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Back to SearchJill Shepherd: 10 instructions: mindfulness of mind
(Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp)) Introduction to the Third Establishment of Mindfulness, mindfulness of mind
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 09 talk: Compassion
(Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp)) Exploring compassion as support for relating skilfully to dukkha: pain, stress, distress, suffering
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 05 instructions: feeling tone or vedanā
(Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp)) Exploring how feeling-tone conditions reactivity when there's no mindfulness, and how mindfulness gives us a choice about how we respond
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 04 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
(Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp)) Bringing a relaxed approach to practising mindfulness of breathing, noticing the subtle energising quality of the in-breath and the relaxing aspect of th…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 03 instructions: mindfulness of breathing to strengthen sati and samādhi
(Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp)) Exploring mindfulness of breathing with a relaxed and receptive approach, to help strengthen sati / mindfulness and samādhi / stability of mind
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 02 talk: inner and outer supports for being on retreat
(Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp)) Exploring different aspects of the "retreat container" that support the deepening of our meditation practice: the schedule, sangha, safety, silence, soli…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 05 talk: facing up to impermanence, endings, loss
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Following a reading on the passing of the Buddha, reflecting on the truth of impermanence and how none of us are immune to it; moving into a ritual to acknowledge recent…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 04 talk: awakening mutuality
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring what Awakening or Nibbāna means, then exploring some words by Thomas Hubl to explore how sangha or community can develop mindfulness, mutuality and mirroring a…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 03 talk: introduction to the life of the Buddha
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Finding points of commonality in our own lives with the life of the Buddha, then moving into relational practice exploring what motivated us to step out of the "palace …
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 02 meditation: cultivating gratitude
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Orienting the heart-mind towards gratitude as a support for muditā, appreciative joy
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago