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Retreat Dharma Talks

Auckland Insight meetings 2025

Auckland Insight weekly meetings 2025

2025-02-13 (309 days) Auckland Insight Meditation

  
2025-02-13 talk: Foundations of the Path 1 - Generosity / dāna 30:49
Jill Shepherd
Beginning the year by refreshing the foundations of our practice, starting with a brief overview of what insight meditation is, then exploring how generosity supports this path to freedom all along the way
2025-03-06 talk: Foundations 2 - Dāna or generosity p2 22:31
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the practice of generosity as an antidote to the individual, societal and environmental harm caused by excessive greed and self-interest
2025-03-13 talk: Foundations 3 Ethical conduct as a form of generosity 28:04
Jill Shepherd
2025-04-03 talk: Sīla part 2 - the ethical training of refraining from taking what is not given 26:17
Jill Shepherd
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
2025-04-10 talk: Sīla part 3 - Exploring the second training precept to abstain from taking what is not given 25:57
Jill Shepherd
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"
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