Be Here Now Network Guest Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Spirituality
Exploring mental constructs, Gil Fronsdal describes how we construct the relationships to our experiences.
This recording from the Insight Meditation Center was originally published on Dharmaseed.org
On this episode of the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal talks about these topics:
About Gil Fronsdal:
Gil Fronsdal is the co-teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he is part of its Teachers Council. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He currently serves on the SF Zen Center Elders’ Council. In 2011 he founded IMC’s Insight Retreat Center. Gil has an undergraduate degree in agriculture from U.C. Davis where he was active in promoting the field of sustainable farming. In 1998 he received a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University studying the earliest developments of the bodhisattva ideal. He is the author of The Issue at Hand, essays on mindfulness practice; A Monastery Within; a book on the five hindrances called Unhindered; and the translator of The Dhammapada, published by Shambhala Publications. You may listen to Gil’s talks on Audio Dharma.
“To quiet these constructions is happiness. To be able to question these things, and slowly perhaps, maybe even imperceptibly, to allow these constructs to calm down, relax, not buy into them as much. Maybe not buy into them as much because we notice them.” – Gil Fronsdal
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Ep. 168 - Big Flower, Small Flower with Gil Fronsdal
Ep. 167 - Serving the Multitude with Nani Ma and Nina Rao
Ep. 166 - The Play of Awakening with Trudy Goodman
Ep. 165 - Meeting the Dharma in Ourselves with Gil Fronsdal
Ep. 164 - How to Hold the Complexity of Life with JoAnna Hardy
Ep. 163 - The Power of Yin with Jamie Catto & Jackie Dobrinska
Ep. 161 – Compassionate Presence with Trudy Goodman
Ep. 160 – Ram Dass Fellowship: Inviting the Wisdom of Death with Frank Ostaseski & Jackie Dobrinska
Ep. 159 - Matthieu Ricard's Meditative Story, hosted by Rohan Gunatillake
Ep. 158 - The Dharma in Brief with Gil Fronsdal
Ep. 157– Guided Practice: Settling into Sensations with JoAnna Hardy
Ep. 156 - The Antidote to Fear and Aggression with Trudy Goodman
Ep. 155 - Insight Into Not-Self with Gil Fronsdal
Ep. 154 - Mindshift: The Joy of Missing Out with Raghu Appasani, MD, Shira Lazar & Jordana Reim
Ep. 153 - Joseph Goldstein's Meditative Story hosted by Rohan Gunatillake
Ep. 152 - Sharon Salzberg's Meditative Story hosted by Rohan Gunatillake
Ep. 151 – Global Warming, Eco Anxiety, and Climate Distress with Nina Rao, Dekila Chungyalpa, & Allegra Lovejoy
Ep. 150 – Stories For a Living Future with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Ep. 149 – A Sitting Meditation Posture Clinic with Gil Fronsdal
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