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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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2025-05-13 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

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