Gil Fronsdal: Recorded: 2017-06-19

Gil Fronsdal: Recorded: 2017-06-18

Gil Fronsdal: Recorded: 2017-06-16

Gil Fronsdal: Recorded: 2017-06-16

Gil Fronsdal: Exploring being carried away by the currents and rivers of thought vs. being rooted and standing upright in the stable ground of arriving *here*. With mindfulness, we find stability. We find our footing in the present moment.

Gil Fronsdal: The hook to want to be involved in problem-solving, planning, and redoing the past is quite strong, as is the hook to try to be safe, to try to get what we want, to be the kind of person we want to be or to defend ourselves, or rationalize what’s going on. Meditation is not so much a place to solve problems, but to create the conditions that are supportive for clear seeing, and for a calm, unagitated mind. Explore what it’s like to recognize, with calm, clear attention, until you feel that your awareness is free of reactivity and has qualities that you want to live with, that are nourishing for you. So look, and look again. The Latin etymology of the word ‘respect’ means “to look again.” Look more deeply. And keep looking until you feel that the very recognition, the very mindfulness of what’s going on has a quality of clarity, of stability, of calm – just seeing it. As this recognition factor gets stronger, it’s like we’re taking up residence in the recognition more than in the agitation. Rather than taking up residence in the flowing river, we can take up residence on the stable ground, in being firm and upright, independent of the river, of all the things around us.

Gil Fronsdal: Recorded: 2017-06-12

Gil Fronsdal: Jun 4-11: Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori (2017-06-04)

Gil Fronsdal: Jun 4-11: Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori (2017-06-04)

Gil Fronsdal: Jun 4-11: Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori (2017-06-04)