Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Week 1: Mindfulness of Breathing

This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2016.01.18 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Four Foundations: Distant observer on the mountaintop. Surgeon in the middle. Gatekeeper: Wisdom in the present moment that can choose. Cow herder with relaxed view. Practice: Mindfulness of breathing. Recognize how we're breathing. Untamed mind is dangerous. Feel embodied existence. Relax tension in body. ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/22063/download ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License