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Dharma Talks given at Auckland Insight Meditation
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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
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors

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
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors

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
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors

2023-10-19 talk: pāramī of mettā - kindness, good will 20:29
Jill Shepherd
Exploring what supports kindness and what gets in the way, focusing on self-view and clinging to being right; includes a short guided meditation on "practicing being wrong"
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-10-12 talk: the pāramī of patience and resolve 27:50
Jill Shepherd
Some reflections on how the pāramī of patience and resolve provide crucial support for both regular meditation practice and retreat practice. Includes an exploration of the need to honour natural rhythms, and how metaphorically "lying fallow" allows deeper healing and wisdom to emerge
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-09-07 talk: Reviewing all ten pāramī, in conversation with Auckland Insight sangha members 46:31
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-08-12 08 talk: Q&R and closing reflections 25:55
Jill Shepherd, Elizabeth Day, Willa Thaniya Reid
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Understanding the citta (heart/mind)

2023-08-12 07 meditation: further development of mettā and muditā as supports for freeing the citta 31:59
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Understanding the citta (heart/mind)

2023-08-12 06 meditation: establishing the brahmavihāra qualities of mettā and muditā, kindness and appreciation/gratitude 30:09
Elizabeth Day
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Understanding the citta (heart/mind)

2023-08-12 05 meditation: establishing skillful qualities in the heart/mind 31:30
Willa Thaniya Reid
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Understanding the citta (heart/mind)

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