Articles

Articles by Gil Fronsdal

• Anatta and the Four Noble Truths
• Awakening to Dependent Origination
• Buddha and Love, The
• Buddha As a Parent, The
• Buddha’s Teachings on Love, The
• Concentration
• Equanimity
• Ethical Sensitivity
• Five Faculties, The
• Five Hindrances, The (Handouts)
  • Hindrances to Clear Seeing
  • Sensual Desire as a Hindrance
  • Hindrance of Ill Will, The
  • Hindrance of Sloth and Torpor, The
  • Hindrance of Restlessness & Worry, The
  • Doubting Doubt
• How Mindfulness Works When Not Working
• Impermanence
• Intolerance of Suffering
• Investigation
• Mental Noting
• Many Ways to Sweep: A Story by Gil Fronsdal
• Mindfulness Meditation As a Buddhist Practice
• Much Ado about Nothing
• Nibbana
• Not-Knowing
• Patience
• Peace and Its Sacrifice
• Perfection of Truth, The
• Receptive Awareness
• Renunciation
• Responding to Tragedy
• Spectrum of Desire, The
• Stopping and Seeing
• Storms of Spiritual Life, The
• Theravada Approach to Spiritual Care of the Dying and the Dead
• Walking Meditation Instructions
• Working with Anger

Dharma Stories by Gil Fronsdal

• Abyss, The
• It Is All Empty
• Many Ways to Sweep
• Path, The

Sutta Translations

• Metta Sutta translated by Gil Fronsdal
• Anapanasati Sutta – MN 118 (PDF) translated by Gil Fronsdal
  • Alternate translation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
• Satipatthana Sutta – MN 10 (PDF) translated by Gil Fronsdal
  • Alternate Translations: Nyanasatta Thera , Soma Thera, Thanissaro Bhikkhu
• Kayagatasati Sutta – Mindfulness Directed to the Body – MN 119 (PDF) translated by Gil Fronsdal
  • Alternate translation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
• An Auspicious Day translated by Gil Fronsdal

Interviews & Commentaries by Gil Fronsdal

• A Broader Church - Dharma Life Interview    (French)
• Clear Seeing in Ten Years   (French)  (Spanish)
• Dana in the Western Insight Meditation Movement
• Emptiness in Theravada Buddhism
• Insight Meditation in the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
• Living Two Traditions - Tricycle Interview
• Theravada – The Way of Liberation
• The Treasures of the Theravada: Recovering the Riches of Our Tradition

Translations

Translations of Gil Fronsdal’s book, The Issue at Hand, can be found here.

French Translations

• Les Cinq Facultés
• Anatta Et Les Quatre Nobles Vérités
• Le Mouvement Vipassana : Communauté et Perspective (A Broader Church)
• Vipassana: Une pratique de méditation ou une traditions? (Clear Seeing in Ten Years)

German Translations

• Hindernisse der Klarsicht (The Hindrances to Clear Seeing)
• Sinnliches Verlangen als Hindernis (Sensual Desire as a Hindrance)
• Angst, aus dem buch Buddhismus für den Westen (Fear, from the book Buddhism in the West)

Other Translations

• Spanish:  Una Vision Clarificadora Para Diez Anos (Clear seeing in Ten Years)
• Vietnamese: Đức Phật dạy con như thế nào (The Buddha As a Parent)