Focusing on the ways that Buddhism points us inward, Gil Fronsdal explains the dharma in a brief and accessible way.
“The spiritual wealth that we have is found through the present moment, in our hearts, here. The Buddha referred to this inner wealth as being the greatest wealth you can have.” – Gil Fronsdal
In this guest episode, Gil lectures on:
- Emptiness within Theravada Buddhism
- What happens after our basic necessities are met
- How we are versus what we do
- Becoming free from doctrines
- The importance of practice and heightened sensitivity
- Suffering and the cessation of suffering
- Skillful actions and improving the quality of inner life
- The portability of inner wealth
- The limitations of obsessing over the self
- Craving and how we can hold sensations without clinging
“You can experience suffering in all of many forms and you can experience the liberation and freedom from it, the absence of it. The guideline here is what you can know for yourself. The inner life, the quality of your life, what you can know for yourself, that’s really what this tradition is pointing to.” – Gil Fronsdal