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Ep. 284 – Guided Meditation: Breathing with Mindful Loving Awareness
8 april 2025 · 34 min
Leading a guided meditation helping us witness the play of our human existence from the loving awareness that we truly are, Jack invites us to uncover true freedom as our birthright. Lees meer
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In this episode, Jack delves into:
The true purpose of meditation and spiritual practice
Coming fully into the reality of the present moment
Becoming mindful loving awareness itself
Witness the play of our human experience
Uncovering true freedom as your innate birthright
Experiencing the present moment as loving awareness
Responding to the world with mindful loving courage
“Come into this present moment with mindful loving awareness, notice the play of our human experience, and discover we can take our seat with a compassionate and gracious heart with a freedom that is your birthright.” – Jack Kornfield
This recording is from Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Monday Night Talk and Meditation on 3/3/25.
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Ep. 283 – The Imaginal Cells of the Butterfly
2 april 2025 · 40 min
This episode was recorded on 3/03/25 as a part of Spirit Rock’s Monday Night Dharma Talk Series Lees meer
“You are the imaginal cells. You are the ones who are called to hold the vision of a wise society where people respect each other, where we care for the vulnerable, where we understand the universal teaching, ‘Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed.’ This is you.'” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack mindfully explores:
Staying centered amidst life’s struggles Stopping blame and “right and wrong
Navigating Late-Stage Capitalism in the 21st Century
The Great Turning as an opportunity to reset our lives as human beings
The Great Turning as a birth process—messy, painful, dangerous, and beautiful
Remembering your fearlessness amidst politics and news media Becoming “imaginal cells” of the butterfly
Trusting the constant renewal of life and nature Black Elk, Gary Snyder, and the power of loving the earth
Meditation and sitting with heartbreak
Dissolving guilt, fear, and doomscrolling
Carrying your light with nobility, respect, and dignity
Trusting the big picture, the vast cosmic view
Remembering who you are and living from it
The possibility of a new underground railroad
Recognizing that we are the imaginal cells of the world
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“Here we are, 21st century, late-stage capitalism, which has gotten to the place where there’s further extremes of rich and poor for exploitation. We’re at the time what Joanna Macy calls the Great Turning—the great opportunity really for us to reset our lives as human beings.” – Jack Kornfield
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Ep. 282 – Awakening Soul Force: Healing the World Through Your Unique Gift
25 maart 2025 · 34 min
Jack reveals how awakening your Soul Force—your inner strength, wisdom, and compassion—allows you to heal the world by offering your unique gift with courage and love. Lees meer
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In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack mindfully explores:
Uncovering your unique gift and bringing it to the world
Simple reflections of love amidst the reality of death
How the sword is always beaten by the spirit
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "Soul Force"
The power of facing our fear of death
Becoming a Spiritual Warrior of compassion
Cultivating the confidence to face any challenge
Speaking up for what matters to your heart
The cause of evil and how to stop it at it's root
The cause of abuse and how to stop it at it's root
Learning how to respond to the suffering of the world
Discovering freedom in yourself and the world around
Cultivating the ability to face ourselves, our pains and sorrows
Facing the truth of birth and death
The revolutionary act of connecting with nature
Connecting with the truth of the world
Bearing witness and finding your heart's unique response
Entering the world with freedom and love
How each and every action counts
A charming and funny Q&A section
Chanting the mantra, "Ah"
"Each of us has our own unique gift to bring when it's the right time. It can't be an imitation. You can't do it like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, or whoever you might admire—it has to be your way." – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk from 12/7/1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on Dharmaseed.
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Ep. 281 – The Paradox of Practice: When to Sit, When to Serve
19 maart 2025 · 37 min
Exploring the spiritual paradox of individual and universal responsibility, Jack helps us find balance between meditation and service in our daily lives. Lees meer
This Dharma Talk from 12/7/1992 at Insight Meditation Society was originally published on Dharmaseed.
In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack mindfully explores:
The paradox of individual and universal responsibility
What's the better spiritual practice—meditation or service?
What exactly is individual, and what is the universe?
Joanna Macy's painful yet healing trip to Chernobyl
Becoming stewards of each other, the earth, and the future
Distinguishing between freedom and it's near enemies
Near enemies as fostering separation; freedom as interdependence
How to respond to suffering authentically and helpfully
Creating change blossoming from the human heart
The radical act of "doing nothing and facing yourself"
Dealing with the homelessness problem, warfare, environmental destruction
Balancing "Don't just do something, sit there," and "Don't just sit there, there isn't time."
