Gil Fronsdal's Dharma Talks
Gil Fronsdal
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 behaviors as consumerism and individualism. Vipassana creates a different set of values by fostering a high degree of self-reflection on our underlying motivations and intentions, both as individuals and as a society.
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2017-08-02
Family Retreat Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-02-11
01 talks: Retreat Opening and Orientation
2023-02-12
03 talk: Hindrances and Assistances - Sensual Desire
2023-02-12
05 meditation: Knowing, sensing, relaxing
2023-02-13
06 meditation: Awareness of awareness
2023-02-14
08 instructions: Mindfulness of emotions
2023-02-14
09 meditation: Mindfulness of Emotions
2022-02-13
09 talk: Cultivating Stability
2023-02-14
11 talk: Sloth and torpor
2022-02-14
12 instructions and meditation: mindfulness of breathing
2022-02-14
13 talk: Well-being
2023-02-15
14 meditation: non-distraction
2022-02-15
15 meditation: mindfulness of the body
2022-02-15
16 instructions: mindfulness of the body
2023-02-15
16 meditation: Supports for practice
2022-02-15
17 talk: Confidence
2023-02-16
18 talk: doubt as a hindrance and as a support
2022-02-16
19 instructions: mindfulness of emotions
2023-02-17
19 meditation: silence, stillness, spaciousness
2022-02-16
20 meditation: mindfulness of emotions
2023-02-17
20 reflection: Acknowledging the damage of the New Zealand cyclone
2022-02-16
21 instructions p2: developing respect for emotions
2022-02-16
22 talk: Inconstancy
2022-02-17
25 instructions and meditation: mindfulness of thinking
2022-02-17
26 talk: Suffering
2022-02-18
28 instructions: awareness of awareness
2022-02-18
29 meditation: awareness of awareness
2022-02-18
30 instructions: awareness of awareness p2
2022-02-18
31 talk: insight into not-self
2022-02-19
33 meditation: practice review
2022-02-19
34 talk: Anukampa as caring
2013-05-08
3rd Foundation of Mindfulness: Here & Now or There & Then
1998-12-30
7 Factors of Awakening
2006-12-16
Bahiya And The Simplicity Of Freedom
2020-04-15
Beauty and Care (Onine Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1998-11-23
Big Flower, Small Flower
1995-10-08
Brahma Vihara Metta
2014-03-06
Brahma Vihara Practice
2014-03-13
Brahma Viharas
2014-03-20
Brahma Viharas
2012-08-02
Buddhism as Storytelling, Storytelling as Buddhism
2010-11-18
Closing Morning Talk on Emptiness
2009-12-30
Coming home to an easeful breath.
1997-04-20
Concentration
2008-12-12
Constructions And Their Fading
2000-09-30
Contentment
2018-04-28
Day 1: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-07
Day 10: Morning Sit with Instructions
2017-03-08
Day 11: Brahma Vihara Instructions
2017-03-12
Day 15: Morning Sit with Instructions
2017-03-15
Day 18: Brahma Vihara Instruction
2019-11-14
Day 2 Afternoon Session
2017-02-28
Day 3: Morning Sit with Instructions
2018-05-02
Day 5: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-05
Day 8: Morning Sit with Instructions
2017-03-01
Day Four: Brahma Vihara Instructions
2010-03-11
Dependent Arising and Joy
2010-03-19
Dependent Arising and Liberation
2010-11-13
Dependent Origination
2012-11-30
Dependent Origination
2010-03-15
Dependent Origination and Samadhi
2010-11-12
Dharma in Brief
2014-03-18
Dispassion, Fading Away and Freedom
2014-03-25
Ease and Nothing to do
2011-05-18
Emotions, Thoughts and the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness
2010-11-15
Emptiness and Letting Go
2012-12-03
Emptiness in Buddhist History
2010-11-16
Emptiness in the Mahayana
2012-12-02
Emptying into Emptiness
2010-11-15
Emptying the Mind
2012-12-27
Factors of Awakening -- Mindfulness
2013-01-01
Factors or Awakening - Tranquility
2014-07-31
Family Retreat Talk; Equanimity
1999-11-29
Flower Sermon 2.0 - Missing 1st 10 Minutes
1998-11-27
Four Noble Truths
2010-12-31
Going for Refuge
2012-12-02
Guided Meditation on Emptiness
2010-11-12
Guided Morning Instructions
2007-12-13
Here
2009-08-16
Here and Mindfulness of the Body
2007-12-28
How And The Quality Of Mind
2000-12-31
Imagination: A New Year’s Talk
2011-12-31
Immediacy
2009-08-20
Including Everything
2014-03-01
Into the Stream of Refuge and Confidence
2014-03-11
Joy as a Condition for Liberation
1998-12-02
Karma & Intention
2011-12-27
Knowing the Mind, Training the Mind, Freeing the Mind
2016-08-04
Lessons from Parenting
2010-03-25
Letting Go and Picking Up
2010-03-25
Letting Go and Picking Up
2017-03-19
Liberative Dependent Arising: Liberation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-13
Liberative Dependent Arising: Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-06
Liberative Dependent Arising: Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1995-10-07
Metta
2015-07-30
Metta for Self, Others and Self-and-others.
