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

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) A short exploration of mindfulness (sati) in the context of insight meditation, and how it is supported by clear comprehension (sampajanno) and stability of mind or non-distractability (samadhi)

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) A fifteen minute guided compassion meditation, offering compassion for all human beings and all other living beings affected by the current bushfire crisis in Australia

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring clinging and release with a focus on the clinging-aggregates of perception and volitional formations.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring clinging and release with a focus on vedana: knowing worldly and unworldly pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling-tones, and understanding why the Buddha placed so much importance on the experience of unworldly feeling-tone as a support for the deepening of dharma practice

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring clinging and release with a focus on the body, using three practices from the Satipatthana Sutta as support for developing a wiser relationship to the body: contemplating the body in terms of its anatomical parts; its elemental qualities; and as a corpse in decay

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Cultivating a wiser relationship to the body through an understanding of the First Noble Truth, focusing on some of the ways we cling to our bodies

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Orienting to six qualities that support us to enter more fully into practicing at the Forest Refuge: safety, silence, solitude, simplicity, slowing down, and stillness

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of common ways that effort gets unbalanced, and some suggestions for how to bring it back into balance

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of equanimity as support for - and a fruit of - insight practice

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of compassion and self-compassion as Brahmavihara practices, and some suggestions for applying compassion as an antidote to painful mental states