Connecting to the timelessness of the current second, Gil Fronsdal provides sensible steps in the direction of the one supply of true happiness: contentment.
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This time on the BHNN Visitor Podcast, Gil Fronsdal explores:
- Seeing the timeless current by pictures
- Having fun with the preciousness of our restricted time right here on earth
- How company, capitalist America prefers people who find themselves discontent
- What the Buddha stated concerning the important significance of contentment
- What number of wishes typically dissipate on their very own when you journey them out
- The methods during which need alienates us from ourselves
- The embodied high quality of contentment and being in contact with ourselves
- Freedom within the Buddhist sense: freedom ‘from’ relatively than freedom ‘to do’
- Cultivating contentment by valuing it and seeing it as an necessary a part of life
- Actions which encourage contentment versus remaining frantic
- Dealing with discontentment head-on in order that it doesn’t drive us
This recording was initially revealed on Dharmaseed.
“Contentment is a falling away of hysteria, restlessness, reaching ahead, worry, being fragmented, and disconnected. It’s a type of settling. If we’re pushed by wishes, fears, preoccupations, or fantasies, typically our vitality, our focal point, is upwelling in an unhealthy method. As we’re contented, we really feel the settling down, settling down into the middle of gravity.” –Gil Fronsdal
About Gil Fronsdal:
Gil Fronsdal is the co-teacher for the Perception Meditation Middle in Redwood Metropolis, California; he has been educating since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana within the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 started coaching with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana instructor. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Middle the place he’s a part of its Lecturers Council. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest on the San Francisco Zen Middle in 1982, and in 1995 obtained Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Middle. He at the moment serves on the SF Zen Middle Elders’ Council. In 2011 he based IMC’s Perception Retreat Middle. He’s the creator of The Problem at Hand, essays on mindfulness observe; A Monastery Inside; a guide on the 5 hindrances referred to as Unhindered; and the translator of The Dhammapada, revealed by Shambhala Publications. You might take heed to Gil’s talks on Audio Dharma.
