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.
Intro talk giving an overview of fear in the context of the Buddha's teachings, and touching in to how befriending fear benefits not only ourselves, but the communities and wider society we live in
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 6: Non-grasping as the connection between anatta and Nibbana
More info here: https://jill0shepherd-insightmeditation.com/2018-05-six-week-study-course-exploring-anatta/
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 5: short guided meditation cultivating compassion for oneself and others
More info here: https://jill0shepherd-insightmeditation.com/2018-05-six-week-study-course-exploring-anatta/
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 5: A recap of how the five aggregates combine to form self, and how mindfulness and compassion can help reduce clinging to that self
More info here: https://jill0shepherd-insightmeditation.com/2018-05-six-week-study-course-exploring-anatta/
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 4: An overview of the aggregates of perception, mental formations, and consciousness, plus a brief introduction to the Insight Dialogue guideline of Attune to Emergence
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 3: Investigating the three qualities of feeling-tone / vedana, how they can condition the three afflictive energies of greed, hatred and delusion, and how these can form into the three personality types
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: guided dyad (pairs) practice, exploring physical sensations in the body (three minutes each), then an example of a time when you became aware of the body's impermanent, unreliable and not-self nature
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: Dukkha as the second of the three universal characteristics; its relationship to the five "clinging-aggregates" and ways that we commonly cling to or identify with the body
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: A 15 minute guided meditation focus on mindfulness of the body and physical sensations
