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

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Cultivating equanimity at the end of a retreat, and a brief introduction of equanimity in relation to the eight worldly winds

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Not-self or anatta and an overview of the five aggregates subject to clinging

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring equanimity in relation to a difficult or "sticky" person, someone whom we have an agenda for, then in relation to ourselves

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring equanimity in relation to a "difficult" person

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) An overview of the seven factors of awakening and how to work skilfully with more refined states of mind

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Guided meditation appreciation one's own good qualities and good fortune, then those of a good friend

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring the Buddha's instructions to Mahanama to contemplate his own generosity and virtues, as a basis for practising mudita for oneself

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring the brahma vihara practice of mudita, the obstacles that get in the way of it, and suggestions for beginning to develop the quality of joy as a support for insight practice

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning with the instruction to calm the bodily formations, then refining attention on the specific characteristics of each breath

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Maintaining relaxed awareness while bringing more precision to mindfulness of breathing, using the tool of mental noting when helpful