Mudita (55) Choosing Joy
6/15/202613 min
This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2026.06.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California. Please visit our website at audiodharma.org.
Gil Fronsdal· Host0:08
Hello everyone and welcome to this new sub-series on appreciative joy. The joy that we can experience and share in a way with others that comes from our sharing their joy. Kind of this mutual kind of feedback. And it's a part of this wider series on love that's been going on now for many weeks. And I'll begin by saying that one of the forms of love in Buddhism, Dharma love, is a love that wants us to be free of suffering, wants us to be free of stress, free of fear, free of hatred and ill will. And that it is not a requirement, it's not an obligation to