Choosing between inner practice and outward service
Following a true path with heart in this lifetime
Vimala Thakar, Ajahn Chah, and Maha Ghosananda as beacons of peace
The power of helping feed the hungry
Navigating the up and down, inner and outer, cycles of spiritual life
"Every act counts. Each one of us has the power to affect the world." – Jack Kornfield
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Ep. 280 –The Healing Breath: Reawakening the Body, Reconnecting with Life
12 maart 2025 · 39 min
Fostering the mind-body-heart connection, Jack shares how the healing breath reawakens the body and reconnects us with life. Lees meer
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In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack mindfully explores:
Using breath to live wisely and simply in this complex human existence
Good spiritual community as an island of peace and sanity
Seeing past negative fear politics and news media
A Charm to Use Against the Language of Politics
The Buddha on mindfulness of your life breath
Noting the subtle nuances of the breath in meditation
"Buddha in the palm of your hand" technique
Training the restless puppy of the mind
Using breath to reconnect body, heart, and mind
Short and simple guided breath practices
What the Cross and the Circle represent
Directing your breath to feel and open emotional wounds and dis-ease
Reawakening your body, and reconnecting with life, through breathing
"Most of the destruction that modern society has caused in the world is the result of the mind being disconnected from the heart and the body." – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk originally taking place on 11/2/1992 at Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 279 – Standing Up For Compassion: A Wise Rudder in Turbulent Politics
4 maart 2025 · 47 min
Standing up for compassion in this powerful new Dharma Talk, Jack offers a steady spiritual rudder for navigating turbulent politics with the heart of a Bodhisattva. Lees meer
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“It’s a time to get quiet and remember that you’re here for a beautiful purpose, oh Bodhisattvas. What better thing to do with your life?” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack mindfully explores:
Navigating this world's maelstrom of change from a deep spiritual rudder
Returning from his trip to Asia; landing in Los Angeles on fire
Samsara and the nature of uncertainty
Creating a wise society based on mutual care
Trading our personal and cultural anxiety for imagination and hope
Alison Luterman's heart-opening poem, Praise the Broken Promise of America
Using the Dharma to move past Liberal versus Conservative
How to help the vulnerable in the world
Remembering your best values as things change
Grounding yourself, steadying your heart, and remaining hopeful
Bringing peace to this world, developing metta, and supporting what's good
Taking the long view, living with integrity, virtue, and imagination
Joining together with your community to stand up for compassion
Being hopeful and helpful through difficult times
Living like a Bodhisattva—offering support, compassion, loving kindness
“Take the long view—your intention, heart, and mind in all the cycles of birth and death. That deep intention of wisdom creates what’s possible for a wise society. It becomes a rudder through difficult times.” – Jack Kornfield
“When a society treats its members with respect, cares for the weak and vulnerable among them and tends the natural world around… it can be expected to prosper and not decline.” – Mahāparinibbāna Sutta
This Dharma Talk was originally recorded for the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday Night Talk and Meditation on 2/10/25.
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Ep. 278 – Guided Metta Meditation: Becoming a Beacon of Kindness
28 februari 2025 · 36 min
“A powerful way of practicing metta is to invite in the feeling of love without specific words or images. You become a beacon of kindness. Then whatever arises as you sit—thoughts, people, images, concerns—will be held in that kindness.” – Jack Kornfield Lees meer
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This week on Heart Wisdom, Jack offers listeners instruction on:
Metta and invoking the spirit of love within ourselves
Holding all that arises during meditation with kindness
Letting our body have a sense of care and well being
Allowing ourselves to soften, relax, and rest easily
Feeling completely supported by the earth below us
Opening our hearts and minds via the metta sutta of loving-kindness
Suffusing the whole world with unobstructed, sublime love
“The ideal as you practice is to find your own way, to find what most naturally resonates with yourself as a gateway to open the heart.” – Jack Kornfield
This episode was originally recorded for the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation Livestream for Feb 2025.
