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

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Some suggestions for bringing wisdom to deeply conditioned mental patterns such as "lack" mind and comparing mind

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the skillful qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity.

(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.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An overview of the five hindrances: afflictive states that get in the way of clear seeing

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Continuing working with the three anchors: whole body, breathing, sounds.

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the spirit of generosity, caga, as the foundation from which the whole path of practice develops

(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 qualities

(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 brahmavihara practice of mudita or appreciative joy can support this shift

(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

(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