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Dharma Talks given at Auckland Insight Meditation
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2025-04-24 talk: Exploring the fourth training precept to refrain from false speech 34:45
Jill Shepherd
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Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-04-17 talk: Exploring the third precept in relation to desire for intimacy 25:45
Jill Shepherd
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Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-04-10 talk: Sīla part 3 - Exploring the second training precept to abstain from taking what is not given 25:57
Jill Shepherd
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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"
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-04-03 talk: Sīla part 2 - the ethical training of refraining from taking what is not given 26:17
Jill Shepherd
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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
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-03-13 talk: Foundations 3 Ethical conduct as a form of generosity 28:04
Jill Shepherd
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Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-03-06 talk: Foundations 2 - Dāna or generosity p2 22:31
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring the practice of generosity as an antidote to the individual, societal and environmental harm caused by excessive greed and self-interest
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-02-13 talk: Foundations of the Path 1 - Generosity / dāna 30:49
Jill Shepherd
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Beginning the year by refreshing the foundations of our practice, starting with a brief overview of what insight meditation is, then exploring how generosity supports this path to freedom all along the way
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2024-12-05 talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path part 3 27:12
Jill Shepherd
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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
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-11-21 talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path P2 18:55
Jill Shepherd
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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
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-11-14 talk: The role of pleasure and enjoyment on the path to freedom 27:36
Jill Shepherd
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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
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2024

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