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Ep. 277 – Falling Apart, Coming Together: Impermanence, Romance, and Attachment
19 februari 2025 · 39 min
In this engaging Q&A session, Jack and Trudy explore romance, impermanence, attachment, diffusing anger, manifesting your dreams using mindfulness, and more! Lees meer
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In Part 2 of this episode, Jack and Trudy dive into Q&A on:
Finding appreciation and wisdom in things “falling apart”
Accepting change, aging, impermanence
Entering the naked unknown of the wilderness, nature
The wisdom of swimming with dolphins in the ocean
Sending metta (loving kindness) to the world and those in positions of power
How to tend our romantic relationships and partnerships with mindfulness and care
Diffusing anger and learning how to communicate lovingly
Connecting from a place of vulnerability and presence
Moving past warfare, racism, violence, and blame
Learning how to communicate across differences
Noting the difference between your intention and it’s impact on others
Manifesting your dreams using mindfulness
“Attachment” in Buddhism vs Western Psychology
Working through trauma in a safe and mindful way
This talk originally aired on the Voices of Esalen Podcast:
The Voices of Esalen Podcast showcases in-depth interviews with the dynamic teachers and thinkers who are part of Esalen Institute. Hosted by Sam Stern, a former Esalen student and current staff member, the podcasts have featured engaging conversations with authors Cheryl Strayed and Michael Pollan, innovators Stan Grof and Dr. Mark Hyman, teachers Byron Katie, Mark Coleman and Jean Houston, Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy, and many more. Learn more at Esalen.org/story/podcasts
About Trudy Goodman:
Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats, engages in activism work, and teaches worksho…
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Ep. 276 – Healing with Love: Hopeful Wisdom for Difficult Times
12 februari 2025 · 35 min
Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman join forces in an exploration of Buddha’s eternal wisdom: ‘hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed.’ Lees meer
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“We start to sense that who we are is not just limited by the events of the world, but that we’re connected to something vast, mysterious, and greater.” – Jack Kornfield
In Part 1 of this episode, Jack and Trudy mindfully explore:
Loving Awareness and mindful response
Seeing the world with the eyes of a Buddha
Opening to that world with the heart of a Buddha
How the art of meditation is actually the art of love
The story of Maha Ghosananda, the Gandhi of Cambodia
Buddha’s eternal wisdom: Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed
Facing climate change, racism, warfare, refugees, injustice, and trauma
Dealing with our cultural anxiety, and saving ourselves from despair
Becoming the calm person on the boat who can show the way for all
Becoming a Bodhisattva, setting the compass of your heart for compassion
Standing up for what matters, and tending the world with beauty
Shifting our practice from unconsciousness to loving awareness
Suffusing mindfulness practice with tenderness and compassion
How we are all the same size when facing the vulnerability of our mortality
The Heart Sutra mantra: Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
Finding wisdom and comfort in “falling apart”
“Spiritually, we are all the same size, because we all are facing the vulnerability of our mortality.” – Trudy Goodman
“In community, in family, in our lives, in joy and sorrow, in birth and death—we’re, given the responsibility to hold ourselves in a web of love.” – Jack Kornfield
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Ep. 275 – Desire, Love, and Spiritual Passion
6 februari 2025 · 1 uur 5 min
Love is in the air, as Jack explores the nature of desire, relationships, and spiritual passion—offering wisdom on stabilizing the heart, navigating distractions, and awakening to the timeless and sacred. Lees meer
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“If you know what it’s like to really fall in love with someone, then you can begin to sense what it means to bring the full presence of attention to your life.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
The Buddha on mindfulness and awareness
Stabilizing the heart, mind, and body in the present
Overcoming distractions and difficult moods
Being aware of desires arising and passing
Chanda – spiritual passion, the desire for awakening
The connection between power, insecurity, and fear
How to stop feeding the hungry heart in unskillful ways
The difference between desire and love
Relationship, marriage, and staying in love
A moving love story from Thich Nhat Hanh
Reclaiming our humanity and animal nature
Reawakening mystery, gratitude, awe
Touching that which is timeless and sacred
Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of infinite compassion
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and living your fullness
Noticing what tempts you away during meditation
“What direction do our personal desires take us? It’s good to study them. As my teacher Ajahn Chah said, ‘It may be a very fast car, but you ought to look at what road you’re going down and which way it’s headed.'” – Jack Kornfield
“Perhaps what we most deeply desire is immensely simple—to reclaim our humanity, our animal nature that Jung talked about, the wondrous senses, the sense of the spirit of awe, the remembering, the reawakening of that sense of gratitude and mystery for life.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk recorded on 9/28/1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 274 – Listening with Your Whole Being: Honoring Life Through Presence and Simplicity
29 januari 2025 · 54 min
Rekindling the ancient art of listening, Jack shares how we can transform our lives through nourishing inner stillness and simplifying the mind. Lees meer
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“The Divine waits for us to taste the food and not just read the menu.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Reclaiming the ancient Art of Listening
Meditating like the Buddha in nature
How your breath reflects your life
Meditation, attention, and overcoming restlessness
The ways we keep ourselves busy
How to trust your human instincts
Reclaiming an intimacy with your senses
Noticing when we’re listening and when we’re not
Honoring others through your attention