2003-12-31
No Part Left Out: The Unity Of Wisdom And Compassion
2010-02-28
Nourishment, Challenge, and Change
2018-08-02
Parenting: Self, other, and Beyond
2023-04-23
Posture Clinic
2009-06-04
Practice in Difficult Times
1999-02-06
Practicing in Accord with Nature
2011-08-25
Retreat Practice IRC
2014-03-16
Seeing Things As They Are
1993-04-11
Self No Self
2001-08-08
Self, Suffering And The Relational Self
2008-12-27
Seven Factors Of Awakening
2008-12-31
Stilling The Constructions Of Mind
2012-12-05
Stories From Emptiness
2000-12-30
The Deathless
2012-11-29
The Dharma in Brief
2012-05-18
The Four Resolves
2011-05-26
The Gifts of Retreat Practice
2010-12-27
The Heart's Compassion
2010-03-04
The Hindrances
2013-12-28
The Mindfulness Factors of Awakening
2015-05-13
The Miracle of Concentration and Energy
2009-03-05
The Perfection Of Renunciation
2009-03-12
The Perfection of Resolve
2012-05-14
This - Here - Dharma
2018-05-01
To Be Here (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-01-01
Tranquility as a Factor of Awakening
2014-03-04
Vedana-A Way of Knowing
2009-03-18
Wisdom and the Path
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Select one of Gil Fronsdal's 36 retreats
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1900-01-01
IMCB Regular Talks
1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2007-12-12
Insight Meditation Retreat
2007-12-26
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2008-12-10
Insight Meditation
2008-12-26
New Years Retreat
2009-03-02
Insight Meditation March Month Long
2009-06-02
Practice in Difficult Times
2009-08-14
Vajrapani
2009-12-26
New Years
2010-01-31
February 2010 Month Long
2010-03-01
March 2010 Month Long
2010-11-11
Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat
2010-12-26
New Year's Retreat
2011-05-15
May Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-12-26
New Year's Retreat
2012-05-13
May Insight Retreat
2012-08-01
Family Retreat
2012-11-28
Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat
2012-12-26
New Year's Retreat
2013-05-04
May Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-12-27
New Year's Retreat
2014-03-01
March Month Long Retreat
2014-07-30
Family Retreat
2015-05-10
May Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-07-29
Family Retreat
2016-08-03
Family Retreat
2017-02-25
March Monthlong Retreat
2017-08-02
Family Retreat
2018-04-27
Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation
2018-08-01
Family Retreat at Spirit Rock
2019-11-12
APP2 Retreat #2: Emptiness
2020-04-11
Living Awareness through Insight Meditation - Online
2022-02-12
Cultivation and Insight
2023-02-11
Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2023-04-22
Insight Meditation Retreat
2001-08-08
Self, Suffering And The Relational Self
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This talk presents a discussion on the Buddha's discourses on the Four
Noble Truths and Not-self, with reflections on the importance of our
"relational self".
