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

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Guided meditation beginning with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Introduction to the Third Foundation of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Mind, and skilful ways of relating to thoughts

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring vedana or feeling-tone as the building block of reactivity, and metta or good will and compassion or harmlessness as aspects of Right Thought

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Brief introduction of Right Concentration and the potential for pleasant feeling-tone (vedana) to support ease

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, then opening to sounds

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) An exploration of different qualities of mindfulness, including the technique of mental noting and more open forms of awareness

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) An overview of Right View and Right Thought (or Right Intention), focusing on renunciation as a way to happiness

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Guided dyad meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone (vedana), beginning with separate speaker and listener (allow 3 minutes for each speaker)

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) A short exploration of the Second Foundation of Mindfulness, vedana or feeling-tone, as the basic recognition of any sense contact as pleasant, unpleasant, or neither pleasant nor unpleasant

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Guided meditation, mostly silent with occasional questions to notice the presence or absence of the five hindrances