Cultivating the humility of ‘Don’t Know Mind’
The mystery of life, death, love, consciousness
Nourishing inner stillness and simplifying your mind
Letting go into the unfolding present moment
The rather bizarre situation of having a human body
Our connection to nature, earth, the elements, and all of being
Finding the meditative space of no going forward, backward, or standing still
“To meditate is to remember, reclaim, reawaken the ancient art of listening.” – Jack Kornfield
“When the Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree on his night of enlightenment, it wasn’t to do, get, or make something, but to listen inwardly with all of his senses to the nature of this world that we are born into for a time.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk recorded on 9/21/1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 273 – The Search for Ajahn Chah: Embodying the Heart of Authenticity
22 januari 2025 · 55 min
In this defining talk, Jack shed's light on his adventurous journey to Thai meditation master Ajahn Chah, and how upon returning home, he had to learn to embody a heart of authenticity. Lees meer
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“Being with Ajahn Chah was being with a person who rested in their Buddha Nature, their own true nature. He was just himself. He was really at peace with himself. You could feel it from the energy of his presence, rooted like a great tree in the earth.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
His mystical journey to learn with Thai meditation master Ajahn Chah,
Needing to work his way down the chakras to fully live this human life
Sudden awakening versus gradual change on the spiritual path
Ramana Maharshi and liberation through facing one’s own death
How to live in your soul and dance your unique dance
What it’s like hanging out with monks covered in wild bees
Ajahn Chah’s tree-like quality of roundedness, freedom, and openness
Matching our thoughts and actions with our values
His first time experience rapture in meditation
The transformative aspects of therapy, bodywork, marriage, family
Ram Dass and the healing quality of presence
Navigating differences in our romantic relationships
Learning to acknowledge the pain and loss beneath our anger
Opening to life’s lessons of compassion, wisdom, and wakefulness
The gift of spiritual community and sharing our authenticity
Embodying the timeless eternal truth of mindfulness, intimacy, and wakefulness
“To love another person just as they are is the only kind of love that makes any sense.” – Jack Kornfield
“There’s an intimacy and a presence that is true about mindfulness: it’s either now or never.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk recorded on 9/14/1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published…
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Ep. 272 – The Art of Reconciliation: Cultivating Harmony Through Listening and Truth
15 januari 2025 · 57 min
Jack helps us heal conflicts, release defensiveness, and cultivate the harmony of wise relationships through the art of reconciliation, deep listening, and truth. Lees meer
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“When we read about western civilization, it is in our history books as predominantly a history of conflict—who fought whom, who took over what kingdom, country, or land from someone else and conquered and triumphed. That conflict is still with us in very obvious ways, whether it is in Los Angeles, or Yugoslavia, or Somalia, Ethiopia, or Cambodia. And so, when we look at human civilization with such a long history of conflict, the question comes, can we learn another way to live as humans?” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Buddhist teachings on community, conflict, and living harmoniously
If modern civilization is actually all that civilized
Aristotle on humanity’s weapons of wisdom and virtue
The historical evolution of human consciousness and compassion
Types of slavery, overt and hidden: physical, economic, political, clandestine
The spirituality of truly celebrating life in this present moment
Wise Relationship, living harmoniously, listening in a way that honors everyone
Creating a ‘wise culture’ built on honesty and integrity
How to truly apologize, forgive, reconcile, and renew
Wise mechanisms for diffusing conflict
How to stop being defensive and start listening
Reconciling conflicts in monasteries and spiritual communities
How the ‘art of listening’ begins with the ‘art of letting go’
Learning to cooperate in courage, fearlessness, and honoring
Navigating life from our ‘unarmed truth’ and ‘Soul Force’
“To be able to enter into a process of reconciliation in one’s family, community or body-politic, is to be able to learn to let go of our views, our ideas, how it should be, what we want, what we fear—which is …
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Ep. 271 – Diffusing Triggers, Reframing Trauma, and Surviving Suffering with Thomas Hübl, PhD
8 januari 2025 · 39 min
Opening the doorway to transformation, Jack and Dr. Hübl explore spiritual discernment, identity, “central casting,” overcoming nervous system triggers, reframing trauma, and more. Lees meer
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The ‘wisdom of insecurity’ is to learn that it’s okay to feel insecure—that it’s part of our human law—and to love anyway.” – Jack Kornfield
In Part 2 of this episode originally airing for Dr. Hübl’s ‘Spiritual Healing Journey Summit,’ Jack and Thomas mindfully explore:
Spiritual community, idealism, disillusionment, and healing spiritual injury
Jack’s experience “pressure testing” his teacher Ajahn Chah
Trading our “blind faith” for “spiritual discernment”
Living in joy with a free heart amidst it all
Ram Dass, identity, and “central casting”
Seeing past our identities/roles to our Divine Nature while still fully honoring them
Reframing “trauma” with Buddha’s lens of suffering
Healing the nervous system and it’s triggers
Expanding our loving kindness to encompass all beings
Walking through the doorway of transformation and dissolving the cosmos into love
How to deal with our trauma and learn to live with suffering
Reaching out and healing the part of the world we can touch
The Bodhisattva vow as fostering the awakening of the heart
Opening to the “wisdom of insecurity”
“Spiritual practice is to remember your true divine nature, and also your social security number, your particular role which ‘central casting’ has placed you in at this time.” – Jack Kornfield
