Sunday, September 19 to Sunday, October 3, 2010
Hidden Villa, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
This retreat is currently full. New applicants will be placed on a waiting list and notified if spots open up.
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For senior students, minimum pre-requisite two 10-day Vipassana retreats
Gil has practiced Zen and Vipassana since 1975 and has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford. He has trained in both the Japanese Soto Zen tradition and the Insight Meditation lineage of Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia. Gil was trained as a Vipassana teacher by Jack Kornfield and is part of the Vipassana teachers’ collective at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 he received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He has been the primary teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California since 1990. He is a husband and father of two boys.