Guided meditation
2019-04-17
Guided Meditation - Compassion
2019-04-19
Guided Meditation - Equanimity
2022-04-28
Guided meditation equanimity P1
2022-04-30
Guided meditation equanimity p2
2022-04-14
Guided meditation exploring balanced energy or effort
2022-04-07
Guided meditation exploring generosity
2022-04-09
Guided meditation exploring mindfulness and investigation
2022-04-16
Guided meditation exploring pleasant feeling-tone
2020-03-28
guided meditation for beginners
2025-12-07
Guided meditation on resting in the present
2020-03-26
Guided meditation: orienting to compassion
2022-04-23
Guided meditation: samādhi
2022-04-21
Guided meditation: tranquility
2023-05-13
Guided Practice (Saturday)
2026-02-08
How we can connect with joy
2020-02-18
Instructions and guided meditation cultivating equanimity
2020-02-17
Instructions and guided meditation cultivating mudita
2020-02-15
Instructions and guided meditation practicing mindfulness of breathing
2020-02-16
Instructions and guided meditation using the “radiating energy“ method of metta…
2025-10-25
Instructions and guided meditation: Body as anchor
2025-11-02
Instructions and guided meditation: Choiceless attention
2023-10-28
Instructions and practice: mindfulness of emotions
2022-10-29
Instructions: mindfulness of breathing part one
2025-10-28
Instructions: practising with thinking
2019-04-14
Intentions
2022-10-27
Intro To Brahmavihara Practice
2018-02-04
Introduction and Guided Metta Meditation
2023-05-12
Introduction the retreat (Friday)
2018-02-03
Introduction To Mindfulness Of Breathing
2023-12-17
Introduction to the theme of the day: attending to the Awakening Factors
2022-11-13
Liberation through non-clinging
2022-10-13
meditation: acceptance of what is
2022-08-19
Meditation: accepting, allowing, opening to how it is right now
2021-04-22
meditation: arriving and steadying
2023-12-17
meditation: Awakening Factor of Equanimity
2023-12-17
meditation: Awakening Factor of Pītī, Joy
2020-12-03
meditation: body then mind and mental activity
2022-03-10
meditation: breathing and resilience
2026-06-18
meditation: Breathing and Thinking
2026-07-02
meditation: Breathing then bringing awareness to thinking
2020-12-17
meditation: breathing, then contemplating the benefits of sangha
2021-05-27
meditation: compassion
2025-07-31
meditation: compassion for a good friend
2025-08-14
meditation: Compassion for oneself
2026-04-08
Meditation: Connecting to Intention
2022-02-28
meditation: cultivating an attitude of welcome
2020-09-10
meditation: exploring dukkha
2026-04-20
Meditation: Exploring Effort and Ease
2020-10-22
meditation: exploring feeling-tone
2026-04-29
Meditation: Happiness and Contentment as Supports for Equanimity
2026-06-11
meditation: Mettā and compassion
2024-08-29
meditation: Mettā for a good friend
2025-07-10
meditation: Mettā for someone we care about
2022-02-10
meditation: metta infusion
2024-08-01
meditation: Mindfulness of breathing
2021-10-07
meditation: mindfulness of breathing to develop calm and ease
2020-04-09
meditation: mindfulness of breathing, then gratitude at end
2024-08-15
meditation: Mindfulness of feeling-tone
2024-08-08
meditation: Mindfulness of Hearing
2020-11-05
meditation: mindfulness of mental activity
2020-11-19
meditation: mindfulness of mind
2024-08-22
meditation: Mindfulness of mind
2022-04-10
meditation: mindfulness of mindfulness
2021-07-15
meditation: opening to appreciation and gratitude
2022-02-03
meditation: orienting to ease
2025-10-09
meditation: Orienting to equanimity
2026-02-09
meditation: Orienting to what's pleasant
2026-04-15
Meditation: Pleasant Feeling-Tones
2025-07-24
meditation: Radiating energy method of mettā practice
2024-07-17
Meditation: resting into mettā / kindness
2026-04-22
Meditation: Seeing Self-Constructing
2020-04-23
meditation: settling in to calm and steadiness
2025-10-02
meditation: Settling into muditā / gladness
2020-04-30
meditation: slowing, stilling, soothing
2020-04-16
meditation: steadying the body, the heart, the mind
2023-05-12
Metta Meditation (Friday)
2022-11-03
Mindfulness Of Cetana/Intention
2018-11-11
Mindfulness Of The Body - Part 1
2018-11-18
Mindfulness Of The Body - Part 2
2020-10-11
Monday moring meditation: body, heart and mind coming together
2019-09-14
Morning Instructions
2019-09-19
Morning Instructions
2019-04-16
Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of the Mind
2019-04-18
Morning Instructions - Working with Equanimity
2023-11-09
Morning reflection
2023-11-26
Morning reflection
