Jill Shepherd's most recent Dharma talks (Common Ground Meditation Center)
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Jill Shepherd: Guided meditation
(London Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 5 - Exploring the fourth training precept to refrain from false speech
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 4 - Exploring the third precept in relation to desire for intimacy
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 3 - Exploring the second training precept to abstain from taking what is not given
(Auckland Insight Meditation) 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"
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 2 - the ethical training of refraining from taking what is not given
(Auckland Insight Meditation) 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
Jill Shepherd: talk: Foundations 3 Ethical conduct as a form of generosity
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Foundations 2 - Dāna or generosity p2
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the practice of generosity as an antidote to the individual, societal and environmental harm caused by excessive greed and self-interest
Jill Shepherd: 22 talk: Insight into the impermanent, imperfect and impersonal nature of experience
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 20 instructions and meditation: Opening to gladness
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 17 instructions and meditation: Releasing grasping
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 16 talk: Relating to afflictive mind-states with wisdom and compassion
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 15 instructions and meditation: Bringing awareness to mental activity, including thoughts, emotions and mind-states
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 11 instructions and meditation: Exploring the presence (and absence) of the hindrances
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 10 talk: Five Hindrances
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 09 meditation: Opening to sound
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 05 meditation: Mindfulness of the body and physical sensations
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 04 talk: Taking the Refuges and Precepts
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Introducing the five indriya, focusing on the first one, confidence or trust, and how taking refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and committing to the five precepts helps strengthen inner confidence
Jill Shepherd: 03 meditation: Arriving more fully here
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Settling in to the body sitting, breathing, balancing the overall energy through the rhythm of breathing in and out Closing with short instructions for maintaining continuity of mindfulness
Jill Shepherd: talk: Foundations of the Path 1 - Generosity / dāna
(Auckland Insight Meditation) 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
Jill Shepherd: talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path part 3
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at two common reactions to pleasant sense-based experiences: clinging or anxiety; and the Buddha's crucial distinction between sense-based pleasures, which tend to reinforce clinging, and the mental pleasure that comes from cultivating skilful mind-states
Jill Shepherd: talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path P2
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at the conditioning that can get in the way of opening to pleasant experiences, using the framework of the three core personality types: greed, aversive and delusion
Jill Shepherd: talk: The role of pleasure and enjoyment on the path to freedom
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at the common tendency to turn regular practice into a duty or chore, and the importance of appreciating the benefits that come from meditation using the criteria of the ten pāramī ie generosity, ethical integrity, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve and determination, mettā and equanimity
Jill Shepherd: short talk: Exploring the relationship between dharma and politics
(Auckland Insight Meditation) How might we respond to the results of the 2024 US election?
Jill Shepherd: Short talk: Halloween reflections
(Auckland Insight Meditation) What haunts you, and what helps you face fear?
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mettā for a good friend
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mindfulness of mind
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing mindfulness to thoughts and emotions (Note: the first five minutes of the meditation with instructions for settling into the body sitting and breathing, were not recorded)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Introduction to Mindfulness of mind
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: short talk: Exploring the wheel model of experience
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Based on some teaching by Gil Fronsdal, looking at the role of feeling-tone in driving reactivity, when there's no mindfulness
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mindfulness of feeling-tone
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing mindfulness to pleasant, neutral then unpleasant feeling-tones in relation to seeing, hearing, and physical sensations
Jill Shepherd: short instructions: Exploring feeling tone
(Auckland Insight Meditation) An introduction to practising with the Second Establishment of Mindfulness, mindfulness of feeling-tone or vedanā
Jill Shepherd: short talk: the benefits of practising Mindfulness of the Body
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mindfulness of Hearing
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with mindfulness of breathing and bodily sensations, then opening to the experience of hearing
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mindfulness of breathing
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: short talk: Refreshing our insight meditation practice
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Maintaining and deepening the practice
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 14 meditation: Equanimity
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 13 short talk: Equanimity
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 12 meditation: appreciating one's own strengths
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 11 instructions: Muditā for oneself
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 10 meditation: Muditā using the radiating energy method of practice
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 09 talk: Muditā or appreciative joy
(Southern Insight Meditation) A short introduction to cultivating muditā, gladness or appreciative joy, using the radiating-energy method of practice
Jill Shepherd: 08 meditation: Settling and stilling the body and mind
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 06 meditation: Compassion for a good friend
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 05 short talk: Compassion
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 04 meditation: Resting into mettā / kindness
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 03 talk: Exploring mettā as rest
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 02 meditation: mettā for benefactor
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 01 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra heart qualities
(Southern Insight Meditation) Exploring how kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity work together to keep the heart in balance
Jill Shepherd: short talk: an overview of brahmavihāra practice
(Southern Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: Meditation: resting into mettā / kindness
(Southern Insight Meditation)