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Dharma Talks given at Auckland Insight Meditation
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2022-02-15 17 talk: Confidence 45:53
Gil Fronsdal
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Exploring the third of the three conditions that support insight: confidence, or dharma confidence
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2022-02-15 16 instructions: mindfulness of the body 9:39
Gil Fronsdal
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Exploring how body sensations can be an early warning system that reactivity is taking over; and the benefits of bringing mind and body into harmony with each other
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2022-02-15 15 meditation: mindfulness of the body 46:38
Gil Fronsdal
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Progressing from mindfulness of breathing to mindfulness of the body, bringing awareness to physical sensations
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2022-02-14 14 meditation: Well-being 15:39
Jill Shepherd
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Beginning by orienting to appreciation as a support for settling the body, heart and mind into well-being (note: due to a technical glitch, the recording stopped after the first set of instructions and the ending instructions weren't included)
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2022-02-14 13 talk: Well-being 48:42
Gil Fronsdal
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The importance of cultivating dharma joy or well-being, which includes qualities such as ease, warmth, happpiness, contentment, gladness, delight, bliss, as supports for the path to freedom
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2022-02-14 12 instructions and meditation: mindfulness of breathing 57:08
Gil Fronsdal
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Bringing awareness to how we're paying attention, allowing it to be relaxed and easy as we steady our mindfulness on the experience of breathing
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2022-02-13 11 meditation: body, breathing 30:07
Jill Shepherd
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Establishing awareness of the body sitting, then experience of breathing, attuning to the rhythm of receiving and releasing, and gently letting go of involvement in thinking
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2022-02-13 10 reflections: strengthening steadiness and stability 12:10
Jill Shepherd
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Short reflections on the preliminary processes of this retreat: orienting to steadiness and stability, and noticing what gets in the way; sensitising ourselves to the stress of self-referencing thought-patterns, and to the ease that becomes available when they're released.
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2022-02-13 09 talk: Cultivating Stability 45:42
Gil Fronsdal
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Cultivating stability as one of the beneficial conditions htat supports insight to arise
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2022-02-12 03 meditation: orienting to kindness and ease 14:56
Jill Shepherd
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Beginning by establishing a kind relationship to technology, then people on the screen, then settling into the body and orienting to ease
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