Skillful Thinking

I'll be presenting a distillation of this talk by Gil Fronsdal at the FHNN hosted meditation on Wednesday @ 4pm.

Generative and Non-Generative Thinking  

Gil has just returned from a 30-day silent retreat by himself and this is talk emerged from that. 

Right Speech

 

Less than 15 minutes each.  Really useful, central point of practice.

Language, Thinking, Talking, & Mindfulness

[written for a presentation the FHNN mediation group about 4 months ago]

While lots of living things have means of communication and some primates have demonstrated very rudimentary "language," we humans stand quite apart with our language abilities, the complexity of our languages, and the natural ease most acquire language in childhood.  Somehow we master words, phrases, tone, sentence structures, metaphors, poetry, prose, stories of fact and fiction, writing, talking, reading, etc.  In the 21st century we live in a sea of language coming at us in many forms everywhere.