"Disillusionment is part of the spiritual path, baby. It is! You have to see with the eyes of the Buddha to see the truth of suffering and greed and hatred, and also see that it's not the end of the story, that that's not who you are." – Jack Kornfield
About Thomas Hübl, PhD:
Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitat…
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Ep. 270 – Ritual as a Language and Gateway to the Heart with Thomas Hübl, PhD
1 januari 2025 · 39 min
Jack and Thomas explore how ritual serves as a powerful language for opening the heart and living joyfully through life’s challenges. Lees meer
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"Ritual and symbol become a gateway back to the heart to our deep connection. When we have that in spiritual life, things open up in a different way." – Jack Kornfield
In Part 1 of this episode originally airing for Dr. Hübl’s ‘Spiritual Healing Journey Summit,’ Jack and Thomas mindfully explore:
How to live joyfully through difficult times
Finding the wonder of “everyday grace”
Reducing suffering through spiritual practice
Western Psychology and Eastern Spirituality
Interconnection and opening to the great web of being
Relational mindfulness and communal mindfulness
Ritual as a language and gateway to the heart
How to talk with nature and speak for the trees
The transformation of having true mentors and guides
Service, activism, and navigating burnout
Paying attention and listening to each other and nature
"The nuclear waste of what you've been through can burn in some way that it becomes the fuel for energy and light. It gets transformed in the reactor of the heart and you have a power now." – Jack Kornfield
“No amount of nanotechnology, A.I., space technology, or biotechnology is going to save us. Because the source of hatred, war, racism, conflict, exploitation, and climate disruption is in the human heart. That’s where it starts and where it grows from. Therefore, the outer developments which are becoming really remarkable have to be matched by the inner developments of humanity.” – Jack Kornfield
About Thomas Hübl, PhD:
Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science.…
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Ep. 269 – Holiday Special Pt. 2 – A Lamp in the Darkness: Setting Intentions for the Return of the Light
24 december 2024 · 36 min
Shining a lamp in the darkness, Jack offers a heartwarming holiday story, guided meditation, angelic chant, and powerful intention setting ceremony for the New Year and beyond. Lees meer
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“May your holidays and the turning of the seasons bring new light, great love, wisdom, and understanding into your life, to all your touch, and across this beautiful blue-green globe.” – Jack Kornfield
In part 2 of this special holiday series, Jack merrily shares:
A heartwarming Christmas Dharma story to relax the mind
Learning the true and boundless joy of making others happy
A powerful “Just Like Me” two-person guided meditation practice
Transforming the world through seeing the beauty of those around us
Setting the compass of your heart for our highest good and intention
Creating your own New Year’s vow, and becoming a lamp in the darkness for those in need
A special blessing-cord ceremony—an intention setting ritual for the turning of the seasons, the New Year, and the returning of the light
The angelic, holy, chanting of the of the mantra, “Namoh”
“How do we respond to this world? You sit and you sweep the garden. You have the capacity as a human being incarnating in this life—with your measure of suffering and the beauty you have—to respond in extraordinary ways.” – Jack Kornfield
“I did a blessing cord ceremony 40 years ago together with Lama Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and somebody raised their hand and said to him, ‘What exactly do these protect you from?’ And he said, ‘Why yourself, of course,’ which is a main protection that human beings need.” – Jack Kornfield
This episode was originally recorded for the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation Livestream on 12/14/15. Learn more about Spirit Rock’s offerings. Join Jack’s next event.
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Ep. 268 – Holiday Special Pt. 1 – Rediscovering Your Secret Beauty and Sharing Your Special Gift
17 december 2024 · 43 min
In this cozy holiday special, Jack sheds seasonal tidings on how to rediscover the secret beauty within you and share your special gifts with the world. Lees meer
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“What you most deeply long for is who you are, is coming back to your own heart, to your own beauty, your own wellbeing that you were born with, to that secret beauty.” – Jack Kornfield
In part 1 of this special holiday video series, Jack merrily explores:
The spiritual meaning of the Winter Solstice, the turning of the seasons, and the holidays
How Jack’s teacher Ajahn Chah reacted when a Christmas Tree was put up in the Monastery
Reconnecting with the great mystery of the world and with each other
How to deal with your family with compassion, equanimity, and peace
Seeing the secret beauty behind the eyes of everyone you meet
Moving past the body of fear, the small sense of self
The paradox of spiritual practice: you’re perfect and there’s room for improvement
Rediscovering the love and secret beauty within you
Cultivating dignity, presence, generosity, clarity, integrity, meaning, compassion, trust
Bringing the mind and body together in the present
Loving awareness and entering the wisdom stream
Manifesting love and understanding into this world
A Hawaiian story on how to bring your special gift
Ram Dass, Mother Teresa, service, and allowing yourself to be taken care of
Moving past fear politics and becoming a force of connection and love
“To meditate, more than anything, is an invitation to remember, to quiet ourselves, to touch back in to this truth, this reality beyond the busyness, fears, and confusion we have because we’re human.” – Jack Kornfield
“Meditation and spiritual practice is not meant to be a grim duty, it’s meant to be a rediscovery of the love and secret beauty that’s within you.” – Jack Kornfield
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Ep. 267 – Wise Speech, Speaking with Intention, Listening with Compassion
10 december 2024 · 52 min
Exploring how compassionate speech and mindful listening can transform our lives, Jack shares how we can navigate culture’s web of lies by using the energy of Wise Speech to truly awaken. Lees meer
