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Dharma Talks given at Auckland Insight Meditation in English
2023-06-25 07 meditation: opening to pleasant feeling-tones 30:16
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 06 meditation: feelings and choice 29:33
Elizabeth Day
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 05 meditation: feeling tone and responses 30:18
Willa Thaniya Reid
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 04 meditation: exploring feeling-tone in relation to sounds 31:30
Jill Shepherd
Exploring feeling-tone in relation to hearing: noticing pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling-tones and releasing any tendency to move into reactivity
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 03 meditation: vedanā or feeling-tone 31:11
Elizabeth Day
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 02 meditation: feeling-tone in relation to embodied experience 30:36
Willa Thaniya Reid
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 01 short opening talk and guided meditation establishing the theme of exploring feeling-tone 32:06
Jill Shepherd, Elizabeth Day, Willa Thaniya Reid
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-15 short talk: pāramī of mettā, kindness 16:00
Jill Shepherd
A short exploration of kindness: how it's supported by our capacity to rest, and is itself a restful quality
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-06-01 talk: the pāramī of resolve 35:23
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the quality of resolve as a resource in three arenas: for strengthening our commitment to regular meditation practice; going on retreat; and facing in to the challenges of the climate crisis
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-05-18 talk: the pāramī of truthfulness 24:30
Jill Shepherd
Exploring truthfulness in relation to speech, and how in some circumstances, the Buddha advocated for speaking "dispraise" of those who are worth of dispraise
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-04-20 talk: pāramī of patience 29:23
Jill Shepherd
Patience is a quality that is undervalued in mainstream society with its emphasis on instant gratification, but in the Buddha's teachings, it's seen as the foremost of all the pāramī. Fortunately, it's something that can be trained in, initially by recognising where we're IMpatient, then making the effort to orient to steadiness and non-resistance.
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-04-13 talk: pāramī of energy 28:47
Jill Shepherd
Exploring how energy needs to be guided by the previous pāramī, wisdom, to make sure that our energy is put to best use. Individually and collectively, we tend to use the resource of our own energy in the same way that we relate to other resources:over-exploiting it, until we’re depleted, exhausted, on the verge of burn-out. A wise relationship to energy includes paying attention to how we renew, refresh and resource ourselves, so that energy is available when we most need it.
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-03-16 talk: pāramī of wisdom 26:35
Jill Shepherd
How wisdom supports all the other pāramī, and how it can be cultivated on different levels, corresponding with the head, heart, and gut
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-03-09 talk: pāramī of renunciation or relinquishment 29:23
Jill Shepherd
How the pāramī of nekhamma or renunciation/relinquishing invites us to explore our relationship to wanting, and how the societal-wide craving for comfort helps fuel the climate crisis
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-03-02 talk: pāramī of sīla / ethical conduct 25:57
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the pāramī of sila or ethical conduct, looking at some of the main differences between Buddhist ethics and mainstream Western ethics
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-02-23 talk: pāramī of dāna / generosity 30:41
Jill Shepherd
Exploring generosity as a spiritual practice by bringing more refined awareness to how we give, and the benefits that come from the reciprocal flow of giving and receiving
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-02-02 01 talk: overview of the ten pāramī 29:22
Jill Shepherd
An introduction to the ten pāramī, skilful qualities of heart and mind that help us to navigate life's challenges, and ways to cultivate these in daily life
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2022-10-13 talk: taking refuge in dharma p2 - dukkha and mettā 28:23
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the relationship between dukkha (unsatisfactoriness, stress, distress, suffering) as the First Noble Truth, and mettā (kindness, good will, benevolence) as the first of the four brahmavihāra
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-10-13 meditation: acceptance of what is 30:22
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with mindfulness of the body and breathing, then making space for whatever experiences arise, orienting to acceptance and letting go of trying to control the process in any way
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-08-19 Meditation: accepting, allowing, opening to how it is right now 27:00
Jill Shepherd
Settling in and making space for whatever our experience is in this moment, meeting it with acceptance and kindness
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-08-18 Talk: introduction to the theme of taking refuge in Dharma 28:51
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of what it means to take refuge generally, and then specifically in relation to dharma, with a brief introduction to the Four Noble Truths and the Four Brahamavihāra of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-06-23 A short talk on developing gratitude as a resource for facing up to the climate crisis 11:34
Jill Shepherd
Developing gratitude as a resource that strengthens our capaity to turn towards challenges, based on the Active Hope training by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-06-16 talk: sangha as support for facing in to the climate crisis 18:43
Jill Shepherd
With sangha as support, turning towards the reality of the climate crisis using the Active Hope process created by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-05-22 05 talk: facing up to impermanence, endings, loss 15:27
Jill Shepherd
Following a reading on the passing of the Buddha, reflecting on the truth of impermanence and how none of us are immune to it; moving into a ritual to acknowledge recent losses, and strengthen inner qualities to be able to navigate change with more ease
Auckland Insight Meditation 2022 Vesak celebration for Auckland Insight

2022-05-22 04 talk: awakening mutuality 16:09
Jill Shepherd
Exploring what Awakening or Nibbāna means, then exploring some words by Thomas Hubl to explore how sangha or community can develop mindfulness, mutuality and mirroring as a support for insight
Auckland Insight Meditation 2022 Vesak celebration for Auckland Insight

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