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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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2025-08-14 talk: Compassion p2 28:15
Exploring the "near and far enemies" of compassion, and the practice of bearing witness when facing overwhelming suffering
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-08-14 meditation: Compassion for oneself 25:32
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-07-31 talk: Compassion p1 25:11
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-07-31 meditation: compassion for a good friend 26:11
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-07-24 talk: Exploring some of the obstacles that can get in the way of mettā practice 28:44
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-07-24 meditation: Radiating energy method of mettā practice 28:54
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-07-10 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra and introduction to mettā practice 27:37
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-07-10 meditation: Mettā for someone we care about 27:50
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-06-19 10 talk: The brahmavihāra heart practices as support for ethical living 31:01
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-06-12 09 talk: Sīla part 7 Fifth Training Precept 29:14
Exploring the training to refrain from misusing intoxicants and broadening it to investigate other aspects of our lives where there can be a more compulsive or addictive relationship, for example in how we relate to our phones and technology
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-06-05 08 talk: Sīla part 6 Mindful listening as a support for Wise Speech 17:50
Continuing to explore the fourth precept, the commitment to refrain from false and harsh speech, by looking at mindful listening as a support for skilful speech
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-05-16 29 talk: Equanimity as an awakening factor 37:06
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Nine-day retreat: Seeing clearly, finding freedom
2025-05-15 26 talk: Right Effort and Anattā 45:18
Exploring the four aspects of Right Effort, and how investigating anattā or not-self support the shift into more effortless effort
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Nine-day retreat: Seeing clearly, finding freedom
2025-05-14 23 talk: Third Noble Truth and the role of joy on the path to freedom 43:17
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Nine-day retreat: Seeing clearly, finding freedom
2025-05-13 20 talk: Second Noble Truth; craving for becoming and non-becoming 37:48
Exploring comparing mind and the inner critic as aspects of clinging to self-view
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Nine-day retreat: Seeing clearly, finding freedom
2025-05-12 15 talk: Exploring the Second Noble Truth and the Second Establishment of Mindfulness 44:01
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Nine-day retreat: Seeing clearly, finding freedom
2025-05-11 10 talk: An overview of the four Brahmavihāra heart practices 42:58
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Nine-day retreat: Seeing clearly, finding freedom
2025-05-10 05 talk: Dukkha in the context of the First Noble Truth and the three characteristics 36:09
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Nine-day retreat: Seeing clearly, finding freedom
2025-04-24 talk: Sīla part 5 - Exploring the fourth training precept to refrain from false speech 34:45
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-04-17 talk: Sīla part 4 - Exploring the third precept in relation to desire for intimacy 25:45
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-04-10 talk: Sīla part 3 - Exploring the second training precept to abstain from taking what is not given 25:57
Looking at the second of Thich Nhat Hanh's Five Mindfulness Trainings, which he expands to include "I am committed to practicing Right Livelihood so that I can help reduce the suffering of living beings on Earth and stop contributing to climate change"
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-04-03 talk: Sīla part 2 - the ethical training of refraining from taking what is not given 26:17
How the practice of dāna, generosity, supports a sense of abundance rather than lack, then looking at the wider societal and environmental benefits of bringing more awareness to not taking what's not freely offered
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-03-13 talk: Foundations 3 Ethical conduct as a form of generosity 28:04
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-03-06 talk: Foundations 2 - Dāna or generosity p2 22:31
Exploring the practice of generosity as an antidote to the individual, societal and environmental harm caused by excessive greed and self-interest
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2025-02-28 22 talk: Insight into the impermanent, imperfect and impersonal nature of experience 25:14
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

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