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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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2017-02-23 20 instructions: metta practice 11:45
An overview of metta practice, with instructions for working with the category of benefactor
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-23 19 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 24:44
Guided meditation beginning with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-23 18 instructions: Mindfulness of Mind 16:15
Introduction to the Third Foundation of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Mind, and skilful ways of relating to thoughts
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-22 17 talk: Vedana, Right Thought, Metta and Compassion 41:09
Exploring vedana or feeling-tone as the building block of reactivity, and metta or good will and compassion or harmlessness as aspects of Right Thought
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-22 16 instructions: concentration and feeling-tone (vedana) part 2 16:35
Brief introduction of Right Concentration and the potential for pleasant feeling-tone (vedana) to support ease
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-22 15 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, sounds 25:41
Guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, then opening to sounds
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-22 14 instructions: different qualities of mindfulness 14:21
An exploration of different qualities of mindfulness, including the technique of mental noting and more open forms of awareness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-21 13 talk: Right View and Right Thought 43:31
An overview of Right View and Right Thought (or Right Intention), focusing on renunciation as a way to happiness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-21 12 guided dyad (pairs) meditation: pleasant and unpleasant feeling-tone (vedana) 8:15
Guided dyad meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone (vedana), beginning with separate speaker and listener (allow 3 minutes for each speaker)
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-21 11 instructions: Second Foundation of Mindfulness - vedana or feeling-tone 10:17
A short exploration of the Second Foundation of Mindfulness, vedana or feeling-tone, as the basic recognition of any sense contact as pleasant, unpleasant, or neither pleasant nor unpleasant
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

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