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Jill Shepherd's Dharma Talks
at Auckland Insight Meditation
Jill Shepherd
Wisdom and compassion are two themes that inform my current exploration of the dharma, and I aspire to integrate these as fully as I can in both formal practice and daily life.
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2022-02-12
01 meditation: arriving and settling in
2021-05-30
01 meditation: cultivating mudita as a foundation for the day's practice
2020-09-03
01 meditation: impermanence
2020-07-25
01 meditation: intro, mindfulness of breathing
2024-03-31
01 meditation: Settling in, arriving, introduction of Jill
2023-08-12
01 Opening reflections and guided meditation: Establishing awareness of citta
2023-06-25
01 short opening talk and guided meditation establishing the theme of exploring…
2020-07-02
01 talk intro to insight meditation
2020-07-16
01 talk mindfulness of hearing
2020-08-06
01 talk: an overview of the Fourth Establishment of Mindfulness
2020-10-12
01 talk: introduction to mindfulness meditation for beginners
2020-07-30
01 talk: introduction to practising mindfulness of emotions
2021-02-18
01 talk: Living a life of mutual benefit - introduction to the Noble Eightfold …
2020-07-09
01 talk: mindfulness of body
2020-07-23
01 talk: Mindfulness of Mind
2023-02-02
01 talk: overview of the ten pāramī
2022-05-22
01 talk: What is Vesak?
2020-07-02
02 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2020-07-09
02 guided meditaton: mindfulness of the breath then physical sensations
2026-06-04
02 instructions: Mindfulness
2022-02-12
02 instructions: orientation to the retreat
2022-05-22
02 meditation: cultivating gratitude
2021-10-24
02 meditation: mettā for the benefactor or easy being
2020-10-12
02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2020-07-16
02 meditation: mindfulness of sounds
2020-07-30
02 meditation: mindfulness of the mind, including emotions
2020-07-23
02 meditation: mindfulness of thoughts
2020-08-06
02 meditation: noticing the presence or absence of the awakening factors
2020-09-03
02 talk: insight into impermanence
2020-07-25
02 talk: Right Effort and the Middle Way
2021-05-30
02 talk: short introduction to celebrating Vesak
2021-03-04
02 Talk: Wise View and Freedom
2020-07-09
03 guided meditation: standing then walking
2020-07-25
03 instructions: finding balance as a process of listening
2026-06-04
03 meditation: Body scan inviting ease
2024-03-31
03 meditation: Exploring our relationship to unpleasantness or unsatisfactorine…
2022-02-12
03 meditation: orienting to kindness and ease
2020-10-19
03 short talk: mindfulness of the body
2021-05-30
03 talk: Heavenly Messengers
2020-09-10
03 talk: impermanence and dukkha
2022-05-22
03 talk: introduction to the life of the Buddha
2021-03-25
03 talk: Wise Intention and the bliss of renunciation
2023-08-12
04 meditation: continuing attuning to the quality of the heart-mind
2020-09-10
04 meditation: dukkha and release
2023-06-25
04 meditation: exploring feeling-tone in relation to sounds
2020-07-25
04 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
2020-10-19
04 meditation: mindfulness of the body
2021-04-08
04 meditation: simple mindfulness of the body and breathing, with an orientatio…
2026-06-04
04 short instructions: Continuity of mindfulness
2022-05-22
04 talk: awakening mutuality
2021-10-31
04 talk: challenges to mettā practice
2024-03-31
04 talk: Exploring the Wisdom wing in relation to the three universal character…
2020-10-19
05 instructions: relational practice exploring mindfulness of the body
2020-10-08
05 meditation: opening to the spaciousness of the body
2026-06-04
05 short talk: First Noble Truth
2022-05-22
05 talk: facing up to impermanence, endings, loss
2021-05-30
05 talk: spiritual friendship
2020-07-25
05 talk: the role of pleasant experience in formal and informal practice
2021-04-08
05 talk: Wise Intention p2 - metta, kindness
2021-07-04
06 meditation: mindfulness of the body and thinking
2020-10-08
06 talk: an overview of the five clinging-aggregates
2020-10-11
06 talk: Heavenly Messengers 2 - Ageing
2026-06-04
06 talk: Introduction to the Second Noble Truth
2020-10-26
06 talk: mindfulness recap and introduction to mindfulness of hearing
