Common Ground Meditation Center: Jill Shepherd's most recent Dharma talks
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: 08 talk: Right Effort p2 - Seven Factors of Awakening
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Continuing to explore Right Effort as the capacity to release the hindrances and help the Seven Factors of Awakening to arise
Jill Shepherd: 07 instructions: mindfulness of the body in terms of the four elemental qualities
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) An introduction to experiencing the body in terms of the elemental qualities of earth, water, fire and air
Jill Shepherd: 06 meditation: spaciousness and mettā
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Orienting to the energy of mettā / kindness as a support for more openness and ease in the body, heart and mind
Jill Shepherd: 05 instructions: cultivating spaciousness and metta
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Continuing with the exploration of clinging and release, noticing what gets in the way and what supports more openness and ease, with an invitation to orient to mettā
Jill Shepherd: 04 talk: Right Effort p1 - the Five Hindrances
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 04 talk: Right Effort and the Five Hindrances
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 03 instructions: mindfulness of the body
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning to sensitise our awareness to notice the physical symptoms of clinging and release
Jill Shepherd: 02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning by establishing awareness of the body sitting, and simply receiving the experience of breathing
Jill Shepherd: 01 instructions: developing mindfulness and steadiness of mind
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Developing sati / mindfulness and samadhi / steadiness of mind, to sensitise us to what supports ease, and what gets in the way
Jill Shepherd: 34 meditation: equanimity
(Sydney Insight Meditators) Starting with the usual anchors of body, physical sensations and sounds, then opening to choiceless attention and cultivating an attitude of equanimity or non-reactivity in relation to whatever we're experiencing
Jill Shepherd: 33 instructions: equanimity
(Sydney Insight Meditators) A short introduction to equanimity as a support for the ending of the retreat
Jill Shepherd: 32 meditation: mudita as appreciation for outer conditions and inner qualities
(Sydney Insight Meditators) Beginning by acknowledging what we can appreciate about the outer conditions of being on retreat, then orienting to the skilful inner qualities that have been strengthened, specifically the seven factors of awakening
Jill Shepherd: 31 instructions: mudita p2
(Sydney Insight Meditators) As the retreat comes to a close, noticing the tendency for the mind to go into future thinking, and come back to abiding in the skilful qualities that have been developed here, specifically mudita as a form of appreciation or gratitude
Jill Shepherd: 30 talk: working with afflictive thought-patterns
(Sydney Insight Meditators)
Jill Shepherd: 27 talk: Seven Factors of Awakening
(Sydney Insight Meditators) An overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening
Jill Shepherd: 26 meditation: metta for benefactor
(Sydney Insight Meditators) Beginning with metta for a benefactor, then oneself, mostly using the reciting phrases practice method
Jill Shepherd: 25 instructions: metta practice
(Sydney Insight Meditators) Brief instructions for cultivating metta or kindness for a benefactor
Jill Shepherd: 24 meditation: choiceless attention
(Sydney Insight Meditators) Beginning by stabilising awareness on the breath, physical sensations and sounds, then opening to choiceless attention, letting the awareness connect with whatever experience is predominant
Jill Shepherd: 28 meditation: awakening factors
(Sydney Insight Meditators) Noticing the presence or absence of each of the seven awakening factors
Jill Shepherd: 23 instructions: choiceless attention
(Sydney Insight Meditators) Instructions for letting go of having a single meditation object, and moving to choiceless attention, letting the awareness connect with whatever experience is predominant
Jill Shepherd: 22 talk: Five Hindrances
(Sydney Insight Meditators) An overview of the Five Hindrances, afflictive mental states that get in the way of clear seeing
