Jill Shepherd's most recent Dharma talks (Common Ground Meditation 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: talk: Wise Action and Wise Activism
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Speech 3
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring societal conditioning that affects how we relate to each other
Jill Shepherd: 32 meditation: Awakening Factors review
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 31 talk: The Awakening Factor of Equanimity
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 30 meditation: Spacious awareness
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 29 talk: The awakening factor of Samādhi
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 28 meditation: Calming the body-mind
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring the awakening factor of Tranquility
Jill Shepherd: 27 talk: The Awakening Factor of Tranquility
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 26 meditation: Gladdening the Mind
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 25 talk: The Awakening Factor of Joy
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 24 meditation: Exploring the self-constructing process
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 23 short instructions: Exploring the self-constructing process
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 22 talk: Wisdom and Compassion
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 21 meditation: Self-compassion
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 20 talk: The Awakening Factor of Viriya, Unshakeable Energy
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 19 meditation: Choiceless attention
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 18 talk: The awakening factor of investigation and its connection to insight into impermanence
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 17 meditation: Mindfulness of mental activity
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 16 instructions: Mindfulness of mind
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Bringing awareness to different types of mental activity
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)
