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Episode Synopsis
Gil Fronsdal discusses having confidence in what the Buddha represents within ourselves and being a refuge for all beings.
This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal explains:
How the Buddha defined confidence and fate
Instructions from the Buddha on making oneself a refuge
Being a refuge and support for all beings
Personal worth and finding yourself in community
The benefit of having confidence in ourselves and in our practice
The imperfections that stain the mind
Having confidence in that which the Buddha represents within ourselves
Reflecting on the times when our minds are not caught
How the dharma is visible here and now, not there and then
The balance between responsibility and allowing natural unfolding
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. Gil has an undergraduate degree in agriculture from U.C. Davis where he was active in promoting the field of sustainable farming. In 1998 he received a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University studying the earliest developments of the bodhisattva ideal. 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.
This 2014 talk was originally published by Dharmaseed.
“The reference point for having confidence or faith or trust in the Buddha is not in the great power and wisdom of the Buddha, but rather something that we can know for ourselves, that we realize is reflected in the Buddha.” – Gil Fronsdal
This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil Fronsdal explains:
How the Buddha defined confidence and fate
Instructions from the Buddha on making oneself a refuge
Being a refuge and support for all beings
Personal worth and finding yourself in community
The benefit of having confidence in ourselves and in our practice
The imperfections that stain the mind
Having confidence in that which the Buddha represents within ourselves
Reflecting on the times when our minds are not caught
How the dharma is visible here and now, not there and then
The balance between responsibility and allowing natural unfolding
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. Gil has an undergraduate degree in agriculture from U.C. Davis where he was active in promoting the field of sustainable farming. In 1998 he received a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University studying the earliest developments of the bodhisattva ideal. 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.
This 2014 talk was originally published by Dharmaseed.
“The reference point for having confidence or faith or trust in the Buddha is not in the great power and wisdom of the Buddha, but rather something that we can know for ourselves, that we realize is reflected in the Buddha.” – Gil Fronsdal
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