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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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2025-10-25 Instructions and guided meditation: Body as anchor 52:33
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Establishing a felt sense of the body as anchor; orienting to ease and calm in knowing the body sitting, breathing
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2023-12-03 Celebrating the Parami 52:36
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A view of the ten Parami and how they've been cultivated during this retreat
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2023-11-26 Effortless effort 47:13
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Exploring refined effort at this stage of the retreat, include some ways to practice with Anatta, how self constructing creates stress
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2023-11-26 Morning reflection 58:43
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Check in with body, heart in mind, notice the attitude to experience
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2023-11-21 Brahmavihara Practice: Mudita 43:34
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Some short reflections on Muditā, then a guided meditation cultivating appreciative joy for oneself and an "easy being"
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2023-11-19 Working with anxiety and other afflictive states 44:50
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Some suggestions for navigating difficult mental states
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2023-11-12 Exploring Vedana 53:10
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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
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2023-11-09 Morning reflection 63:43
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How to decide which practice method to use and when
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2023-11-03 Reflections on clinging 57:47
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Brief exploration of clinging, and how to help it to release
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2023-10-31 Brahmavihara practice: Metta for benefactor and good friend 46:14
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Establishing some well-being in the body then cultivating metta for the benefactor or easy being, then a good friend
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