Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJill Shepherd: Right effort
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring ways that effort can become unbalanced, some antidotes, and the Buddhas four-part definition of right effort in the noble eightfold path.
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Jill Shepherd: Mindfulness Of Cetana/Intention
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the "about to" moment of intention that occurs before every action of body, speech, and mind.
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Jill Shepherd: An overview of the four Bramhavihara.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How the four skillful qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity work together to support balanced practice
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Jill Shepherd: An overview of the four Brahmavihāra heart qualities
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How the four skillful qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity work together to support balanced practice
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Jill Shepherd: Instructions: mindfulness of breathing part one
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Beginning with the usual anchors, then exploring physical sensations of breathing, then the whole body, using mental noting
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Jill Shepherd: Intro To Brahmavihara Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A short explanation of how Brahmavihara practice supports insight and vice versa and then a guided meditation easing into cultivating kindness.
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Jill Shepherd: talk: taking refuge in dharma p2 - dukkha and mettā
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the relationship between dukkha (unsatisfactoriness, stress, distress, suffering) as the First Noble Truth, and mettā (kindness, good will, benevolence) as the…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Jill Shepherd: meditation: acceptance of what is
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with mindfulness of the body and breathing, then making space for whatever experiences arise, orienting to acceptance and letting go of trying to control the p…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 35 meditation: equanimity
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Experiences being known, moment to moment, with no I, me, my or mine
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 34 instructions: equanimity
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Orienting to impermanence and not-self as supports for strengthening equanimity as we come to the end of the retreat
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago