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Gil Fronsdal

Gil Fronsdal is the co-teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California and the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, California. He has been teaching since 1990. Gil has practiced Zen and Vipassana since 1975 and has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford. He has trained in both the Japanese Soto Zen tradition and the Insight Meditation lineage of Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia. Gil was trained as a Vipassana teacher by Jack Kornfield and is part of the Vipassana teachers' collective at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 he received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He has been the primary teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California since 1990. He is a husband and father of two boys.
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Five Hindrances 2001-10-2562:57DownloadStream
Meditation on the Breath 2001-10-2246:19DownloadStream
Dharma Realms 2001-10-1545:51DownloadStream
Mindfulness and Peace 2001-10-1438:44DownloadStream
Introduction to Meditation (Week4) 2001-10-111:28:25DownloadStream
Listening 2001-10-0744:45DownloadStream
Introduction to Meditation (Week3) 2001-10-041:14:27DownloadStream
Relating to People 2001-09-3054:23DownloadStream
Introduction to Meditation (Week2) 2001-09-271:28:12DownloadStream
How Have We Been Changed 2001-09-2510:30DownloadStream
Introduction to Meditation (Week 1) 2001-09-201:28:03DownloadStream
Response to World Events 2001-09-1750:04DownloadStream
Dedication of Merit/Forgiveness 2001-09-1643:23DownloadStream
Brahma Viharas 2001-09-0934:54DownloadStream
Metta 2001-09-0634:23DownloadStream
Guided Metta 2001-09-0628:03DownloadStream
Guided Meditation on Forgiveness 2001-09-0615:07DownloadStream
Lovingkindness (Metta) (Series) 2001-09-0613:53:22View Series
Metta Guided Meditations (Series) 2001-09-0643:10View Series
Online Course: Five Hindrances Series (Series) 2001-09-066:42:52View Series
The Five Hindrances (Series) 2001-09-0617:27:19View Series
Dharma Talks on Metta (Series) 2001-09-0634:23View Series
Intention and Karma 2001-09-0246:01DownloadStream
Attention Meditation 2001-08-3049:02DownloadStream
Volunteer Appreciation 2001-08-2645:31DownloadStream
Independent Self 2001-08-1340:21DownloadStream
Self, Suffering and The Relational Self (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-08-0861:10DownloadStream
The Jewel That is Left (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-08-0435:19DownloadStream
Working With Fear 2001-08-0251:20DownloadStream
Q & A 2001-07-3038:22DownloadStream
Practice for Self and Others 2001-07-2951:21DownloadStream
Beliefs 2001-07-2263:32DownloadStream
Desire 2001-07-0243:53DownloadStream
Spiritual Practice 2001-07-0144:30DownloadStream
Solitude and Aloneness 2001-06-2854:20DownloadStream
Feeling Complete 2001-06-2147:12DownloadStream
Fear 2001-06-1850:50DownloadStream
Fear 2001-06-1747:56DownloadStream
Q & A 2001-06-1449:06DownloadStream
Completeness/Perfection 2001-06-1040:34DownloadStream
Q & A 2001-06-0448:41DownloadStream
Mental Noting 2001-06-0344:16DownloadStream
Intention 2001-05-3155:32DownloadStream
Forgiveness 2001-05-2843:56DownloadStream
Heart Sutra 2001-05-2155:26DownloadStream
Heart Sutra (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-05-2154:06DownloadStream
Heart Sutra 2001-05-2061:18DownloadStream
The Breath 2001-05-1756:49DownloadStream
Guided Meditation on the Breath 2001-05-1730:12DownloadStream
Death Penalty Discussion 2001-05-1447:09DownloadStream
Simplicity 2001-05-1344:17DownloadStream
Vesak Ceremony 2001-05-0744:56DownloadStream
Simplification - Jikoji Retreat 1 Fetter (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-05-0450:07DownloadStream
Wisdom 2001-04-3045:46DownloadStream
Introduction to Meditation: Week 5 (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-02-011:25:52DownloadStream
Mindfulness of Breathing (1 of 4) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-01-2757:18DownloadStream
Mindfulness of Breathing (2 of 4) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-01-271:19:42DownloadStream
Mindfulness of Breathing (3 of 4) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-01-271:19:09DownloadStream
Mindfulness of Breathing (4 of 4) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-01-2751:29DownloadStream
Introduction to Meditation: Week 4 (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-01-251:32:01DownloadStream
Introduction to Meditation: Week 3 (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-01-181:32:14DownloadStream
Five Faculties (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-01-1452:54DownloadStream
Not Self (Part 2) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-01-111:32:02DownloadStream
The Deathless (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-01-0745:45DownloadStream
NotSelf (Part 1) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2001-01-0445:31DownloadStream
Introduction to Meditation (Series) 2001-01-0113:28:50View Series
Loving Kindness (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-12-211:29:56DownloadStream
The Enlightenment of The Buddha (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-12-1831:42DownloadStream
Impermanence (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-12-1746:53DownloadStream
Retreat (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-12-1459:23DownloadStream
Q & A (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-12-0434:25DownloadStream
The Four Nobel Truths (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-11-3058:26DownloadStream
Silence (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-11-1946:20DownloadStream
Plays of Conceit (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-11-1337:48DownloadStream
Reconciliation (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-11-1232:33DownloadStream
Five Hinderances (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-11-0953:56DownloadStream
Conciet (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-11-0629:54DownloadStream
Practice for Life Life For Practice (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-11-0551:11DownloadStream
Introduction to Meditation: Week 5 (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-11-021:30:59DownloadStream
Demons (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-2931:07DownloadStream
Four Foundations (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-2848:48DownloadStream
Introduction to Meditation: Week 4 (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-261:28:38DownloadStream
Compassion (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-2344:12DownloadStream
Not-Self (2 of 3) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-211:32:00DownloadStream
Not-Self (3 of 3) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-211:10:52DownloadStream
Not-Self (1 of 3) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-211:28:10DownloadStream
Not Self (Part 1) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-211:26:41DownloadStream
Not Self (Part 2) (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-211:30:10DownloadStream
Fairy Tale Story (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-1243:50DownloadStream
Columbus Day (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-0942:06DownloadStream
Intolerance to Suffering (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-0951:26DownloadStream
Discussion (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-0841:39DownloadStream
Fairy Tale Story (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-10-0244:37DownloadStream
Seven Factors of Awakening (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-09-2543:45DownloadStream
Group Questions (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-09-2439:40DownloadStream
Ethics (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-09-2153:23DownloadStream
Q&A (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-09-1848:27DownloadStream
Sangha (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-09-1733:32DownloadStream
Metta (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-09-1440:48DownloadStream
Conscious Living (Archive Talk - Low Quality) 2000-09-0749:09DownloadStream
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