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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.
2017-09-14 Short instructions: equanimity and the eight worldly winds 6:54
Cultivating equanimity at the end of a retreat, and a brief introduction of equanimity in relation to the eight worldly winds
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-13 Talk: anatta not-self and the five aggregates subject to clinging 51:34
Not-self or anatta and an overview of the five aggregates subject to clinging
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-12 Guided meditation: equanimity for difficult person 23:19
Exploring equanimity in relation to a difficult or "sticky" person, someone whom we have an agenda for, then in relation to ourselves
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-12 Instructions: equanimity for difficult person 10:48
Exploring equanimity in relation to a "difficult" person
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-11 Talk: Seven Factors of Awakening 40:43
An overview of the seven factors of awakening and how to work skilfully with more refined states of mind
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-10 Guided meditation: mudita for oneself and a good friend 22:17
Guided meditation appreciation one's own good qualities and good fortune, then those of a good friend
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-10 Instructions: mudita for oneself 11:03
Exploring the Buddha's instructions to Mahanama to contemplate his own generosity and virtues, as a basis for practising mudita for oneself
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-09 Talk: mudita - appreciative joy 44:18
Exploring the brahma vihara practice of mudita, the obstacles that get in the way of it, and suggestions for beginning to develop the quality of joy as a support for insight practice
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-09 Guided meditation: refining mindfulness of breathing, using mental noting 39:16
Beginning with the instruction to calm the bodily formations, then refining attention on the specific characteristics of each breath
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-09 Very short instructions for refining mindfulness of breathing 4:34
Maintaining relaxed awareness while bringing more precision to mindfulness of breathing, using the tool of mental noting when helpful
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

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