Jill Shepherd's most recent Dharma talks (Common Ground Meditation Center)

Jill Shepherd: 22 talk: Insight into the impermanent, imperfect and impersonal nature of experience 28.02.2025 25:14 ↓

(Te Moata Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: 20 instructions and meditation: Opening to gladness 28.02.2025 42:46 ↓

(Te Moata Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: 17 instructions and meditation: Releasing grasping 27.02.2025 45:38 ↓

(Te Moata Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: 16 talk: Relating to afflictive mind-states with wisdom and compassion 26.02.2025 26:02 ↓

(Te Moata Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: 15 instructions and meditation: Bringing awareness to mental activity, including thoughts, emotions and mind-states 26.02.2025 36:04 ↓

(Te Moata Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: 11 instructions and meditation: Exploring the presence (and absence) of the hindrances 25.02.2025 46:40 ↓

(Te Moata Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: 10 talk: Five Hindrances 24.02.2025 29:28 ↓

(Te Moata Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: 09 meditation: Opening to sound 24.02.2025 39:01 ↓

(Te Moata Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: 05 meditation: Mindfulness of the body and physical sensations 23.02.2025 30:33 ↓

(Te Moata Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: 04 talk: Taking the Refuges and Precepts 22.02.2025 37:13 ↓

(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 22.02.2025 36:29 ↓

(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 13.02.2025 30:49 ↓

(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 05.12.2024 27:12 ↓

(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 21.11.2024 18:55 ↓

(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 14.11.2024 27:36 ↓

(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 07.11.2024 15:05 ↓

(Auckland Insight Meditation) How might we respond to the results of the 2024 US election?

Jill Shepherd: Short talk: Halloween reflections 31.10.2024 16:27 ↓

(Auckland Insight Meditation) What haunts you, and what helps you face fear?

Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mettā for a good friend 29.08.2024 26:50 ↓

(Auckland Insight Meditation)

Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mindfulness of mind 22.08.2024 16:49 ↓

(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)