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Gil Fronsdal's Dharma Talks
Gil Fronsdal
Right now I'm deeply involved with developing an urban meditation center in my community. It's important for me to sink my teaching roots into a commitment to my community, to ongoing relationships with people as they practice inside retreats and out of retreats. What are all the ways Sangha is relevant and applicable to our family life, our work, and our play?
2023-02-12 03 talk: Hindrances and Assistances - Sensual Desire 44:25
NOTE: recording cuts out after 30 minutes due to a technical error, sorry
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2023-02-12 05 meditation: Knowing, sensing, relaxing 17:26
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2023-02-11 01 talks: Retreat Opening and Orientation 59:53
with Gil Fronsdal, Jill Shepherd
Introduction of teachers, supports for being on retreat (jill), and introduction of retreat theme: hindrances and assistances (Gil)
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat
2022-02-19 34 talk: Anukampa as caring 43:01
Anukampa as the capacity to care is a natural expression of our practice deepening
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight
2022-02-19 33 meditation: practice review 49:42
Beginning with the body and breathing, opening to emotions and thoughts then awareness itself
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight
2022-02-18 31 talk: insight into not-self 46:08
Learning to see more clearly what takes us out of the stream of the present moment, and how preoccupation with self-referencing keeps us stuck
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight
2022-02-18 30 instructions: awareness of awareness p2 5:45
Simplicity of awareness highlights what is extra and not needed, for example ideas of me, my and mine
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight
2022-02-18 29 meditation: awareness of awareness 35:39
Cultivating simple, clear and spacious presence
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight
2022-02-18 28 instructions: awareness of awareness 12:19
Bringing awareness to awareness itself, and notice if we're adding anything extra to it
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight
2022-02-17 26 talk: Suffering 43:46
Exploring our relationship to suffering and its causes
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

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