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Dharma Talks given at Auckland Insight Meditation
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2020-06-08 16 talk: befriending the mind 43:27
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
Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-08 15 guided meditation: opening to sounds 28:49
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
Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-08 14 instructions: opening up the field of awareness to include hearing 11:48
Jill Shepherd
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Incorporating sounds into mindfulness practice
Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-06 07 talk: mindfulness and clear comprehension 24:08
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
Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-04-30 talk: seclusion, sangha, samvega (spiritual urgency) 17:16
Jill Shepherd
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A short talk exploring how taking refuge in sangha even while we're in seclusion, can strengthen samvega or spiritual urgency. Closes with an invitation to explore in small groups, what's been learned in response to the Covid-19 situation and how it might deepen our dharma practice.

2020-04-30 meditation: slowing, stilling, soothing 28:01
Jill Shepherd
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Orienting to the body and the breath to slow down, steady and soothe the heart-mind

2020-04-23 talk: balancing urgency and trust 25:08
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring the balancing qualities of samvega, spiritual urgency with pasada, quiet confidence or trust, as support for our capacity to look more fully at the truth of impermanence. Ends with an invitation to briefly contemplate our own mortality.

2020-04-23 meditation: settling in to calm and steadiness 28:45
Jill Shepherd
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A short guided meditation orienting the body and heart-mind towards stillness, calm, and ease

2020-04-16 talk: hope, hopelessness and equanimity 26:29
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring ways to open more fully to the truth of impermanence and death, then looking at equanimity as an antidote to any tendency to swing between hope and hopelessness

2020-04-16 meditation: steadying the body, the heart, the mind 28:36
Jill Shepherd
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Beginning by steadying and stabilising the body and heart-mind, then noticing our relationship to present-moment experience, opening to the simplicity of here ... now ... this ...

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