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Dharma Talks given at Auckland Insight Meditation
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2024-01-18 short talk: Exploring freedom as the goal of our practice 23:01
Jill Shepherd
A short talk introducing a new theme for the start of the new year The Way to Freedom: what hinders, and what helps Each week we'll be looking at some of the common obstacles that cause stress, distress and suffering in our lives, and what we can do to support experiencing more ease, happiness and peace, instead Focusing on what freedom means to each of us with a written contemplation, then looking briefly at the three core afflictive energies of greed or compulsion, hatred or aversion,, and ignorance or delusion
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2023-12-17 Q&R session 26:11
Jill Shepherd, Elizabeth Day, Willa Thaniya Reid
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors

2023-12-17 meditation: Awakening Factor of Equanimity 33:36
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors

2023-12-17 meditation: awakening factor of Samādhi 30:12
Elizabeth Day
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors

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
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors

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
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors

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

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