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Dharma Talks given at Australian Insight Meditation Network
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2024-10-10 Visible and Invisible Roots 28:57
Victor von der Heyde
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At times our world feels fresh and beautiful, other times when we take in some of what's happening in the wider world (genocide on our watch, climate breakdown, a fraying of the global rules based order) the outlook appears bleak. The talk touches on the frameworks of collective numbness, moral deterioration and moral injury. It explores helpful ways might we see our actions when the outlook appears bleak.
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  An Introduction to Imaginal Practice / Soul-making Dharma

2024-01-13 10 meditation: cultivating the heart energy of mettā or kindness 22:31
Jill Shepherd
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A short meditation to develop mettā, beginning by establishing well-being in the body then attuning to the energy of kindness at the heart-centre
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 09 instructions: cultivating skilful mind-states such as mettā or kindness 6:26
Jill Shepherd
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Short instructions for developing mettā or kindness as a skilful mental quality
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 08 instructions: proliferation 8:01
Jill Shepherd
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Short instructions for working with mental proliferation or papanca, seeing the chain reactions that cause it and coming back to the immediacy of sense-based experience to re-ground awareness
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 07 meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 25:19
Jill Shepherd
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Steadying awareness on the experience of breathing, then opening to sounds, thoughts and emotions coming and going
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 06 instructions: mindfulness of mind 13:12
Jill Shepherd
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Instructions for paying attention to the mind and mental activity, knowing thoughts and emotions without taking them personally and identifying with them
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 05 meditation: mindfulness of hearing and physical sensations 24:28
Jill Shepherd
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Steadying awareness on the experience of breathing, then opening to hearing and physical sensations through the whole body
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 04 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness itself 14:22
Jill Shepherd
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Exploring different qualities of mindfulness, opening up from the "anchor" of the breath to bring awareness to sounds and physical sensations
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 03 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 26:52
Jill Shepherd
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Establishing mindfulness of the body sitting, then bringing awareness to the rhythm of breathing and the subtle energetic effects of inhaling and exhaling
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 02 instructions: mindfulness of the body 6:47
Jill Shepherd
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A short introduction to mindfulness of the body, including posture instructions
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

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