Jill Shepherd's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Dec 05 2024 704 ep. 27 mins 233
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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.

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Jill Shepherd: talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path part 3

Dec 05 2024 27 mins  
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at two common reactions to pleasant sense-based experiences: clinging or anxiety; and the Buddha's crucial distinction between sense-based pleasures, which tend to reinforce clinging, and the mental pleasure that comes from cultivating skilful mind-states

Jill Shepherd: talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path P2

Nov 21 2024 18 mins  
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at the conditioning that can get in the way of opening to pleasant experiences, using the framework of the three core personality types: greed, aversive and delusion

Jill Shepherd: talk: The role of pleasure and enjoyment on the path to freedom

Nov 14 2024 27 mins  
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at the common tendency to turn regular practice into a duty or chore, and the importance of appreciating the benefits that come from meditation using the criteria of the ten pāramī ie generosity, ethical integrity, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve and determination, mettā and equanimity

Jill Shepherd: short talk: Exploring the relationship between dharma and politics

Nov 07 2024 15 mins  
(Auckland Insight Meditation) How might we respond to the results of the 2024 US election?

Jill Shepherd: Short talk: Halloween reflections

Oct 31 2024 16 mins  
(Auckland Insight Meditation) What haunts you, and what helps you face fear?

Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mettā for a good friend

Aug 29 2024 26 mins  
(Auckland Insight Meditation)

Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mindfulness of mind

Aug 22 2024 16 mins  
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing mindfulness to thoughts and emotions (Note: the first five minutes of the meditation with instructions for settling into the body sitting and breathing, were not recorded)

Jill Shepherd: talk: Introduction to Mindfulness of mind

Aug 22 2024 18 mins  
(Auckland Insight Meditation)

Jill Shepherd: short talk: Exploring the wheel model of experience

Aug 15 2024 10 mins  
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Based on some teaching by Gil Fronsdal, looking at the role of feeling-tone in driving reactivity, when there's no mindfulness

Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mindfulness of feeling-tone

Aug 15 2024 25 mins  
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing mindfulness to pleasant, neutral then unpleasant feeling-tones in relation to seeing, hearing, and physical sensations