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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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2022-09-01 27 instructions: compassion 19:31
A brief exploration of some of the challenges to practising compassion, and ways to help stay balanced
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom
2022-08-31 23 meditation: mindfulness of mind 28:55
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations and sounds, then bringing awareness to mental activity
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom
2022-08-31 22 instructions: mindfulness of mind 15:13
Bringing awareness to mental activity: thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-states, and training in knowing the process of thinking without getting involved in the content of the thoughts
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom
2022-08-30 21 talk: Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 46:52
Exploring common afflictive thought-patterns such as lack mind, comparing mind and the inner critic, and orienting to wisdom and compassion to help them release
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom
2022-08-30 18 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness 6:50
Bringing awareness to the quality of mindfulness itself, and changing to different "styles" of mindfulness to help the mind stay balanced.
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom
2022-08-30 17 meditation: mindfulness of hearing 29:55
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom
2022-08-30 16 instructios: mindfulness of hearing 11:45
Opening up the field of awareness from breathing, to physical sensations to receiving sounds
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom
2022-08-29 15 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra heart qualities 40:37
kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom
2022-08-29 14 meditation: standing, noticing feeling-tones 24:23
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom
2022-08-29 13 instructions: feeling-tone or vedanā part 2 20:54
Beginning to deconstruct our experience into its component parts, beginning with sense contacts and feeling-tones, and seeing how these condition reactivity when there's no mindfulness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

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