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Jill Shepherd's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Jill Shepherd
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.
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2025-11-02 Instructions and guided meditation: Choiceless attention 53:24
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2
2025-10-28 Talk: Right Effort part 1 38:50
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2
2025-10-28 Instructions: practising with thinking 1:19:50
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2
2025-10-25 Instructions and guided meditation: Body as anchor 52:33
Establishing a felt sense of the body as anchor; orienting to ease and calm in knowing the body sitting, breathing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2
2023-12-03 Celebrating the Parami 52:36
A view of the ten Parami and how they've been cultivated during this retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-11-26 Effortless effort 47:13
Exploring refined effort at this stage of the retreat, include some ways to practice with Anatta, how self constructing creates stress
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-11-26 Morning reflection 58:43
Check in with body, heart in mind, notice the attitude to experience
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-11-21 Brahmavihara Practice: Mudita 43:34
Some short reflections on Muditā, then a guided meditation cultivating appreciative joy for oneself and an "easy being"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-11-19 Working with anxiety and other afflictive states 44:50
Some suggestions for navigating difficult mental states
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-11-12 Exploring Vedana 53:10
Looking at the role of Vedanā in fueling reactivity, and ways to relate more skillfully to it; includes an exploration of worldly and UNworldly feeling-tones
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

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