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- Jill Shepherd: 12 talk: comparing mind (mana) and appreciative joy (mudita)(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring the common tendency of the mind to get caught in comparing, and how the practice of mudita or appreciative joy can be both an antidote and an ally, that helps stop mana from arising in the first place29 min
- Jill Shepherd: 11 guided meditation: body and heart-mind(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) A short guided meditation attuning to the body and the heart-mind, noticing how we're relating to experience, and inclining in the direction of appreciation and gratitude16 min
- Jill Shepherd: 10 guided meditation: dyad practice, mindfulness of mind(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Working in pairs naming mind-states out loud using just one word; separately for four minutes each, then alternating back and forth22 min
- Jill Shepherd: 09 instructions: mindfulness of mind(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) A short talk offering definitions of different aspects of mental activity, including thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-states9 min
- Jill Shepherd: 08 talk: Second Noble Truth, craving for sense pleasures, compassion(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Returning to the Second Noble Truth, exploring clinging to sense pleasure as a common reaction to unpleasant emotions, and how compassion and self-compassion offer a more skilful way of navigating anxiety27 min
- Jill Shepherd: 07 guided meditation: body, breathing, choiceless awareness(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) A short guided meditation beginning with physical sensations and the breath, opening to choiceless awareness, orienting to kindness and metta15 min
- Jill Shepherd: 06 guided meditation: exploring physical sensations of anxiety and the antidote of metta(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Working in groups of three, each person taking three minutes to name out loud the physical sensations of social anxiety; then a short guided metta meditation before continuing to name out loud the physical sensations associated with metta/kindness32 min
- Jill Shepherd: 05 instructions: the anatomy of anxiety(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Deconstructing the chain reaction from basic sense stimuli to proliferation and anxiety thought-loops10 min
- Jill Shepherd: 04 talk: Fear of Dukkha, and Fear IS Dukkha(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring the courage it takes to meditate and to engage with the Buddha's teachings on the Four Noble Truths, focusing on the First Noble Truth that there is dukkha: suffering, stress, distress, unsatisfactoriness27 min
- Jill Shepherd: 03 meditation: body sitting, breathing(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) A short guided meditation with an emphasis on settling and soothing the body, heart, mind before starting a study class14 min
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Wisdom and compassion are two themes that inform my current exploration of the dharma, and I aspire to integrate these as fully as I can in both formal practice and daily life.