Are we trying to find inner peace in the wrong way?
Gil Frontal discusses fostering all inclusive consciousness that embraces each experience and sense without resistance or judgment.
Today’s podcasts are brought to you by Betterhelp. Try online therapy at betterhelp.com/beherenow. In this episode, Gil Frondal offers the following insights: If we come up with what our pursuits are and we are pursuing Buddha’s path of freedom when we pursue doctors of freedom, inner life, illnesses of happiness and openness like a child. It involves using mindfulness to expand awareness and including all aspects of the experience of practicing non-judgmental and non-discriminatory consciousness.
“The most sacred thing in Buddhism is not something outside you. It is not a temple, not a statue, not an image, not a text. Rather, the most sacred thing is your consciousness, when there is nothing outside. – Gil Frondar
About Gil Fronsdal:
Gil Frontal is a co-teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood, California. He has been teaching since 1990. He has been practicing Zen and Vipassana in the US and Asia since 1975. He was a Burmese monk, Teravada in 1985. Gill teaches that he is part of the Teacher Council at the Spirit Rock Meditation Centre. Gill was ordained as a priest of Sotozen at the San Franciscozen Center in 1982 and received a dharma transmission in 1995 by Melweitzman, the abbot of the Berklesen Center. He is currently serving as SF Zen Center Elders’ Council. In 2011, he founded IMC’s Insight Retreat Center. GIL holds a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from UC Davis and was active in promoting the field of sustainable agriculture. In 1998 he received his PhD in Religion from Stanford University, studying the early developments of bodhisattva’s ideals. He is the author of essay questions on mindfulness practice. Inside the Monastery; a book on five obstacles that are not obstructed. Translator of Damapada, published by Shambhala Publishing. You can hear Gill’s speech on Audio Dharma.