2020-07-25
06 talk: Right Effort and Mudita or appreciative joy
2020-07-25
07 guided meditation: mudita or appreciative joy
2026-06-05
07 instructions: Mindfulness of breathing to develop sati and samādhi
2023-08-12
07 meditation: further development of mettā and muditā as supports for freeing …
2020-10-26
07 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
2023-06-25
07 meditation: opening to pleasant feeling-tones
2020-06-06
07 talk: mindfulness and clear comprehension
2020-10-26
08 instructions and guided walking meditation
2026-06-05
08 meditation: Mindfulness of breathing to develop sati and samādhi
2020-10-18
08 meditation: vedana or feeling-tones
2023-08-12
08 talk: Q&R and closing reflections
2025-06-05
08 talk: Sīla part 6 Mindful listening as a support for Wise Speech
2023-06-25
08: Questions and Reflections
2026-06-05
09 meditation: Mettā and compassion as expressions of Wise Intention
2020-10-18
09 talk: exploring vedana or feeling-tone and compassion in relation to illness
2020-11-02
09 talk: mindfulness of mind
2025-06-12
09 talk: Sīla part 7 Fifth Training Precept
2020-11-02
10 meditation: beginning mindfulness of mind practice
2026-06-06
10 meditation: Choiceless attention
2020-10-25
10 meditation: making space for equanimity to arise
2022-02-13
10 reflections: strengthening steadiness and stability
2020-08-22
10 talk: clinging and release
2025-06-19
10 talk: The brahmavihāra heart practices as support for ethical living
2022-02-13
11 meditation: body, breathing
2020-11-02
11 meditation: kindness
2026-06-06
11 short talk: An overview of Buddhist ethics
2026-06-07
12 meditation: Opening to mudita gladness and upekkha equanimity
2020-11-09
12 talk: mindfulness of mind, including emotions
2020-11-09
13 meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions
2020-06-08
14 instructions: opening up the field of awareness to include hearing
2020-11-07
14 meditation: recognising skilful states
2022-02-14
14 meditation: Well-being
2020-11-16
14 talk: a short introduction to the five hindrances
2020-06-08
15 guided meditation: opening to sounds
2020-11-16
15 meditation: recognising the hindrances of desire for sense pleasure, and ave…
2020-06-08
16 talk: befriending the mind
2020-06-09
17 instructions: mindfulness of the mind
2020-08-23
17 talk: mindfulness of the body and impermanence
2020-06-09
18 guided meditation: practising with thoughts and emotions
2022-02-15
18 reflection and standing meditation
2020-06-09
20 talk: wisdom and compassion
2020-06-09
21 instructions: practising compassion
2020-06-09
22 guided meditation: compassion and self-compassion
2022-02-16
23 instructions: different modes of mindfulness
2020-06-10
23 talk: Seven factors of Awakening
2020-06-11
24 instructions: mudita practice
2022-02-16
24 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
2020-08-24
25 talk: the two wings of Wisdom and Compassion
2020-06-11
25: guided meditation cultivating mudita
2020-08-24
26 meditation: metta as an inquiry practice
2020-06-11
27 guided meditation: equanimity as spaciousness
2022-02-17
27 meditation: compassion
2020-08-25
30 instructions: the four brahmavihara and compassion practice
2020-08-25
31 meditation: compassion practice
2022-02-18
32 meditation: spaciousness
2020-08-26
36 instructions: the clinging aggregates of perception and mental formations
2020-08-26
37 talk: common afflictive thought-patterns and some ways to help them release
2022-06-23
A short talk on developing gratitude as a resource for facing up to the climate…
2025-11-02
An overview of the four Brahmavihāra
2020-03-28
beginning meditation instructions
2019-09-05
Cultivating a generous heart as the foundation of the path
2020-04-02
Equanimity as a resource in challenging times
2020-03-28
guided meditation for beginners
2020-03-26
Guided meditation: orienting to compassion
2023-12-17
Introduction to the theme of the day: attending to the Awakening Factors
2022-10-13
meditation: acceptance of what is
2022-08-19
Meditation: accepting, allowing, opening to how it is right now
2021-04-22
meditation: arriving and steadying
2023-12-17
meditation: Awakening Factor of Equanimity
2023-12-17
meditation: Awakening Factor of Pītī, Joy
2020-12-03
