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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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2022-10-27 Intro To Brahmavihara Practice 44:09
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A short explanation of how Brahmavihara practice supports insight and vice versa and then a guided meditation easing into cultivating kindness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2020-02-18 Instructions and guided meditation cultivating equanimity 39:17
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Using the "reciting phrases" method of practice to develop equanimity for a difficult or so-called "sticky" person, someone who we would like to be different in some way, or someone we wish our relationship with them was different in some way
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Strengthening the Heart: Lovingkindness Retreat
2020-02-17 Instructions and guided meditation cultivating mudita 44:18
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Using the "reciting phrases" method of practice to develop mudita for a good friend whose life is currently going well
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Strengthening the Heart: Lovingkindness Retreat
2020-02-16 Instructions and guided meditation using the “radiating energy“ method of metta practice 45:05
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Cultivating the embodied energy of warmth and kindness, radiating it in different directions then all directions simultaneously to “encompass the entire world”
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Strengthening the Heart: Lovingkindness Retreat
2020-02-15 Overview of the Four Brahmavihara qualities 44:21
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Exploring how kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity work together to heal afflicted mind-states
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Strengthening the Heart: Lovingkindness Retreat
2020-02-15 Instructions and guided meditation practicing mindfulness of breathing 32:35
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Settling into retreat by beginning with mindfulness of breathing, to steady the awareness before we move into Metta practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Strengthening the Heart: Lovingkindness Retreat
2019-10-20 Right Effort and the Middle Way 52:33
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An exploration of common ways that effort gets unbalanced, and some suggestions for how to bring it back into balance
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2019-10-13 Equanimity 56:20
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An exploration of equanimity as support for - and a fruit of - insight practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2019-10-06 Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 2: Compassion 57:09
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An exploration of compassion and self-compassion as Brahmavihara practices, and some suggestions for applying compassion as an antidote to painful mental states
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2019-09-29 Working With Afflictive Thought Patterns 1: Wisdom as antidote 52:36
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Some suggestions for bringing wisdom to deeply conditioned mental patterns such as "lack" mind and comparing mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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