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Dharma Talks given at Auckland Insight Meditation
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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

2024-11-21 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
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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
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2024-11-07 short talk: Exploring the relationship between dharma and politics 15:05
Jill Shepherd
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How might we respond to the results of the 2024 US election?
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2024-10-31 Short talk: Halloween reflections 16:27
Jill Shepherd
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What haunts you, and what helps you face fear?
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2024-08-29 meditation: Mettā for a good friend 26:50
Jill Shepherd
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2024-08-22 meditation: Mindfulness of mind 16:49
Jill Shepherd
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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)
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2024-08-22 talk: Introduction to Mindfulness of mind 18:47
Jill Shepherd
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2024-08-15 short talk: Exploring the wheel model of experience 10:26
Jill Shepherd
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Based on some teaching by Gil Fronsdal, looking at the role of feeling-tone in driving reactivity, when there's no mindfulness
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2024-08-15 meditation: Mindfulness of feeling-tone 25:09
Jill Shepherd
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Bringing mindfulness to pleasant, neutral then unpleasant feeling-tones in relation to seeing, hearing, and physical sensations
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