About Gil Fronsdal:
Gil Fronsdal is currently teaching the practice of Buddhism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Having been taught by the Vipassan? practitioner Jack Kornfield, Fronsdal is part of the Vipassan? teachers' collective at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He was ordained as a S?t? Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and was a Therav?da monk in Burma in 1985. In 1995, he received Dharma transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center.