Gil Fronsdal speaks about the impact of spiritual community, simplicity, and generosity while sharing meaningful stories from his practical life.
Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Try online therapy today at betterhelp.com/behere and take a step toward becoming your best self. On this week’s BHNN guest podcast, Gil Frondal outlines: Honesty, communication, and understanding as an alternative to LSD The effects of reading Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind and going to the San Francisco Zen Center The importance of doing spiritual practice and finding community with other people Finding freedom in simplicity and generosity The practice of working through fear and relaxing Gil’s founding of Mindful Insight Meditation Center, balancing the commercial power of society Growing Up About Gil Fronsdal: Gil Fronsdal is an associate teacher at Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California. He has been teaching since 1990. He has been practicing Zen and Vipassana in the United States and Asia since 1975. He became a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985 and began training with Jack Kornfield to become a Vipassana teacher in 1989. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and is a member of its Teachers Council. Gill was ordained a Soto Zen monk in 1982 at the San Francisco Zen Center and received Dharma transmission from Abbot Mel Weitzman at the Berkeley Zen Center in 1995. He currently serves on the SF Zen Center Council of Elders. In 2011, he founded IMC’s Insight Retreat Center. He is the author of The Issue at Hand, an essay on the practice of mindfulness. Inside the monastery. A book about five disorders called Unhindered. Translator of the Dhammapada published by Shambhala Publishing. Audio You can listen to Gill’s talk on Dharma.
“When I went to the Zen Center, people didn’t participate. They didn’t pick up the cues and act on them. They became a mirror for me, allowing me to see myself clearly through others and saying, ‘This is great.’ I wanted that mirror image to be seen. I’m very confident that I wouldn’t have been able to practice as much as I have for so many years without the support of the community I was with at the time when I lived in the Zen Center.” – Gil Fronsdal
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