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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Auckland Insight Meditation
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Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat
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| This seven day on-line retreat draws on the strengths of both silent and relational insight meditation to support an engaged exploration of the Buddha’s core teachings on freedom: freedom from afflictive states such as anger, fear, sadness, greed; and freedom to live with more ease, happiness, and peace. |
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2020-06-06 (7 days)
Auckland Insight Meditation
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2020-06-06
07 talk: mindfulness and clear comprehension
24:08
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Jill Shepherd
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Exploring a variety of definitions of mindfulness, highlighting the aspect of clear comprehension as a support for insight, ending with dyad (pairs) practice investigating the experience of mindfulness in the moment
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2020-06-08
15 guided meditation: opening to sounds
28:49
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Jill Shepherd
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Beginning with mindfulness of breathing to steady the awareness, then opening to physical sensations throughout the body, then opening to the experience of hearing, staying present to sounds as they arise and pass away
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2020-06-08
16 talk: befriending the mind
43:27
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Jill Shepherd
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Exploring Mindfulness of the Mind as a means to develop a friendlier and more skilful relationship with our thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-states
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2020-06-09
20 talk: wisdom and compassion
48:03
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Jill Shepherd
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How insight and the heart qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity balance each other out to support the development of deep freedom
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