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“[Wise Speech] is really about compassion—it’s being aware of the power of speech, and using it to express what is conscious and what brings freedom.” – Jack Kornfield
Exploring the third step of the Eightfold Path, Jack mindfully shares on:
Wise Speech / Right Speech as a factor of awakening
Compassion, non-harming, and embodying Buddha Nature
Ram Dass’s “Hopi-Hippie Be-In” and what it means to ‘speak the truth’
Navigating culture’s and advertising’s web of lies
Speaking from your deepest truth and knowing
Buddha and using the energy of speech to awaken
What it means to truly listen to another human being
Compassionate communication and listening
Discerning your intention and motivation when talking to people
Speaking like a Buddha and treasuring our speech
The simple pleasure of talking and communication
Using your words for justice, truth, love, and wisdom
Letting go of pride and needing to be right
A “Wise Speech” guided meditation
Chanting the seed syllable “Ah”
“The key to listening and speaking wisely is the intention—our intention to learn, to discover, to hear something that we haven’t understood.” – Jack Kornfield
“The possibility, if we are to live an awakened life, is to foster that speech that comes from our deeper knowing.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk recorded in 1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 266 – Election Decompression: 'A Loving Presence Amidst It All' Guided Meditation
3 december 2024 · 28 min
Offering decompression from post-election intensity, Jack shares a guided meditation helping us maintain a mindful loving presence amidst it all. Lees meer
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“The seasons turn, elections come and go, whole nations and civilization arise for a time and pass. You are the witness to consciousness, the loving awareness that sees the mystery of arising and passing, and holds it all with love.” – Jack Kornfield
In this fresh episode, Jack leads a guided meditation on:
Decompressing from the intensity of the election
Taking your noble seat amidst life’s Eight Worldly Winds and play of opposites
Feeling a stable and centered presence wherever you are
Resting in a quiet, open, mindful loving awareness
Feeling a true sense of loving kindness right here
Becoming consciousness itself, vast, timeless, spacious
Witnessing the arising and passing of all, and holding it all in love
“With loving kindness, notice the energy of the mind—the stream of thoughts and plans, ideas, worries, imaginings, analysis, understandings, stories, images—a river of thoughts, feelings, images, and words. You can hold it all in loving kindness and say, ‘Thank you for all that work, I’m okay just now, you can relax.'” – Jack Kornfield
This episode was originally recorded for the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation Livestream on 11/11/24. Learn more about Spirit Rock’s offerings at SpiritRock.org. Join Jack’s next livestream at JackKornfield.com/events
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Ep. 265 – Navigating Politics, Impermanence, Suffering, and the Great Turning of the World
26 november 2024 · 59 min
Reflecting on the election, Jack explores how we can most mindfully and lovingly dance with impermanence, suffering, and ‘the great turning’ of the world. Lees meer
This episode was originally recorded for the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation Livestream on 11/11/24. Learn more about Spirit Rock’s offerings here. Join Jack’s next livestream event here.
“It’s not about an election one way or the other, they come and go. There’s such huge other forces happening right now—climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion energy—huge possibilities and huge problems. As T.S. Elliot says, ‘In my end is my beginning.’ Everything that turns offers a new openness and beginning for something else.” – Jack Kornfield
In this fresh episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Navigating the election and politics in a changing world
Returning to the basics of Buddhism and living a wise spiritual life
Quieting the mind, tending the heart, listening to the cries, and seeing with the eyes of wisdom
What Ajahn Chah’s wisdom for the election results would be
Opening to change, honoring impermanence, facing suffering
Annica – the wisdom of uncertainty
Navigating the “Great Turning” of the world
Shifting from exploitive and consumer consciousness to one of interdependence and mutual care
Facing our suffering, warfare, racism, aging, death, loss, and change
The Zen view of the “dew drop” world
How annica, dukka, anatta connect with nirvana and unshakeable freedom
To end the illusion of separation
Politics as a form of ritualized warfare
Standing up like Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita
Human history as also containing compassion, courage, and sweetness
Finding refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
Living from unconditional love and a freedom from fear
The transformative power of community
Our inexorable connection to all the great Saints, Gods, and to the Great Mystery
“You get to choose your spirit. No matter what.” – Jack Kornfield
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Ep. 264 – Right Attitude, Wise Aspiration, Mindful Thought
20 november 2024 · 50 min
Helping us reflect on our daily habits and feelings, Jack shares how Right Attitude, Wise Aspiration, and Mindful Thought allow us to uncover the sweet joy of living in The Way. Lees meer
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“With Wise Attitude we begin to discover the power of kindness, the joy in not grasping, the delight in generosity, the ease in letting go, and the immediacy of freedom and liberation that is here in every moment.” – Jack Kornfield
Exploring the second step of the Eightfold Path, Jack mindfully shares on:
Right Attitude, Wise Thought, the second step on the Eightfold Path
Seeing directly the true power of mind and heart
Overcoming habitual patterns of thought, action, and attitude
The Buddha on nobility, integrity, and the heart
Overcoming greed, hatred, and delusion
Knowing the sweet joy of living in The Way
Wise Aspiration and the path of the Bodhisattva
Reflecting on our attitude around death
Rumi, Stephen Levine, Martin Luther King Jr, Suzuki Roshi, and Alan Watts
Taking what life gives us as “grist for the mill” of awakening
Examining spiritual teachings in our own life (what works, what doesn’t?)
