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Jill Shepherd's Dharma Talks at Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre
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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2017-02-21 12 guided dyad (pairs) meditation: pleasant and unpleasant feeling-tone (vedana) 8:15
Guided dyad meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone (vedana), beginning with separate speaker and listener (allow 3 minutes for each speaker)
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-21 11 instructions: Second Foundation of Mindfulness - vedana or feeling-tone 10:17
A short exploration of the Second Foundation of Mindfulness, vedana or feeling-tone, as the basic recognition of any sense contact as pleasant, unpleasant, or neither pleasant nor unpleasant
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-21 10 guided meditation: five hindrances 26:34
Guided meditation, mostly silent with occasional questions to notice the presence or absence of the five hindrances
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-21 09 instructions: five hindrances 19:34
A brief overview of the five hindrances, mental states that obscure clear seeing
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-20 08 talk: developing wisdom, the Four Noble Truths and an overview of the Noble Eightfold Path 50:56
How wisdom can be cultivated as an understanding of the Four Noble Truths, with an overview of the Noble Eightfold Path
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-20 07 instructions: vedana or feeling-tone 10:35
Refining the First Foundation of Mindfulness, mindfulness of the body, in terms of physical sensations
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-20 06 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing for calm and insight 25:23
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-20 05 instructions: mindfulness of breathing for calm and insight 16:51
An overview and various definitions of mindfulness, then instructions for practising mindfulness of breathing in two different styles: for calm and insight
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-19 03 instructions: mindfulness of breathing 9:09
Instructions for mindfulness of breathing practice, emphasising tranquility
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2017-02-19 04 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing 15:35
Short guided meditation practising mindfulness of breathing, with an emphasis on calm and ease
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

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