2025-11-06
Morning reflection: Releasing papanca / proliferation
2025-11-22
Muditā meditation
2018-11-22
Mudita or appreciative joy guided meditation
2021-10-18
Muditā or gladness as a support for samādhi, unification of mind
2020-10-28
no excuses: 10 minute mindfulness meditation
2020-10-28
no excuses: 15 minute mindfulness meditation
2020-10-28
no excuses: 5 minute mindfulness meditation
2020-02-15
Overview of the Four Brahmavihara qualities
2019-11-29
Perception and Volitional Formations
2023-12-17
Q&R session
2019-04-19
Questions and Answers
2019-04-20
Reflection on Universal Well-Being Chant
2023-11-03
Reflections on clinging
2022-11-06
Right effort
2019-10-20
Right Effort and the Middle Way
2022-04-20
Sangha as Refuge
2025-11-09
Second Noble Truth: craving for becoming and non-becoming
2022-04-15
Seven Factors of Awakening p3: Energy and Joy
2022-04-22
Seven Factors of Awakening p4: Tranquility and Samādhi
2022-04-28
Seven Factors of Awakening p5: Equanimity
2019-12-24
Short guided compassion meditation for the Australian bushfire situation
2024-08-15
short instructions: Exploring feeling tone
2021-04-21
short meditation orienting to mudita, appreciation and gratitude
2024-07-17
short talk: an overview of brahmavihāra practice
2024-03-21
short talk: Changing our relationship to dukkha
2026-06-18
short talk: Ethics and Wise Speech
2024-01-18
short talk: Exploring freedom as the goal of our practice
2024-11-07
short talk: Exploring the relationship between dharma and politics
2024-08-15
short talk: Exploring the wheel model of experience
2024-10-31
Short talk: Halloween reflections
2023-06-15
short talk: pāramī of mettā, kindness
2024-08-01
short talk: Refreshing our insight meditation practice
2020-03-26
Short talk: some responses to the coronavirus/karuna-virus situation
2024-04-11
short talk: Tasting freedom
2024-08-08
short talk: the benefits of practising Mindfulness of the Body
2018-12-18
Suffering and self-compassion
2026-02-09
talk: ?Joy?
2025-07-10
talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra and introduction to mettā practice
2020-04-23
talk: balancing urgency and trust
2020-05-26
Talk: Coming Home to the Heart - Strengthening Our Natural Resilience to Meet L…
2026-06-11
talk: Compassion as an aspect of Wise Intention
2025-07-31
talk: Compassion p1
2025-08-14
talk: Compassion p2
2022-05-19
talk: connecting with the more than human world
2024-02-22
talk: Death contemplation, gratitude and muditā practice
2026-04-28
Talk: Equanimity as a resource for navigating transitions
2025-10-09
talk: Equanimity as the fourth brahmavihāra
2025-07-24
talk: Exploring some of the obstacles that can get in the way of mettā practice
2024-03-28
talk: Exploring the Second Noble Truth - craving for sense pleasures, craving f…
2026-04-14
Talk: Faith and Doubt
2022-02-03
talk: finding (moments of) ease in the midst of it all
2025-03-06
talk: Foundations 2 - Dāna or generosity p2
2025-03-13
talk: Foundations 3 Ethical conduct as a form of generosity
2025-02-13
talk: Foundations of the Path 1 - Generosity / dāna
2024-02-01
talk: Freedom and contemplation of death
2024-02-15
talk: Freedom and death contemplation p2
2024-01-25
talk: Freedom and Mindfulness
2020-04-16
talk: hope, hopelessness and equanimity
2020-09-10
talk: impermanence and dukkha
2024-08-22
talk: Introduction to Mindfulness of mind
2026-02-05
talk: Introduction to the Noble Eightfold Path
2022-08-18
Talk: introduction to the theme of taking refuge in Dharma
2024-07-25
talk: Maintaining and deepening the practice
2020-07-26
talk: metta and the brahamvihara as a support for resilience
2020-08-17
talk: Noble Eightfold Path p2 Right View and Right Intention
2023-02-23
talk: pāramī of dāna / generosity
2023-04-13
talk: pāramī of energy
2023-10-19
talk: pāramī of mettā - kindness, good will
2023-04-20
talk: pāramī of patience
2023-03-09
talk: pāramī of renunciation or relinquishment
2023-03-02
talk: pāramī of sīla / ethical conduct
2023-03-16
talk: pāramī of wisdom
2024-11-21
talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path P2
2024-12-05
talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path part 3
2025-10-02
talk: Reflections on retreat practice and the cultivation of muditā: gladness a…
2026-01-29
talk: Renewing motivation
2023-09-07
talk: Reviewing all ten pāramī, in conversation with Auckland Insight sangha me…
2025-10-28
Talk: Right Effort part 1
2020-08-31
talk: Right Livelihood
2022-02-10
talk: Sangha as refuge
2022-06-16
