AudioDharma: Collection of talks from Practice Note Series: Recent Episodes
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Dharma talks given by Gil Fronsdal and various guest speakers at the Insight Meditation Center. Each talk illuminates aspects of the Buddha's teachings. The purpose is the same that the Buddha had for his teachings, to guide us toward the end of suffering and the attainment of freedom. To learn more about the Insight Meditation Center, visit our website at https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/.
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.06.29 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Use your so-called failures as food for going further with the practice. In that way, there are no failures.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.06.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Keep coming back to your present moment experience. Anything is okay. Your job is to feel it, sense it, be present for it, and then notice what happens as you feel it.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.05.25 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
‘Respect’ can be a substitute for the word ‘mindfulness.’ Let something inside be still as you look anew at what's happening in the present moment.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.05.04 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Sometimes it’s useful to have a trick to help you disengage from the allure, the pull, or the force of thinking. When you recognize that you’re thinking, add to that thought the mantra: “Don’t know.”
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.03.09 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Sometimes it is interesting to back away from many of the things we’re aware of, and notice something about the awareness itself.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.03.02 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
One of the interesting things to do in mindfulness practice is to start becoming sensitive to and aware of what is it your mind wants all the time.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.02.02 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
One way to make the practice simple is to stay close to the fact that things are either pleasant, unpleasant or neither, and stay with that simplicity without any bigger stories, or assigning meaning, purpose or consequence.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.01.26 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Sometimes it’s difficult to hold something when we’re focusing on it in a narrow way. But sometimes awareness can feel very broad and spacious, and it can hold whatever our experience is.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.01.19 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
To feel the contrast of stillness and movement can make our life very rich and meaningful. It’s like being calm in the middle of lots of things going on.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2011.01.12 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
One of the great ways to use mindfulness practice, is to turn towards that which is uncomfortable, and find how to rest in the middle of it.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.12.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Part of becoming free is to have fluidity – and for awareness take different shapes at different times.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.12.01 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Noticing the quality of mindfulness itself can add depth, fullness, and poignancy to your life.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.11.10 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
See if you can feel or sense your way into the background of your mind, your heart, your attitude.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.11.03 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Look at thinking directly. Recognize it’s there, and find out where it might be in the body – someplace physical that you can soften and relax.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.10.27 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Let the body help you not be entangled with your emotional state, but rather to just be present with it, and feel it.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.10.13 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Whatever happens – strong feelings, loud sounds, or all kinds of thoughts and concerns – yield to the body. Drop into the body, and feel what’s going on there.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.10.06 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
I like to think of breathing as the center, and then in concentric circles out of that center is: our body, our emotions, our cognitive life, our life in the world.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.09.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Breathing is a way of finding ease. Breathe in a relaxed way, making breathing room for your breathing, for your mind, for your experience.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.09.01 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
If you have tension, one way to work with it is to gently stay there, You just stay and hang out with the breath as best you can, breathing through, breathing with the place of tension – very generously, spaciously, without any agenda.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.08.25 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
When you’re in your body, it’s easier to let go of your involvement with all your mental interests.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.08.04 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
It can be an interesting experiment to keep your mindfulness really simple, and just see how you are with the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral aspects of your lived experience.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.07.28 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
The practice is learning how to let the winds of thoughts, feelings, or emotions move freely, while at the same time having an inner stability – a solid, stable core or presence.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.07.21 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
The simple instruction today is to notice what is happening in the present moment – whether it is pleasant, unpleasant, or neither – and to be relaxed about it.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.07.14 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
In order to challenge yourself, see if you can believe in your breathing more than you believe in your thinking.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.06.09 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
In mindfulness practice, meditation practice, there’s something very valuable about tuning into the powerful stillness that's always present.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.05.26 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
In the preparatory phase of Buddhist training, we cultivate mindfulness, calm, concentration, compassion, etc. The second phase of training – the heart of Buddhist practice – is when things are not going the way we want.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.05.19 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Steadying the mind can be like flying a kite: you keep the string of your attention attached from your mind to the point of your breathing – not too slack, not too tight.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.05.12 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
The pre-eminent attitude to bring to mindfulness practice is kindness.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.04.28 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
This morning I offer you the idea of just doing one thing at a time. It can be as simple as, if you’re going to open the door to go to the bathroom, just open the door. You can open the door and be thinking about all kinds of other things, but what is it like to just open the door?
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.04.21 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
In meditation, one of the very useful things to do is to notice, as quickly as you can, when you start thinking. If all you do is just note, 'thinking' and let go of it, this would be very significant.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.04.14 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Since discursive thinking pulls you away from your present moment mindfulness, it can be helpful in quieting the mind to locate where this discursive thinking occurs. You can actually appreciate the changing sensations in the thinking mind as it quiets down.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.02.24 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
One of the primary tasks of mindfulness meditation is to arrive in the present moment. What needs to be accepted so that you can be more fully here? In that acceptance, there can be a clearer, stronger presence of mindfulness.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.02.17 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
In walking and sitting meditation, there can be three phases of practice: to see, to feel, to soften – and it can be useful to pay attention to each of these.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.01.20 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
If you relax, is there a place within, a center of gravity, where attention wants to go and collect itself? What you do with your attention, how it is used, and how it operates, are important issues in practice.
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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2010.01.06 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
The two primary partners in both seated and walking meditation are mindfulness and concentration. You collect yourself around the tip of your boat (e.g., the breath or the feet), and then just hold your course, and let things wash off.
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