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Naturalistic Buddhism with Gil Fronsdal

By Gil Fronsdal with James Shaheen · Tricycle Talks

44mReleased 12 Nov 2025Meditation, Philosophy
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Gil Fronsdal, guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, lays out his "naturalistic" reading of the Buddhist path—one that holds the practice close to its ethical and psychological core while setting aside cosmological commitments. He situates the position relative to traditional Theravada and contemporary secular Buddhism.

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