Jill Shepherd's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Continuing to explore the three universal characteristics, looking at the relationship between impermanence and unsatisfactoriness, dukkha, and how wisdom and compassion can help release clinging / resistance to dukkha

(Auckland Insight Meditation) An overview of the three universal characteristics of experience, focussing on anicca or impermanence, change, instability

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring impermanence through the breath and physical sensations

(Sydney Insight Meditators) Expanding the traditional understanding of Right Livelihood to include all aspects of how we live, including what we produce and what we consume

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Learning how to recognise common afflictive thought patterns such as "lack" mind and comparing mind, and using wisdom and compassion to help them release

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the role that perception and volitional mental formations play in constructing identity, and can easily lead to proliferation when there's no mindfulness

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with compassion for a friend who's suffering, then oneself

(Auckland Insight Meditation) An overview of the four brahmavihara, and an introduction to compassion practice

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring metta as an inquiry practice, noticing the effects on the body, the heart and the mind as kindness is fully received

(Auckland Insight Meditation) How insight and the brahmavihara practices of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity mutually support and reinforce each other; includes an exploration of metta as an inquiry practice