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Retreat Dharma Talks at Auckland Insight Meditation

Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors

A day of online meditation, exploring the Seven Factors for Awakening with Jill Shepherd, Willa Reid and Elizabeth Day

2023-12-17 (1 day) Auckland Insight Meditation

  
2023-12-17 Introduction to the theme of the day: attending to the Awakening Factors 37:33
Jill Shepherd, Elizabeth Day, Willa Thaniya Reid
Introduction to the teachers and the theme: the Awakening Factors as good friends Guided meditation establishing mindfulness of the body and breathing
2023-12-17 meditation: Awakening Factor of Investigation 33:36
Willa Thaniya Reid
Establishing conditions that support the mind to know what is here, and what is needed
2023-12-17 meditation: Awakening Factor of Energy or Effort 34:08
Elizabeth Day
Effortless effort as the balance of alertness and tranquility; applying the effort needed to fend off entropy and avoid returning to the stresses and strains of an untrained mind
2023-12-17 meditation: Awakening Factor of Pītī, Joy 30:55
Jill Shepherd
Using mindfulness of breathing to support energising and lightening into subtle pleasantness and joy
2023-12-17 meditation: Awakening Factor of Tranquillity or Passaddhi 29:39
Willa Thaniya Reid
Establishing settledness, groundedness, attuning to the body's earthiness supports sittingn like a mountain, the mind becoming stable, calm, non-trembling, not agitated
2023-12-17 meditation: awakening factor of Samādhi 30:12
Elizabeth Day
2023-12-17 meditation: Awakening Factor of Equanimity 33:36
Jill Shepherd
2023-12-17 Q&R session 26:11
Jill Shepherd, Elizabeth Day, Willa Thaniya Reid
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