The Issue At Hand: Essays On Buddhist Mindfulness Practice

Fronsdal, Gil

ISBN 10: 061516286X / ISBN 13: 9780615162867

Published by Bookland, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Issue At Hand: Essays On Buddhist Mindfulness Practice
• Publisher: Bookland
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 061516286X
• ISBN 13: 9780615162867
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice. An inspiring and very accessible compilation of essays and edited talks on the Buddhist practice of mindfulness. As Gil Fronsdal states, "the search for the issue at hand is the search for what is closest at hand, for what is directly seen, heard, smelt, tasted, felt, and cognized in the present." Gil brings the practice of mindfulness not only to formal meditation but to all the varying aspects of every day life.

About the Author

Gil is the primary teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. He was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. Gil has an undergraduate degree in agriculture from U.C. Davis where he was active in promoting the field of sustainable farming. In 1998 he received a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he is part of its Teachers Collective. He is a husband and a father of two boys. You may listen to Gil's talks at www.audiodharma.org.