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Jean Esther's Dharma Talks at True North Insight
Jean Esther
Jean Esther, MSW has been practicing meditation since 1975 and teaching in the dharma since the early 90’s. She is one of the Guiding Teachers at True North Insight in Canada and teaches locally in the Northeastern US. Trained in Jungian transpersonal psychology and Somatic Experiencing she has been a practicing psychotherapist in Western MA since 1981 with a specialization in the healing of trauma. Her passion is attuning to and supporting the liberating intersection of body, mind and heart and helping others of all ages do the same.
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2024-05-04 Morning Instructions: Identifying feeling tones as doorways of release 17:28
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Identifying pleasant/unpleasant/neutral vedanā and their relationship to the five hindrances.
True North Insight :  Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2024-05-03 The five hindrances: doorways to waking up 48:58
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Identifying the five hindrances as the object of our meditation can loosen the grip of self identification with these often unpleasant mental states.
True North Insight :  Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2024-05-03 Guided loving kindness practice for self and/or benefactor 24:58
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True North Insight :  Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2024-05-03 Eating Meditation 4:02
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First day of retreat - brief eating meditation instructions
True North Insight :  Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
2022-02-13 Morning Instructions: Meeting our Emotions with Wisdom 39:33
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These guided instructions within formal meditation practice are also applicable in meeting our emotions in our everyday lives.
True North Insight :  Meeting Our Emotional Life with a Dharma Heart
2022-02-12 Compassion: An Organic Response to Wise Understanding 60:53
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As we discover the 3 characteristics of life in our meditation practice, we begin to recognize their truth in all aspects of life beyond our mediation practice. Through this clear understanding, compassion for self and others emerges organically. The cultivation of compassion practice directed towards our own or others suffering can also strengthen this quality in our minds and hearts. This talk includes some guided practice.
True North Insight :  Meeting Our Emotional Life with a Dharma Heart
2022-02-12 Morning Instructions: Rooting in Embodiment: 61:02
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Guided instruction in bringing one’s attention to body, breath and sound as foundational for meditation practice.
True North Insight :  Meeting Our Emotional Life with a Dharma Heart
2021-02-27 Guided Compassion/Lovingkindness Meditation 55:45
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True North Insight :  Navigating Uncertain Times with a Dharma Heart
2019-04-13 Guided compassion practice 31:32
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True North Insight :  Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha
2019-04-13 Suffering is Relational 49:02
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True North Insight :  Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha

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