Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Gil Fronsdal

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Last updated on November 20, 2024.

Gil Fronsdal is a Norwegian-born, American Buddhist teacher, writer and scholar based in Redwood City, California. He has been practicing Buddhism of the Sōtō Zen and Vipassanā sects since 1975, and is currently teaching the practice of Buddhism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Having been taught by the Vipassanā practitioner Jack Kornfield, Fronsdal is part of the Vipassanā teachers' collective at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He was ordained as a Sōtō Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and was a Theravāda monk in Burma in 1985. In 1995, he received Dharma transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center.

Born: 1954

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Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.

Gil Fronsdal

Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

Gil Fronsdal

If you want to attain peace, live peacefully

Gil Fronsdal

Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act

Gil Fronsdal

Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.

Gil Fronsdal

Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called seeds. The garden you grow depends on the seeds you plant and water. Long after a deed is done, the trace or momentum of the intention behind it remains as a seed, conditioning our future happiness or unhappiness.

Gil Fronsdal

Generosity is not limited to the giving of material things. We can be generous with our kindness and receptivity. Generosity can mean the simple giving of a smile or extending ourselves to really listen to a friend. Paradoxically, even being willing to receive the generosity of others can be a form of generosity.

Gil Fronsdal

You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.

Gil Fronsdal

People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices.

Gil Fronsdal

Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving

Gil Fronsdal

People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices. They tend to respond automatically, blindly influenced by their circumstances and conditioning. Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act.

Gil Fronsdal

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.

Gil Fronsdal

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

Gil Fronsdal

Repetition and ritual and their good results come in many forms: changing the oil filter, wiping noses, going to meetings, picking up around the house, washing dishes, checking the dipstick . . . such a round of chores is not a set of difficulties we hope to escape from so that we may do our practice, which will put us on the path. It is our path.

Gil Fronsdal

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

Gil Fronsdal

When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful.

Gil Fronsdal