Offering listeners insights, stories, and guided imagery, Gil Fronsdal describes the idea of the self as an anchor.

This recording from the Insight Meditation Center was originally published on Dharmaseed.org

This week on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Gil teaches us about:

• Ideas of the self as an anchor
• The three characteristics of inconstancy, suffering, and not-self
• The Buddha’s views on the self
• How thinking about the self actually takes us away from the self
• Staying with the flow in meditation
• The suffering found within ‘me, myself, and mine’
• A dharma story about zen master Suzuki Roshi
• How most concepts are based on relationship and comparison
• The pain in basing our joy off of the comparison to others
• Conventions, constructs, and rules
• Becoming wise to the projections of the mind
• Trusting the practice

“The purpose of this deep meditation is to help us to become free, help us to lift up the anchors so we’re not held back, not limited, so we don’t set ourselves up to be washed over by the floods that come.” – Gil Fronsdal

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