Doing One Thing at a Time by Gil Fronsdal To develop meditation practice on retreat, do just one thing at a time when you aren’t meditating. Throughout the day, whatever you are doing, just do that one thing. Give your attention wholly to the activity of the moment and see each activity through to its […]
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Community as Part of Retreat Practice by Gil Fronsdal Over the past 18 months or so, many people have been participating in online retreats in their homes, sometimes alone and sometimes with family or roommates who are not practicing. Once IRC begins offering residential retreats again, we expect that many will be once again coming
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Skillful Evaluation of Your Meditation Practice, Part Two by Gil Fronsdal This is the second of two articles on this topic of evaluating your practice.  The first article covered examining our motivations for practice, and understanding ourselves—these two might be said to constitute the context for our practice. This second article covers the practice itself—meditation instructions, aspects
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Practicing in Online Retreats at IRC by Gil Fronsdal An innovative opportunity in our modern technological world is the creation of online meditation retreats. Rather than traveling from our homes to attend a retreat at a retreat center, the retreat comes to our homes. While home retreats are not new, they have tended to be
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Skillful Evaluation of Your Meditation Practice, Part One by Gil Fronsdal Winter/Spring 2020 This is the first of two articles describing skillful ways to evaluate your meditation practice. The second article will be published in the next edition of the newsletter, this coming summer. This first article will cover examining our motivation for practice and
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Meditation Instructions on Retreats by Gil Fronsdal Central to a meditation retreat are the meditation instructions the teachers provide. The instructions are treasures, based on the cumulative meditation experience of many people, ultimately traced back to the meditation practice of the Buddha. They are taught as means to calm our agitation, understand our minds, heal
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Wise Perspectives for Retreat Practice by Gil Fronsdal A surprisingly high percentage of our happiness and woe is dependent on the viewpoints through which we interpret our experience, views which are often not only unexamined, but also unrecognized.  Operating invisibly, they become the source of further interpretations, conclusions and judgments we make about our experience, our
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Dharma Service on Retreat by Gil Fronsdal Many people are first motivated to participate in meditation retreats in order to deepen their own meditation practice or to address their personal suffering. At some point, this motivation can transform into a growing interest in supporting others to similarly deepen their practice and overcome their suffering. At
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Mindfulness of Breathing on Retreat by Gil Fronsdal “When mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated, it is of great fruit and great benefit. When mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated, it fulfills the four foundations of mindfulness. When the four foundations of mindfulness are developed and cultivated, they fulfill the seven factors of
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Listening to Dharma Talks on Retreat by Gil Fronsdal The daily Dharma talk is an important part of insight meditation retreats, especially if one listens with mindfulness, focus, and a clear idea of one’s purpose for listening. It’s possible to listen to a talk with the same dedication given to sitting and walking meditation. This
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