Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJill Shepherd: Morning Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Review of the meditation instructions so far, moving from the anchor and opening to whatever aspect of experience is predominant.
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Jill Shepherd: Five Hindrances
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An overview of the five hindrances: afflictive states that get in the way of clear seeing
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Jill Shepherd: Morning Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Continuing working with the three anchors: whole body, breathing, sounds.
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Jill Shepherd: Cultivating a generous heart as the foundation of the path
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the spirit of generosity, caga, as the foundation from which the whole path of practice develops
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 27 talk: Seven Factors of Awakening
(Te Moata Retreat Center) An overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening, and how to navigate some of the challenges that can be experienced when we first start to experience these more skilful mental…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 22 talk: sukha and mudita - appreciative joy
(Te Moata Retreat Center) An exploration of how the overall development of the practice is from dukkha (unsatisfactoriness, stress, distress) to sukha (ease, happiness and contentment) and how the br…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 17 talk: impermanence and death
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Exploring the universal characteristic of anicca-impermanence in terms of the body, and beginning to contemplate our own mortality as a way to gradually release fear of death
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 16 talk: Five Hindrances part 2 - aversion, and the antidote of compassion
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Continuing the exploration of the five hindrances, focusing on ill will or aversion, and how cultivating compassion is both a protection and an antidote to aversion arising
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 11 talk: the five hindrances, with a focus on desire for sense pleasures
(Te Moata Retreat Center) An overview of what gets in the way of freedom, namely the five hindrances, with a focus on the first one, desire for sense pleasures
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 07 talk: Befriending the Mind
(Te Moata Retreat Center) An exploration of ways that we commonly struggle with our mental activity, how wisdom and compassion can help release the struggle through practising with the Third Establis…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago