AudioDharma: Gil Fronsdal's most recent dharma talks
Oct 1, 2026 · 31 min · 5 segments
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2026.10.01 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so…
Gil FronsdalHost
Hello and welcome to this week of considering wise speech, right speech, beneficial speech.
Not, not condemn medit-- uh, thinking or feel like we have to stop thinking entirely, but rather to stop thinking distractedly.
Stop thinking about things that have nothing to do with here and now, and the here that's right here in our meditation.
And the now that's so now that, uh, we're not so caught up or concerned with, um, past and future meditation.
Just how we can find our way here to be with our experience in a settling way, a peaceful way, uh, a, a liberated way.
And so to have our thoughts, our thinking be about the meditation, about our direct experience, and to be attuned to the impact we have through our thoughts.
As we think about things, what impact does it have on our body, our hearts, our mind? And that's true for any thinking.
But when it's d-done for how we think meditatively, it means that we're very sensitive to how we're thinking about the meditation itself and where that thinking comes from.
Maybe the deepest place or the most central place within us, the most peaceful place or the calmest place, the most intimate place within that's below the layers of reactivity and beliefs and stories that we can often live in.
And, um, [clears throat] but also think in ways that is affirming for our maturity.
Think in ways that [clears throat] expresses some confidence and [clears throat] sense of rightness to be here and present, and to pay attention to the impact of our thoughts.
Do we think in ways, as we meditate, that undermine us, that diminishes us? That where we treat ourselves maybe as, uh, incapable or that we need a lot of reassurance and compassion as if we're not really able to manage on our own.
Or do we treat ourselves harshly and critically, as if we're wrong and not doing it right? Instead, to treat ourselves with dignity, with value, with respect.
Hello and welcome to this week of considering wise speech, right speech, beneficial speech.
Not, not condemn medit-- uh, thinking or feel like we have to stop thinking entirely, but rather to stop thinking distractedly.
Stop thinking about things that have nothing to do with here and now, and the here that's right here in our meditation.
And the now that's so now that, uh, we're not so caught up or concerned with, um, past and future meditation.
Just how we can find our way here to be with our experience in a settling way, a peaceful way, uh, a, a liberated way.
And so to have our thoughts, our thinking be about the meditation, about our direct experience, and to be attuned to the impact we have through our thoughts.
As we think about things, what impact does it have on our body, our hearts, our mind? And that's true for any thinking.
But when it's d-done for how we think meditatively, it means that we're very sensitive to how we're thinking about the meditation itself and where that thinking comes from.
Maybe the deepest place or the most central place within us, the most peaceful place or the calmest place, the most intimate place within that's below the layers of reactivity and beliefs and stories that we can often live in.
And, um, [clears throat] but also think in ways that is affirming for our maturity.
Think in ways that [clears throat] expresses some confidence and [clears throat] sense of rightness to be here and present, and to pay attention to the impact of our thoughts.
Do we think in ways, as we meditate, that undermine us, that diminishes us? That where we treat ourselves maybe as, uh, incapable or that we need a lot of reassurance and compassion as if we're not really able to manage on our own.
Or do we treat ourselves harshly and critically, as if we're wrong and not doing it right? Instead, to treat ourselves with dignity, with value, with respect.
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