AudioDharma: Collection of talks from Practice Note Series
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Dharma talks given by Gil Fronsdal and various guest speakers at the Insight Meditation Center. Each talk illuminates aspects of the Buddha's teachings. The purpose is the same that the Buddha had for his teachings, to guide us toward the end of suffering and the attainment of freedom. To learn more about the Insight Meditation Center, visit our website at https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/.
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Practice Note: Being Aware vs Doing Awareness
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2024.09.04 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Download Transcript:...
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Practice Notes: Connecting and Sustaining
This talk was given by Dawn Neal on 2023.05.10 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* 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/.…
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Practice Note: Working with Failure
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.06.29 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Use your so-called failures as food for going further with the practice. In that way, there are no failures. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: Just Notice and Feel
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.06.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Keep coming back to your present moment experience. Anything is okay. Your job is to feel it, sense it, be present for it, and then notice what happens as you feel it. ******* Download...
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Practice Note: Respect Everything And Be Still
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.05.25 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* ‘Respect’ can be a substitute for the word ‘mindfulness.’ Let something inside be still as you look anew at what's happening in the present moment. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: "Don't Know" Mantra
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.05.04 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Sometimes it’s useful to have a trick to help you disengage from the allure, the pull, or the force of thinking. When you recognize that you’re thinking, add to that thought the mantra:...
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Practice Note: The Nature of Attention Itself
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.03.09 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Sometimes it is interesting to back away from many of the things we’re aware of, and notice something about the awareness itself. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: What Intentions Are Operating?
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.03.02 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* One of the interesting things to do in mindfulness practice is to start becoming sensitive to and aware of what is it your mind wants all the time. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: Keep It Simple
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.02.02 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* One way to make the practice simple is to stay close to the fact that things are either pleasant, unpleasant or neither, and stay with that simplicity without any bigger stories, or...
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Practice Note: Awareness Holds Everything
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.01.26 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Sometimes it’s difficult to hold something when we’re focusing on it in a narrow way. But sometimes awareness can feel very broad and spacious, and it can hold whatever our experience…
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Practice Note: Stillness and Movement
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.01.19 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* To feel the contrast of stillness and movement can make our life very rich and meaningful. It’s like being calm in the middle of lots of things going on. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: Resting in Uncomfortableness
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.01.12 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* One of the great ways to use mindfulness practice, is to turn towards that which is uncomfortable, and find how to rest in the middle of it. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: The Shape of Awareness
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.12.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Part of becoming free is to have fluidity – and for awareness take different shapes at different times. ******* Download Transcript…
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Practice Note: Mindfulness Itself
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.12.01 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Noticing the quality of mindfulness itself can add depth, fullness, and poignancy to your life. ******* Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/21467/download…
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Practice Note: Mindfulness of the Background
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.11.10 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* See if you can feel or sense your way into the background of your mind, your heart, your attitude. ******* Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/21461/download...
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Practice Note: Can You Relax Your Thinking Muscle?
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.11.03 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Look at thinking directly. Recognize it’s there, and find out where it might be in the body – someplace physical that you can soften and relax. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: Noticing Emotions in the Body
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.10.27 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Let the body help you not be entangled with your emotional state, but rather to just be present with it, and feel it. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: The Importance of the Body
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.10.13 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Whatever happens – strong feelings, loud sounds, or all kinds of thoughts and concerns – yield to the body. Drop into the body, and feel what’s going on there. ******* Download...
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Practice Note: The Breath at the Center of Our Life
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.10.06 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* I like to think of breathing as the center, and then in concentric circles out of that center is: our body, our emotions, our cognitive life, our life in the world. ******* Download...
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Practice Note: Ease as a Reference Point
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.09.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Breathing is a way of finding ease. Breathe in a relaxed way, making breathing room for your breathing, for your mind, for your experience. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: Working with Tension
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.09.01 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* If you have tension, one way to work with it is to gently stay there, You just stay and hang out with the breath as best you can, breathing through, breathing with the place of tension…
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Practice Note: In the Body
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.08.25 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* When you’re in your body, it’s easier to let go of your involvement with all your mental interests. ******* Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/21435/download...
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Practice Note: Amoeba Mind
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.08.04 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* It can be an interesting experiment to keep your mindfulness really simple, and just see how you are with the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral aspects of your lived experience. *******...
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Practice Note: Sitting like a Mountain
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.07.28 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* The practice is learning how to let the winds of thoughts, feelings, or emotions move freely, while at the same time having an inner stability – a solid, stable core or presence.…
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Practice Note: Be Relaxed
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.07.21 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* The simple instruction today is to notice what is happening in the present moment – whether it is pleasant, unpleasant, or neither – and to be relaxed about it. ******* Download...
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Practice Note: Can You Believe in the Simplicity of Breathing?
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.07.14 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* In order to challenge yourself, see if you can believe in your breathing more than you believe in your thinking. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: What Arises out of Stillness?
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.06.09 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* In mindfulness practice, meditation practice, there’s something very valuable about tuning into the powerful stillness that's always present. ******* Download Transcript:...
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Practice Note: The Heart of Buddhist Practice
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.05.26 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* In the preparatory phase of Buddhist training, we cultivate mindfulness, calm, concentration, compassion, etc. The second phase of training – the heart of Buddhist practice – is when...
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Practice Note: Practice as Kite Flying
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.05.19 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Steadying the mind can be like flying a kite: you keep the string of your attention attached from your mind to the point of your breathing – not too slack, not too tight. *******…
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Practice Note: Melding Kindness and Mindfulness
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.05.12 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* The pre-eminent attitude to bring to mindfulness practice is kindness. ******* Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/21395/download ******* For more talks like...
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Practice Note: One Thing at a Time
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.04.28 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* This morning I offer you the idea of just doing one thing at a time. It can be as simple as, if you’re going to open the door to go to the bathroom, just open the door. You can open the...
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Practice Note: Noting Thinking
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.04.21 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* In meditation, one of the very useful things to do is to notice, as quickly as you can, when you start thinking. If all you do is just note, 'thinking' and let go of it, this would be...
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Practice Note: Where Does Thinking Occur?
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.04.14 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Since discursive thinking pulls you away from your present moment mindfulness, it can be helpful in quieting the mind to locate where this discursive thinking occurs. You can actually...
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Practice Note: What Needs Acceptance?
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.02.24 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* One of the primary tasks of mindfulness meditation is to arrive in the present moment. What needs to be accepted so that you can be more fully here? In that acceptance, there can be a...
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Practice Note: Three Phases of Practice
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.02.17 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* In walking and sitting meditation, there can be three phases of practice: to see, to feel, to soften – and it can be useful to pay attention to each of these. ******* Download…
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Practice Note: Where Our Attention Goes
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.01.20 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* If you relax, is there a place within, a center of gravity, where attention wants to go and collect itself? What you do with your attention, how it is used, and how it operates, are...
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Practice Note: A Boat in the Water
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.01.06 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* The two primary partners in both seated and walking meditation are mindfulness and concentration. You collect yourself around the tip of your boat (e.g., the breath or the feet), and…
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Dharma talks given by Gil Fronsdal and various guest speakers at the Insight Meditation Center. Each talk illuminates aspects of the Buddha's teachings. The purpose is the same that the Buddha had for his teachings, to guide us toward the end of suffering and the attainment of freedom. To learn more about the Insight Meditation Center, visit our website at https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/.
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