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Jill Shepherd's Dharma Talks at Southern 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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2022-06-08 11 meditation: mindfulness of mind 30:13
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Beginning by establishing mindfulness of the body and breathing, then opening to sounds and the experience of thinking
Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp) :  Rest, renewal, resilience, release
2022-06-08 10 instructions: mindfulness of mind 11:20
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Introduction to the Third Establishment of Mindfulness, mindfulness of mind
Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp) :  Rest, renewal, resilience, release
2022-06-07 09 talk: Compassion 49:53
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Exploring compassion as support for relating skilfully to dukkha: pain, stress, distress, suffering
Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp) :  Rest, renewal, resilience, release
2022-06-06 05 instructions: feeling tone or vedanā 18:18
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Exploring how feeling-tone conditions reactivity when there's no mindfulness, and how mindfulness gives us a choice about how we respond
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2022-06-06 04 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 29:49
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Bringing a relaxed approach to practising mindfulness of breathing, noticing the subtle energising quality of the in-breath and the relaxing aspect of the out-breath
Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp) :  Rest, renewal, resilience, release
2022-06-06 03 instructions: mindfulness of breathing to strengthen sati and samādhi 19:29
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Exploring mindfulness of breathing with a relaxed and receptive approach, to help strengthen sati / mindfulness and samādhi / stability of mind
Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp) :  Rest, renewal, resilience, release
2022-06-05 02 talk: inner and outer supports for being on retreat 47:02
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Exploring different aspects of the "retreat container" that support the deepening of our meditation practice: the schedule, sangha, safety, silence, solitude, slowing down and stillness
Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp) :  Rest, renewal, resilience, release
2021-01-28 28 talk: Working with afflictive mind-states, including comparing mind 40:29
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2021-01-27 24 talk: an overview of the four brahmavihara heart qualities 47:49
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How kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity reinforce and strengthen each other as a support for deepening insight
Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp) :  Southern Insight Summer Retreat: Finding the Heart of Wisdom
2021-01-25 15 talk: Wise Effort and the middle way 36:48
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Looking at Wise Effort and common ways our effort gets unbalanced; includes a brief overview of the five hindrances that get in the way of insight
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