Inviting you on a ‘Three Breath Journey,’ Gil explores mindfulness from the views of wellbeing, somatic inquiry, leisure, and as a wellspring of dharmic pleasure.
On this Dharma Speak stemming from Auckland Perception Meditation’s Cultivation and Perception Retreat livestream on 2/14/2022, Gil Fronsdal shares his non-meditation, the ‘Three Breath Journey,’ earlier than diving into matters like: when to be aware, mindfulness as leisure and wellbeing, mindfulness of the physique, and the best way to faucet into the Buddha’s inside wellspring of dharmic pleasure.
This discuss from Gil Fronsdal was initially printed on DharmaSeed.org
Three Breath Journey // When to Be Aware
To start this session on discovering a greater means of being, Gil Fronsdal opens by welcoming us all onto a journey – a ‘Three Breath Journey’ to be precise. On this quick non-meditation train, Gil invitations us past the lofty objectives our thoughts creates round lengthy and tough meditations—buying and selling that for a brief, refreshing, and persistently relevant second of being totally current for 3 easy breaths.
“Some folks after they begin meditating have all these concepts about what meditation is that generally interferes with the simplicity of simply being with the breath within the second. Some folks discover that this ‘Three Breath Journey’ is a means of placing apart meditation—concepts of the way it’s purported to be—and simply being quite simple and with the breath in-and-of itself—that there generally is a shift in three breaths.” – Gil Fronsdal
“In case you have a greater various than being aware, possibly don’t trouble being aware. However when mindfulness is the higher various, please be aware. Typically there are occasions—when if we’re trustworthy with ourselves—what we’re doing with our minds is just not essentially the higher choice.” – Gil Fronsdal
Mingyur Rinpoche displays a view of the open consciousness of non-meditation, on Ep. 73 of the BHNN Visitor Podcast
Mindfulness as Wellbeing & Rest (13:31)
If we all know there’s something higher to do—why don’t we do it? Providing contemplation round our frequent alternative to remain in rumination and preoccupation quite than selecting a wholesome choice just like the ‘Three Breath Journey,’ Gil helps us transfer previous our habits and sloth so we will start to reside from a greater means of being. From right here, he highlights the readability, presence, honesty, freedom, success, leisure, well-being, and dharma-joy of mindfulness.
“As we apply mindfulness and consciousness apply we begin appreciating an increasing number of what an important various it’s to different issues we could possibly be doing. As we really feel this various that we will do, we’re fortunate we all know one thing higher and we’re fortunate that we’ve a apply to method that higher means of being. It’s an amazing success.” – Gil Fronsdal
“I don’t transfer my thoughts to return to the respiratory; I welcome the respiratory again to my thoughts, my consciousness.” – Gil Fronsdal
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Wellspring of Dharmic Pleasure // Mindfulness of the Physique (30:33)
Shedding mild on Buddha’s outlined variances between sense pleasures and dharmic pleasures, Gil presents a path to an inside pleasure which isn’t depending on the situations of the surface world. Inviting us into the somatic expertise of dropping into our bodily physique and befriending it, Gil shares how this course of makes room for well-being and dharmic pleasure to move by means of us.
“How can we make room to expertise well-being so it has an opportunity to floor? One of many methods is to apply mindfulness of the physique. It seems that being current in your physique, and the flexibility to really feel your physique and relaxation within the somatic expertise, the physiological experiences of the physique, is a means we give the physique room for well-being to move by means of us. A deeper extra dharmic pleasure and happiness that’s attainable is skilled by means of the medium of our bodily physique.” – Gil Fronsdal
“The extra you’re in a position to do only one factor at a time, the possibilities are the extra of this deep dharmic pleasure you’ll be capable to really feel.” – Gil Fronsdal
Joseph Goldstein shares reflections on mindfulness of the physique, on Ep. 61 of the Perception Hour
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