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Retreat Dharma Talks at Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

Seven-day insight meditation retreat

Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2017-02-19 (8 days) Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

  
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2017-02-21 11 instructions: Second Foundation of Mindfulness - vedana or feeling-tone 10:17
Jill Shepherd
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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
2017-02-21 12 guided dyad (pairs) meditation: pleasant and unpleasant feeling-tone (vedana) 8:15
Jill Shepherd
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Guided dyad meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone (vedana), beginning with separate speaker and listener (allow 3 minutes for each speaker)
2017-02-21 13 talk: Right View and Right Thought 43:31
Jill Shepherd
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An overview of Right View and Right Thought (or Right Intention), focusing on renunciation as a way to happiness
2017-02-22 14 instructions: different qualities of mindfulness 14:21
Jill Shepherd
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An exploration of different qualities of mindfulness, including the technique of mental noting and more open forms of awareness
2017-02-22 15 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, sounds 25:41
Jill Shepherd
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Guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, then opening to sounds
2017-02-22 16 instructions: concentration and feeling-tone (vedana) part 2 16:35
Jill Shepherd
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Brief introduction of Right Concentration and the potential for pleasant feeling-tone (vedana) to support ease
2017-02-22 17 talk: Vedana, Right Thought, Metta and Compassion 41:09
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring vedana or feeling-tone as the building block of reactivity, and metta or good will and compassion or harmlessness as aspects of Right Thought
2017-02-23 18 instructions: Mindfulness of Mind 16:15
Jill Shepherd
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Introduction to the Third Foundation of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Mind, and skilful ways of relating to thoughts
2017-02-23 19 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 24:44
Jill Shepherd
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Guided meditation beginning with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions
2017-02-23 20 instructions: metta practice 11:45
Jill Shepherd
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An overview of metta practice, with instructions for working with the category of benefactor
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