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Back to SearchJill Shepherd: 25 guided meditation: metta for the benefactor
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Guided meditation practising metta for the benefactor, using the reciting phrases method
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 24 instructions: metta
(Te Moata Retreat Center) How physical and mental seclusion supports samadhi, stability of mind or concentration, and how the reciting phrases method of metta practice also helps strengthen samadhi
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 23 talk: the hindrance of aversion and the brahmavihara practices as antidotes
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Ways of working with the hindrance of ill will or aversion, including an overview of the four brahmavihara practices of kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity as antidotes…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 20 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Beginning with mindfulness of breathing, then including physical sensations, sounds, thoughts and emotions, knowing their impermanent nature, then opening up to choiceless a…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 19 instructions: mindfulness of the mind
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Ways to practice mindfulness of thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-states
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 17 guided dyad meditation: feeling-tone
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Guided dyad (pairs) meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone
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Jill Shepherd: 16 instructions: feeling tone or vedana
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Exploring vedana or feeling-tone as the Second Establishment of Mindfulness
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 15 guided meditation: contemplating the body in terms of four elements or qualities
(Te Moata Retreat Center) A short guided meditation exploring the qualities of earth, water, fire and air or wind within the body, and also externally
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 14 instructions: contemplating the body in terms of four elements or qualities
(Te Moata Retreat Center) An introduction to mindfulness of the body in terms of the four qualities of earth, water, fire, and air or wind, as a way of gaining insight into the body's impermanence an…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Jill Shepherd: 13 talk: sukha, happiness
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Exploring the role of sukha, happiness, in the Buddha's teachings, and how the silence, solitude, simplicity, slowing down and stillness of being on retreat support the deve…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago