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

10 Episodes
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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: short talk: Changing our relationship to dukkha
03/21/2024

(Auckland Insight Meditation)


Jill Shepherd: 13 meditation: Standing, tuning in to feeling-tones and cetanā
03/04/2024

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)


Jill Shepherd: talk: Death contemplation, gratitude and muditā practice
02/22/2024

(Auckland Insight Meditation)


Jill Shepherd: talk: Freedom and death contemplation p2
02/15/2024

(Auckland Insight Meditation)


Jill Shepherd: talk: Freedom and contemplation of death
02/01/2024

(Auckland Insight Meditation)


Jill Shepherd: talk: Freedom and Mindfulness
01/25/2024

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Continuing to explore freedom in the context of the Buddha's teachings, how mindfulness supports it, and some ways to maintain mindfulness in everyday life


Jill Shepherd: short talk: Exploring freedom as the goal of our practice
01/18/2024

(Auckland Insight Meditation) A short talk introducing a new theme for the start of the new year The Way to Freedom: what hinders, and what helps Each week we'll be looking at some of the common obstacles that cause stress, distress and suffering in our lives, and what we can do to support experiencing more ease, happiness and peace, instead Focusing on what freedom means to each of us with a written contemplation, then looking briefly at the three core afflictive energies of greed or compulsion, hatred or aversion,, and ignorance or delusion


Jill Shepherd: 10 meditation: cultivating the heart energy of mettā or kindness
01/13/2024

(Australian Insight Meditation Network) A short meditation to develop mettā, beginning by establishing well-being in the body then attuning to the energy of kindness at the heart-centre


Jill Shepherd: 09 instructions: cultivating skilful mind-states such as mettā or kindness
01/13/2024

(Australian Insight Meditation Network) Short instructions for developing mettā or kindness as a skilful mental quality


Jill Shepherd: 08 instructions: proliferation
01/13/2024

(Australian Insight Meditation Network) Short instructions for working with mental proliferation or papanca, seeing the chain reactions that cause it and coming back to the immediacy of sense-based experience to re-ground awareness