Outlining the four resolves of wisdom, truth, relinquishment, and peace, Gil Fronsdal takes us down the path of freedom.
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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal explores:
- The four resolves of wisdom, truth, relinquishment, and peace
- How many people’s lives are founded on their attachments
- Finding the dharma path in our lives
- Arriving where we are rather than being in the future or past
- The many beautiful meanings of being committed to truth
- Connecting to our lived experience and finding truth in the present moment
- Adorning the mind through practicing generosity
- Relinquishment as a means to enhance ourselves and to let go
- Gaining more from release than we do from holding
- Using daily meditation to slowly become more peaceful
This recording was originally published on Dharmaseed.
“When you’re engaged in a path of freedom, of mindfulness, of showing up, it’s partly a journey from living a life that has stress and suffering in it, to a life that doesn’t.” – Gil Fronsdal
About Gil Fronsdal:
Gil Fronsdal is the co-teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he is part of its Teachers Council. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He currently serves on the SF Zen Center Elders’ Council. In 2011 he founded IMC’s Insight Retreat Center. He is the author of The Issue at Hand, essays on mindfulness practice; A Monastery Within; a book on the five hindrances called Unhindered; and the translator of The Dhammapada, published by Shambhala Publications. You may listen to Gil’s talks on Audio Dharma.