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Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

This nine-day insight meditation retreat offers an opportunity to strengthen both the wisdom and the compassion wings of awakening. We will explore a variety of different practices taken from the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, alongside the four brahma-vihara heart practices of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

2018-08-03 (10 days) Te Moata Retreat Center

  
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2018-08-09 31 instructions: mudita or appreciative joy practice 14:53
Jill Shepherd
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An overview of mudita, appreciative joy, as one of the four brahmavihara practices, and how to practice it for a good friend
2018-08-09 32 guided meditation: practising mudita or appreciative joy for a good friend 21:19
Jill Shepherd
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Starting with metta practice, then turning it towards what's going well in a good friend's life, and offering them mudita or appreciative joy using the reciting phrases method of practice
2018-08-09 33 talk: equanimity and the practice of death contemplation 21:45  RO Talk is visible to Retreants Only
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring equanimity as a brahmavihara and an awakening factor, and its relationship to contemplation of death as a practice of cultivating fearlessness
2018-08-10 34 instructions: Seven Factors of Awakening 16:50
Jill Shepherd
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An overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening, their relationship to the five hindrances, and their role in supporting insight
2018-08-10 35 guided meditation: exploring the Seven Factors of Awakening 28:28
Jill Shepherd
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Mostly silent meditation practising choiceless awareness, with occasional instructions to check for the presence or absence of each of the seven factors of awakening: mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquillity, concentration, and equanimity
2018-08-10 36 guided meditation: exploring our own dying process 31:46  RO Talk is visible to Retreants Only
Jill Shepherd
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A short introduction to contemplating one's own mortality, then a guided meditation to connect imaginatively with our own dying process, based on an exercise from Joan Halifax Roshi's book Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
2018-08-10 37 talk: anatta or not-self and the five clinging-aggregates 43:34
Jill Shepherd
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An introduction to anatta or not-self and an exploration of the suffering that comes from clinging to the five aggregates
2018-08-11 38 instructions: equanimity generally, and as a brahmavihara practice 18:22
Jill Shepherd
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Bringing equanimity to the ending of the retreat and the inevitable ups and downs, then instructions for the brahmavihara practice of equanimity for a difficult person
2018-08-11 39 guided meditation: equanimity for a difficult person 25:10
Jill Shepherd
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Guided meditation cultivating equanimity for a so-called "difficult" person, then oneself, using the reciting phrases method of brahmavihara practice
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