meditation: body then mind and mental activity
2022-03-10
meditation: breathing and resilience
2026-06-18
meditation: Breathing and Thinking
2026-07-02
meditation: Breathing then bringing awareness to thinking
2020-12-17
meditation: breathing, then contemplating the benefits of sangha
2021-05-27
meditation: compassion
2025-07-31
meditation: compassion for a good friend
2025-08-14
meditation: Compassion for oneself
2022-02-28
meditation: cultivating an attitude of welcome
2020-09-10
meditation: exploring dukkha
2020-10-22
meditation: exploring feeling-tone
2026-06-11
meditation: Mettā and compassion
2024-08-29
meditation: Mettā for a good friend
2025-07-10
meditation: Mettā for someone we care about
2022-02-10
meditation: metta infusion
2024-08-01
meditation: Mindfulness of breathing
2021-10-07
meditation: mindfulness of breathing to develop calm and ease
2020-04-09
meditation: mindfulness of breathing, then gratitude at end
2024-08-15
meditation: Mindfulness of feeling-tone
2024-08-08
meditation: Mindfulness of Hearing
2020-11-05
meditation: mindfulness of mental activity
2020-11-19
meditation: mindfulness of mind
2024-08-22
meditation: Mindfulness of mind
2022-04-10
meditation: mindfulness of mindfulness
2021-07-15
meditation: opening to appreciation and gratitude
2025-10-09
meditation: Orienting to equanimity
2025-07-24
meditation: Radiating energy method of mettā practice
2020-04-23
meditation: settling in to calm and steadiness
2025-10-02
meditation: Settling into muditā / gladness
2020-04-30
meditation: slowing, stilling, soothing
2020-04-16
meditation: steadying the body, the heart, the mind
2020-10-11
Monday moring meditation: body, heart and mind coming together
2020-10-28
no excuses: 10 minute mindfulness meditation
2020-10-28
no excuses: 15 minute mindfulness meditation
2020-10-28
no excuses: 5 minute mindfulness meditation
2023-12-17
Q&R session
2024-08-15
short instructions: Exploring feeling tone
2021-04-21
short meditation orienting to mudita, appreciation and gratitude
2024-03-21
short talk: Changing our relationship to dukkha
2026-06-18
short talk: Ethics and Wise Speech
2024-01-18
short talk: Exploring freedom as the goal of our practice
2024-11-07
short talk: Exploring the relationship between dharma and politics
2024-08-15
short talk: Exploring the wheel model of experience
2024-10-31
Short talk: Halloween reflections
2023-06-15
short talk: pāramī of mettā, kindness
2024-08-01
short talk: Refreshing our insight meditation practice
2020-03-26
Short talk: some responses to the coronavirus/karuna-virus situation
2024-04-11
short talk: Tasting freedom
2024-08-08
short talk: the benefits of practising Mindfulness of the Body
2025-07-10
talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra and introduction to mettā practice
2020-04-23
talk: balancing urgency and trust
2026-06-11
talk: Compassion as an aspect of Wise Intention
2025-07-31
talk: Compassion p1
2025-08-14
talk: Compassion p2
2022-05-19
talk: connecting with the more than human world
2024-02-22
talk: Death contemplation, gratitude and muditā practice
2025-10-09
talk: Equanimity as the fourth brahmavihāra
2025-07-24
talk: Exploring some of the obstacles that can get in the way of mettā practice
2024-03-28
talk: Exploring the Second Noble Truth - craving for sense pleasures, craving f…
2025-03-06
talk: Foundations 2 - Dāna or generosity p2
2025-03-13
talk: Foundations 3 Ethical conduct as a form of generosity
2025-02-13
talk: Foundations of the Path 1 - Generosity / dāna
2024-02-01
talk: Freedom and contemplation of death
2024-02-15
talk: Freedom and death contemplation p2
2024-01-25
talk: Freedom and Mindfulness
2020-04-16
talk: hope, hopelessness and equanimity
2020-09-10
talk: impermanence and dukkha
2024-08-22
talk: Introduction to Mindfulness of mind
2026-02-05
talk: Introduction to the Noble Eightfold Path
2022-08-18
Talk: introduction to the theme of taking refuge in Dharma
2024-07-25
talk: Maintaining and deepening the practice
2020-07-26
talk: metta and the brahamvihara as a support for resilience
2023-02-23
talk: pāramī of dāna / generosity
2023-04-13
talk: pāramī of energy
2023-10-19
talk: pāramī of mettā - kindness, good will
2023-04-20
talk: pāramī of patience
2023-03-09
