Jill Shepherd's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
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.
Jill Shepherd: 15 talk: An Overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening, with a focus on Mindfulness
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 14 meditation: Mindfulness of hearing
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 13 meditation: Mettā for oneself
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 12 talk: Dāna and Mettā as supportive conditions for the development of the awakening factors
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 11 meditation: Exploring cetana or intention, the about-to moment
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 10 meditation: Mindfulness of feeling-tones / vedanā
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 09 talk: The five hindrances part 2 - sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and sceptical doubt
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 08 meditation: Mostly silent, with suggestions at the start for choosing which practice to do
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 07 meditation: Mental noting of physical sensations
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Using the tool of mental noting or labelling to help stay present with elemental qualities in breathing and the whole body, including the experience of pain
Jill Shepherd: 06 talk: Supportive conditions
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 05 meditation: Mindfulness of the body in relation to the four elemental qualities
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 04 meditation: Mindfulness of breathing in long and short
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning to notice some of the details of breathing, still maintaining an open, spacious awareness
Jill Shepherd: 03 talk: Hindrances of Sense Desire and Aversion
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Some suggestions for developing a more skilful relationship to the hindrances of desire for sense pleasure and aversion or ill will
Jill Shepherd: 02 instructions and meditation: Mindfulness of breathing 2
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Attuning to the different energetic effects of inhaling and exhaling
Jill Shepherd: 01 meditation: Establishing mindfulness of the body, breathing
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Speech p2 exploring internal speech and the inner critic
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Breathing then bringing awareness to thinking
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: short talk: Ethics and Wise Speech
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Breathing and Thinking
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Compassion as an aspect of Wise Intention
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mettā and compassion
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 12 meditation: Opening to mudita gladness and upekkha equanimity
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 11 short talk: An overview of Buddhist ethics
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 10 meditation: Choiceless attention
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 09 meditation: Mettā and compassion as expressions of Wise Intention
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 08 meditation: Mindfulness of breathing to develop sati and samādhi
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 07 instructions: Mindfulness of breathing to develop sati and samādhi
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 06 talk: Introduction to the Second Noble Truth
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 05 short talk: First Noble Truth
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 04 short instructions: Continuity of mindfulness
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 03 meditation: Body scan inviting ease
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 02 instructions: Mindfulness
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Intention p3 - Returning
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: Meditation: Happiness and Contentment as Supports for Equanimity
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Jill Shepherd: Talk: Equanimity as a resource for navigating transitions
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Jill Shepherd: Meditation: Seeing Self-Constructing
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Jill Shepherd: Wise Effort and Anatta
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Some suggestions for exploring anatta/not-self as a support for bothwise effort and deepening insight.
Jill Shepherd: Meditation: Exploring Effort and Ease
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Jill Shepherd: Meditation: Pleasant Feeling-Tones
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Attuning to pleasant vedana as support for developing skillful mental qualities.
Jill Shepherd: Talk: Faith and Doubt
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring some of the many ways doubt can show up, and how Saddha (faith, trust, confidence) can be actively cultivated as an antidote
