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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gil Fronsdal's most recent Dharma talks
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Right now I'm deeply involved with developing an urban meditation center in my community. It's important for me to sink my teaching roots into a commitment to my community, to ongoing relationships with people as they practice inside retreats and out of retreats. What are all the ways Sangha is relevant and applicable to our family life, our work, and our play?Ongoing is my investigation of my own understanding about the assumptions behind what we teach. The graduate work I did in Buddhist studies greases the wheel for this type of reflection. Since part of the inquiry about freedom involves not being stuck in one position, I enjoy pulling the rug out from underneath what we, as teachers, stand on. In other words, to practice the practice.At the core, what deeply motivates me is my compassion for the suffering in our world. Vipassana teachings, especially as we adapt the forms to an American culture, offer our society a chance to truly look at the turmoil caused by such behav
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Gil Fronsdal: Posture Clinic
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: 20 reflection: Acknowledging the damage of the New Zealand cyclone
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: 19 meditation: silence, stillness, spaciousness
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: 18 talk: doubt as a hindrance and as a support
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: 14 meditation: non-distraction
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Staying present with the immediacy of experience, instead of thinking about it
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Gil Fronsdal: 16 meditation: Supports for practice
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: 11 talk: Sloth and torpor
(Te Moata Retreat Center) NOTE: recording cuts out after 30 minutes due to a technical error, sorry
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Gil Fronsdal: 09 meditation: Mindfulness of Emotions
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: 08 instructions: Mindfulness of emotions
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Some ways of relating skilfully to emotions
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Gil Fronsdal: 06 meditation: Awareness of awareness
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: 03 talk: Hindrances and Assistances - Sensual Desire
(Te Moata Retreat Center) NOTE: recording cuts out after 30 minutes due to a technical error, sorry
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Gil Fronsdal: 05 meditation: Knowing, sensing, relaxing
(Te Moata Retreat Center)
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Gil Fronsdal, Jill Shepherd: 01 talks: Retreat Opening and Orientation
(Te Moata Retreat Center) Introduction of teachers, supports for being on retreat (jill), and introduction of retreat theme: hindrances and assistances (Gil)
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Gil Fronsdal: 34 talk: Anukampa as caring
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Anukampa as the capacity to care is a natural expression of our practice deepening
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Gil Fronsdal: 33 meditation: practice review
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with the body and breathing, opening to emotions and thoughts then awareness itself
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Gil Fronsdal: 31 talk: insight into not-self
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Learning to see more clearly what takes us out of the stream of the present moment, and how preoccupation with self-referencing keeps us stuck
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Gil Fronsdal: 30 instructions: awareness of awareness p2
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Simplicity of awareness highlights what is extra and not needed, for example ideas of me, my and mine
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Gil Fronsdal: 29 meditation: awareness of awareness
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Cultivating simple, clear and spacious presence
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Gil Fronsdal: 28 instructions: awareness of awareness
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to awareness itself, and notice if we're adding anything extra to it
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Gil Fronsdal: 26 talk: Suffering
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring our relationship to suffering and its causes
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Gil Fronsdal: 25 instructions and meditation: mindfulness of thinking
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Understanding how we're relating to our thinking, and learning how to not be bothered by our thoughts
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Gil Fronsdal: 22 talk: Inconstancy
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring insight into anicca or inconstancy
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Gil Fronsdal: 21 instructions p2: developing respect for emotions
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Having respect for our emotions helps us be upright in the middle of it all, and that still, quiet attention gathers what's good in us
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Gil Fronsdal: 20 meditation: mindfulness of emotions
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Practising recognising, allowing, feeling and teasing apart emotions (RAFT)
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Gil Fronsdal: 19 instructions: mindfulness of emotions
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to emotions and using the acronym RAFT to stay present with the experiences in the body and the mind
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Gil Fronsdal: 17 talk: Confidence
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the third of the three conditions that support insight: confidence, or dharma confidence
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Gil Fronsdal: 16 instructions: mindfulness of the body
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring how body sensations can be an early warning system that reactivity is taking over; and the benefits of bringing mind and body into harmony with each other
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Gil Fronsdal: 15 meditation: mindfulness of the body
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Progressing from mindfulness of breathing to mindfulness of the body, bringing awareness to physical sensations
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Gil Fronsdal: 13 talk: Well-being
(Auckland Insight Meditation) The importance of cultivating dharma joy or well-being, which includes qualities such as ease, warmth, happpiness, contentment, gladness, delight, bliss, as supports for the path to freedom
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Gil Fronsdal: 12 instructions and meditation: mindfulness of breathing
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to how we're paying attention, allowing it to be relaxed and easy as we steady our mindfulness on the experience of breathing
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Gil Fronsdal: 09 talk: Cultivating Stability
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Cultivating stability as one of the beneficial conditions htat supports insight to arise
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Gil Fronsdal: Beauty and Care (Onine Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha’s teachings on Beauty (Kalyana) and Care (Anukampa)
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Gil Fronsdal: Day 2 Afternoon Session
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Repeated Question Experience on Inconstancy
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Gil Fronsdal: Parenting: Self, other, and Beyond
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Day 5: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: To Be Here (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Day 1: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Family Retreat Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Universal Insight into the Three Characteristics; Impermanence, Suffering, Not-Self
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Gil Fronsdal: Liberative Dependent Arising: Liberation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Day 18: Brahma Vihara Instruction
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Liberative Dependent Arising: Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Day 15: Morning Sit with Instructions
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Day 11: Brahma Vihara Instructions
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Day 10: Morning Sit with Instructions
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Liberative Dependent Arising: Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Day 8: Morning Sit with Instructions
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Day Four: Brahma Vihara Instructions
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Day 3: Morning Sit with Instructions
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Lessons from Parenting
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Gil Fronsdal: Metta for Self, Others and Self-and-others.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Right now I'm deeply involved with developing an urban meditation center in my community. It's important for me to sink my teaching roots into a commitment to my community, to ongoing relationships with people as they practice inside retreats and out of retreats. What are all the ways Sangha is relevant and applicable to our family life, our work, and our play?Ongoing is my investigation of my own understanding about the assumptions behind what we teach. The graduate work I did in Buddhist studies greases the wheel for this type of reflection. Since part of the inquiry about freedom involves not being stuck in one position, I enjoy pulling the rug out from underneath what we, as teachers, stand on. In other words, to practice the practice.At the core, what deeply motivates me is my compassion for the suffering in our world. Vipassana teachings, especially as we adapt the forms to an American culture, offer our society a chance to truly look at the turmoil caused by such behav
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