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: 10 talk: The brahmavihāra heart practices as support for ethical living
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 7 Fifth Training Precept
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the training to refrain from misusing intoxicants and broadening it to investigate other aspects of our lives where there can be a more compulsive or addictive relationship, for example in how we relate to our phones and technology
Jill Shepherd: 09 talk: Sīla part 7 Fifth Training Precept
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the training to refrain from misusing intoxicants and broadening it to investigate other aspects of our lives where there can be a more compulsive or addictive relationship, for example in how we relate to our phones and technology
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 6 Mindful listening as a support for Wise Speech
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Continuing to explore the fourth precept, the commitment to refrain from false and harsh speech, by looking at mindful listening as a support for skilful speech
Jill Shepherd: 08 talk: Sīla part 6 Mindful listening as a support for Wise Speech
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Continuing to explore the fourth precept, the commitment to refrain from false and harsh speech, by looking at mindful listening as a support for skilful speech
Jill Shepherd: 29 talk: Equanimity as an awakening factor
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 26 talk: Right Effort and Anattā
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring the four aspects of Right Effort, and how investigating anattā or not-self support the shift into more effortless effort
Jill Shepherd: 23 talk: Third Noble Truth and the role of joy on the path to freedom
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 20 talk: Second Noble Truth; craving for becoming and non-becoming
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring comparing mind and the inner critic as aspects of clinging to self-view
Jill Shepherd: 15 talk: Exploring the Second Noble Truth and the Second Establishment of Mindfulness
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 10 talk: An overview of the four Brahmavihāra heart practices
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 05 talk: Dukkha in the context of the First Noble Truth and the three characteristics
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 5 - Exploring the fourth training precept to refrain from false speech
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Exploring the fourth training precept to refrain from false speech
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 4 - Exploring the third precept in relation to desire for intimacy
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Exploring the third precept in relation to desire for intimacy
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 3 - Exploring the second training precept to abstain from taking what is not given
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at the second of Thich Nhat Hanh's Five Mindfulness Trainings, which he expands to include "I am committed to practicing Right Livelihood so that I can help reduce the suffering of living beings on Earth and stop contributing to climate change"
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 2 - the ethical training of refraining from taking what is not given
(Auckland Insight Meditation) How the practice of dāna, generosity, supports a sense of abundance rather than lack, then looking at the wider societal and environmental benefits of bringing more awareness to not taking what's not freely offered
Jill Shepherd: talk: Foundations 3 Ethical conduct as a form of generosity
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Foundations 2 - Dāna or generosity p2
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the practice of generosity as an antidote to the individual, societal and environmental harm caused by excessive greed and self-interest
