If you had only one year to live, what would you do?

If we remember non-clinging is the means to release, then we will be less inclined to cling to any state. Don’t cling to your happiness. Don’t cling to your sadness. Don’t cling to any attainment.
 
Gil Fronsdal, The Issue at Hand
Gil Fronsdal

Gil Fronsdal

Spirit Rock Residential Teacher

Gil Fronsdal has practiced Zen and vipassanā since 1975 and holds a PhD in Buddhist Studies from Stanford. Trained by Jack Kornfield, he is the founder and primary teacher at Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City. A husband and father, he is the author of The Issue at Hand and translator of The Dhammapada, among other notable Buddhist publications.