talk: sangha as support for facing in to the climate crisis
2022-03-10
talk: sangha as support for facing the challenges of our time
2020-04-30
talk: seclusion, sangha, samvega (spiritual urgency)
2022-04-01
talk: Seven Factors of Awakening
2025-04-03
talk: Sīla part 2 - the ethical training of refraining from taking what is not …
2025-04-10
talk: Sīla part 3 - Exploring the second training precept to abstain from takin…
2025-04-17
talk: Sīla part 4 - Exploring the third precept in relation to desire for intim…
2025-04-24
talk: Sīla part 5 - Exploring the fourth training precept to refrain from false…
2022-10-13
talk: taking refuge in dharma p2 - dukkha and mettā
2022-03-03
talk: Taking Refuge in Sangha p2 - the support of dāna / generosity
2020-01-30
talk: taking refuges and precepts
2020-11-05
talk: the clinging aggregates of perceptions and volitional mental formations
2020-12-03
talk: the clinging-aggregate of consciousness
2020-11-19
talk: the clinging-aggregates of perceptions and mental formations part 2
2023-08-03
talk: the pāramī of equanimity
2023-10-12
talk: the pāramī of patience and resolve
2023-06-01
talk: the pāramī of resolve
2023-05-18
talk: the pāramī of truthfulness
2020-04-09
talk: the relevance of mudita, gratitude or appreciation during difficult times
2020-07-08
Talk: the role of perceptions and formations in creating identity
2024-11-14
talk: The role of pleasure and enjoyment on the path to freedom
2020-10-22
talk: vedana or feeling-tone
2021-05-27
talk: Wise Action
2021-06-03
talk: Wise Action part 2
2021-07-15
talk: Wise Effort p2 - cultivating skilful mind-states
2021-07-01
talk: Wise Effort part 1
2026-04-07
Talk: Wise Intention
2026-03-19
talk: Wise Intention p2 - the intention to cultivate relinquishment / non-addic…
2026-05-28
talk: Wise Intention p3 - Returning
2026-03-12
talk: Wise Intention part1
2021-06-17
talk: Wise Livelihood
2021-07-29
talk: Wise Mindfulness or sati
2021-10-07
talk: Wise Samadhi
2021-05-06
talk: Wise Speech p2
2026-07-02
talk: Wise Speech p2 exploring internal speech and the inner critic
2026-02-12
talk: Wise View
2026-03-05
talk: Wise View and Wise Intention
2026-02-19
talk: Wise View part 2 Exploring self-view
2021-04-22
tallk: Wise Speech and the power of truth
2022-04-08
The awakening factors of mindfulness and investigation
2019-04-14
The Brahma Viharas for Insight and Wisdom
2023-05-13
The interrelationship between Insight practice and the four heart qualities (Sa…
2023-05-12
The interrelationship between the four heart practices (Friday)
2018-12-02
The Miracle Of Generosity And Gratitude
2025-11-16
The Third Noble Truth and the Seven Factors of Awakening
2018-03-08
The Two Wings to Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion
2018-02-08
Wisdom and Compassion
2019-11-08
Wisdom and the Body
2019-11-15
Wisdom and the Body - Part Two
2019-11-22
Wisdom and Vedana / Feeling-tone
2026-04-21
Wise Effort and Anatta
2025-11-23
Wise Effort Part 2
2021-11-18
Wise View p2
2019-09-29
Working With Afflictive Thought Patterns 1: Wisdom as antidote
2019-10-06
Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 2: Compassion
2023-11-19
Working with anxiety and other afflictive states
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
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December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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Finding the Heart of Wisdom
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Befriending the mind
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Transforming Fear into Fearlessness
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Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion
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Freedom Here and Now
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
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New Year, New Beginnings
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Foundations of Insight
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Deepening Insight - a series of talks for Auckland Insight
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Introduction to Insight Meditation
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Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023
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Seven-day insight meditation retreat
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Two-week insight meditation retreat
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