Trading ‘protection and defensiveness’ for ‘openness and curiosity’
Accepting each moment as an unrepeatable miracle
Beginner’s Mind and Don’t Know Mind
Openness, respect, and compassion
“It is knowing what is true that brings ourselves freedom. We don’t get free by making ourselves free.” – Jack Kornfield
“It is only through mercy, through the kindness of compassion, that reconciliation happens, that what’s locked in suffering begins to grow and breathe new life.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk recorded in 1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 263 – Wise Understanding and the Wisdom of Insecurity
12 november 2024 · 53 min
Intersecting the Buddha’s ‘Wise Understanding’ with Alan Watt’s ‘Wisdom of Insecurity,’ Jack illuminates the path of discovering lasting happiness. Lees meer
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“Spiritual life is not about possessing or finding security, but rather it’s discovering what Alan Watts called, ‘the wisdom of insecurity,’ the capacity for freedom and compassion of heart, no matter what the circumstances. Right Understanding is a willingness to dedicate ourself to awakening, no matter how conditions change.” – Jack Kornfield
Exploring the first step of the Eightfold Path, Jack mindfully shares on:
The Buddha, Enlightenment, the Eightfold Path, and Four Noble Truths
How to live a wise, mindful, happy, and loving life
The Middle Path as the pathway to freedom
Wise Understanding, the first step on the Eightfold Path
Suffering, it’s causes, and how to alleviate it
Where happiness actually comes from
Working with clinging, grasping, aging, aversion, fear
Impermanence, change, and the wisdom of insecurity
Spiritual Direction and the journey of the soul
The seed of awakening your Buddha Nature
Understanding the Law of Karma
Finding nirvana through our current circumstances
Having compassion for what puts us to sleep
Tending your heart to tend the whole world
“Buddha saw that the cause of happiness and the cause of suffering is not so much in life itself, but in the way that we relate to life.” – Jack Kornfield
“Right understanding tells us that we can dedicate our life to something beautiful.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk recorded in 1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 262 – The Liberated Heart: Shifting From Trauma to Loving Awareness with Thomas Hübl, PhD
5 november 2024 · 45 min
Discover how to shift from trauma to loving awareness through mindfulness, conscious healing, and compassionate activism with Jack Kornfield and Thomas Hübl, PhD. Lees meer
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“Who you are is so much more than your trauma, you are consciousness itself.” – Jack Kornfield
In Part 2 of this episode originally airing for The Collective Trauma Summit in 2021, Jack and Thomas mindfully explore:
Developing the skills to heal our trauma
Jack’s time with meditation master, Maha Ghosananda
The powerful connection between activism and spirituality
Avoiding burnout, finding balance
Transforming from skeptical to mystical
Navigating the traumas in the Middle East
Digesting our traumas
Waking up from auto-pilot
Expanding your window of tolerance
How to face racism, war, economic disparity, the environment, etc
Mindfulness, consciousness, and loving awareness
“The whole notion that spiritual practice doesn’t have anything to do with activism is a fiction.” – Jack Kornfield
“Every breath you take is the breath of the starlings and the breath of the earthworms and the soil. We’re all inter-breathing it together. That’s how it works, that’s what life is.” – Jack Kornfield
About Thomas Hübl, PhD:
Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma.