talk: pāramī of renunciation or relinquishment
2023-03-02
talk: pāramī of sīla / ethical conduct
2023-03-16
talk: pāramī of wisdom
2024-11-21
talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path P2
2024-12-05
talk: Pleasure and enjoyment on the path part 3
2025-10-02
talk: Reflections on retreat practice and the cultivation of muditā: gladness a…
2026-01-29
talk: Renewing motivation
2023-09-07
talk: Reviewing all ten pāramī, in conversation with Auckland Insight sangha me…
2022-02-10
talk: Sangha as refuge
2022-06-16
talk: sangha as support for facing in to the climate crisis
2022-03-10
talk: sangha as support for facing the challenges of our time
2020-04-30
talk: seclusion, sangha, samvega (spiritual urgency)
2025-04-03
talk: Sīla part 2 - the ethical training of refraining from taking what is not …
2025-04-10
talk: Sīla part 3 - Exploring the second training precept to abstain from takin…
2025-04-17
talk: Sīla part 4 - Exploring the third precept in relation to desire for intim…
2025-04-24
talk: Sīla part 5 - Exploring the fourth training precept to refrain from false…
2022-10-13
talk: taking refuge in dharma p2 - dukkha and mettā
2022-03-03
talk: Taking Refuge in Sangha p2 - the support of dāna / generosity
2020-01-30
talk: taking refuges and precepts
2020-11-05
talk: the clinging aggregates of perceptions and volitional mental formations
2020-12-03
talk: the clinging-aggregate of consciousness
2020-11-19
talk: the clinging-aggregates of perceptions and mental formations part 2
2023-08-03
talk: the pāramī of equanimity
2023-10-12
talk: the pāramī of patience and resolve
2023-06-01
talk: the pāramī of resolve
2023-05-18
talk: the pāramī of truthfulness
2020-04-09
talk: the relevance of mudita, gratitude or appreciation during difficult times
2024-11-14
talk: The role of pleasure and enjoyment on the path to freedom
2020-10-22
talk: vedana or feeling-tone
2021-05-27
talk: Wise Action
2021-06-03
talk: Wise Action part 2
2021-07-15
talk: Wise Effort p2 - cultivating skilful mind-states
2021-07-01
talk: Wise Effort part 1
2026-03-19
talk: Wise Intention p2 - the intention to cultivate relinquishment / non-addic…
2026-05-28
talk: Wise Intention p3 - Returning
2026-03-12
talk: Wise Intention part1
2021-06-17
talk: Wise Livelihood
2021-07-29
talk: Wise Mindfulness or sati
2021-10-07
talk: Wise Samadhi
2021-05-06
talk: Wise Speech p2
2026-07-02
talk: Wise Speech p2 exploring internal speech and the inner critic
2026-02-12
talk: Wise View
2026-03-05
talk: Wise View and Wise Intention
2026-02-19
talk: Wise View part 2 Exploring self-view
2021-04-22
tallk: Wise Speech and the power of truth
2018-03-08
The Two Wings to Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion
2021-11-18
Wise View p2
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Select one of Jill Shepherd's 23 retreats
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2020-06-06
Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat
2020-07-02
Foundations of Insight
2020-07-25
Balancing Effort and Enjoyment
2020-08-21
Finding the heart of freedom
2020-09-03
Deepening Insight - a series of talks for Auckland Insight
2020-10-04
Cultivating resilience in challenging times: Learning from the "heavenly messen…
2020-10-12
Introduction to Insight Meditation
2021-02-18
Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path
2021-05-30
one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community
2021-06-20
Right View – Wrong View – Self View – No View
What is the point of view in Bud…
2021-10-24
Brahmavihāra workshops
2022-02-10
Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022
2022-02-12
Cultivation and Insight
2022-05-22
2022 Vesak celebration for Auckland Insight
2023-02-02
Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023
2023-06-25
Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone
2023-08-12
Online meditation day: Understanding the citta (heart/mind)
2023-12-17
Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors
2024-01-18
Auckland Insight meetings 2024
2024-03-31
Two Wings of Compassion and Wisdom: a day of online practice
2025-02-13
Auckland Insight meetings 2025
2026-01-29
Auckland Insight Meditation meetings 2026
2026-06-03
Five-day study and practice retreat
