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Janine Schipper's Dharma Talks at Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community
Janine Schipper
I was introduced to Vipassana meditation in 1990 when I took an undergraduate class on the “Social Psychology of Consciousness.” I meditated on my own until 2003 when I began sitting with the Flagstaff Vipassana Sangha and attending retreats. As a professor of sociology at Northern Arizona University I integrate contemplative practices into my teaching and writing. I have written about Buddhist Sociology as well as about how contemplative practices may help us address environmental crises. More recently I have had the opportunity to facilitate “mindfulness circles” and offer workshops on “Mindfulness for Social Activists.” I live with 4 wild beings (my husband and 3 children) and find their presence a continual reminder to breath and experience the aliveness of the present moment.
2022-12-05 When Practice Evades Us 27:32
What happens to our practice when we are overwhelmed? In this talk, Janine shares her own personal challenges with sustaining practice during challenging times. She explores how following a middle way, even with practice, may help us meet each moment exactly as it is. Janine also shares how Buddhist teachings on the five hinderances and their antidotes can help us when we’re having trouble meditating and seeing clearly.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-11-07 Deepening Silence 27:27
Anyone who has sat in silence for even a few minutes can observe the noisy inner world of thoughts, emotions and sensations that course through our minds and bodies. When we look carefully, stopping talking does not mean that we are silent. Yet, it is a first step. External silence is a portal into deep inner silence. This talk explores the possibilities for awakening when we take a deep dive into silence.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-10-10 The What If Game 30:24
The What If Game is a playful way of working with your intentions around practice or shifting perspective around an area of practice in which you feel stuck. This approach arose for Janine after years of being frustrated with an aspect of her practice. Listen in and learn how to play the What If Game!
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-08-15 Not Turning Pain Into Suffering 38:33
In this talk, Janine explores ways in which pain often leads to suffering. She offers three antidotes for not creating suffering out of our pain including: acceptance, being present with pain, and changing our relationship with pain. The talk ends with a guided meditation that helps practitioners consider ways physical and/or emotional pain turns into suffering and how we may experience pain without suffering.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-07-04 Dharma of COVID - Part II 29:10
Janine applies Buddhist principles and practices to reflect on COVID while she personally navigates the illness. In Part II of this two-part series, Janine explores the themes of introspection and patience when experiencing illness.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-06-27 Dharma of COVID - Part 1 31:57
Janine applies Buddhist principles and practices to reflect on COVID while she personally navigates the illness. In Part I of this two-part series, Janine explores possibilities for interrupting habitual fear-based patterns with mindfulness practices and working directly with the moment to moment experience of illness.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-03-28 A Deep Let Go 16:17
This talk explores what may happen when we don’t force anything and deeply let go into the present moment.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-02-14 The Power of Metta 42:16
In honor of Valentine’s Day, this talk explores the Buddhist conception of Love and the power of practicing Metta, loving-kindness meditation.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2021-05-30 Letting Go and Leaning In 25:08
In this talk, Janine reflects on the power of letting go in meditation practice and the “technologies of letting go” through leaning in.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2021-05-29 Finding Refuge in the Unknown 38:28
When we're stressed or overwhelmed, we often move towards the comfort of the known, that which we feel we can count on or control. Yet at the heart of the Buddha's teachings is a recognition that our attempts to grasp onto anything, including the known, bring suffering. In this talk, Janine explores how finding refuge in the uncertain and unknown opens us up to new possibilities for freedom and peace.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

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