He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and o…
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Ep. 261 – Healing Trauma: Interweaving the Individual and Collective with Thomas Hübl, PhD
26 oktober 2024 · 41 min
Jack Kornfield and Thomas Hübl, PhD explore the dimensions of trauma, individual and collective healing, and the transformative power of community. Lees meer
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“Almost every great spiritual tradition knows that we can’t do it alone. Because part of the revelation is that the whole notion of separateness is a constructed fiction—that we are one another’s bond, we are one another’s glory, that we are life itself—and that sense of separation dissolves in mystical ways, in the deepest most profound therapeutic ways.” – Jack Kornfield
In Part 1 of this episode originally airing for The Collective Trauma Summit in 2021, Jack and Thomas mindfully explore:
The essence of trauma, how it gets locked in our body, and how to finally release it
The merging point of Eastern Spirituality and Western Psychology
The way intimate relationships help bring up exactly what we need to work on
How our trauma work can lead to spiritual healing
The various dimensions of healing trauma
Deep and moving stories of alchemizing trauma
Creating a safe container for our healing and collective healing
How interdependence in a group naturally leads to healing
The importance of community (satsang, sangha)
How Stan Grof’s holotropic breathwork is a psychedelic experience
Grounding and integrating our our practice into mindful loving awareness
An ancient Buddhist parable on merging the physical world with the spiritual
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Ep. 260 – Creating a Sacred Container for Practice
15 oktober 2024 · 38 min
Jack guides us in creating a sacred container for spiritual practice—a space where, like a garden, our inner life can be nurtured, allowing us to transform life’s challenges into paths of awakening and growth. Lees meer
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“Much of our spiritual life, to mature, needs a sacred container for transformation. It needs this container that is greater than our small self—the body of fear and the mind of desire—something that honors a larger spirit, a larger truth.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Creating a free and protected space, a sacred container for your practice
How the very difficulties in our lives are what actually awakens us
Using our hardships as a crucible for uncovering our own goodness
Rumi’s flavorful and delicious “vegetable fable”
Learning how to stay centered on your cushion
The mirror-like quality of meditation practice
Meeting our practice with commitment, constancy, patience
Honoring the cycles of nature and the universe
Feeling our feelings to heal our grief
Learning the value of staying with things, even through difficulty
Choosing the Dharma over the body of fear and mind of desire
Nurturing the sacred garden within yourself
The power of prayer and feeling blessed
“In a way, sitting is nothing more than looking in the mirror. You sit and face whatever arises.” – Jack Kornfield
“It almost doesn’t matter what we pick, who our partner is, or what we choose to do, as long as it’s reasonably wholesome. What matters is how much we can give to it, of our sincerity, of our earnestness, of our heart.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk recorded on 8/1/1991 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 259 – Cycles of Dharma: The Stream of Interbeing
8 oktober 2024 · 42 min
Guiding us through the ever-changing cycles of life, Jack uncovers the profound truth of our interconnectedness as boundless and unique expressions of the Dharma. Lees meer
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“We see that there isn’t one way to practice or to live, but many cycles, seasons, and expressions of Dharma and truth.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Natural wisdom of the rainforest ecosystem
Discovering the truth of our inexorable interconnection
Seeing clearly the reality of change and impermanence
Interconnectedness within the flowing stream of interbeing
Spiritual maturity and recognizing the patterns and cycles of life
The many unique expressions of Dharma, spirituality, and truth in this world
Wisdom from Buddha, Dipa Ma, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, HH the Dalai Lama, S.N. Goenka, and Tibetan cave-dwelling yogis
Bringing your compassion to the environment, politics, social action, homelessness, education, etc
Meditation as a radical act: facing head-on the forces of greed, prejudice, hatred, and delusion
Finding your unique dharma and way to help the world
Life and spirituality as a process of death and rebirth over and over again
Uncovering a deep ‘joy for no reason’
How the “light and love” in meditation is actually literal
Untangling the knots of our attachments to live in inner freedom
A poem dedicated to the struggles in the Middle East
Discovering your capacity to awaken, and your unique gift
“It’s not about perfection of oneself or the world, but it’s learning to live in a simple way and touch one moment after another with wisdom, understanding, compassion, and presence.” – Jack Kornfield
“Wisdom is a state of our being in our heart. And to live in that way takes humility, a surrender or commitment, a trusting heart, a going into the unknown.” – Jack Kornfield
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Ep. 258 – Enlightenment as Intimacy: Where We're Going is Here
1 oktober 2024 · 35 min
Speaking to progressing on the spiritual path, Jack explores enlightenment as true intimacy, and shares how: where we’re going is actually here. Lees meer
“Where we’re going is here, and what we’re after doesn’t exist in time.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Our idealistic/romantic notions of the spiritual path
Consciousness, impermanence, and working with human emotions
Wisdom stories of Ajahn Chah, Jack’s accomplished Thai meditation teacher
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the legend of building a Spiritual Amusement Park
Progress and patience along the spiritual path
Enlightenment as intimacy with all things
A guided meditation practice reflecting on life, death, and good deeds
Transforming the the world with one small act of kindness at a time
Honoring our own beauty and goodness
How compassion is characterized by true intimacy
Recognizing and coming to our spiritual maturity
Living like a Bodhisattva, and what it really means to ‘save all beings’
Alchemizing extreme suffering, trauma, and grief into compassion, forgiveness, and service
“Enlightenment is to be intimate with what’s here.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk from 1/3/1991 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 257 – Radical Wisdom: Living Life as a Gesture of Love
24 september 2024 · 53 min
Jack unfolds the radical wisdom and healing teachings of the great Buddhist sage Atīśa on living this dreamlike life as gesture of love. Lees meer
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“If life is like a dream, make it a beautiful one.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Radical wisdom from the 7 Verses of Atīśa – one of the greatest Buddhist sages
A moving story about the deep transformative power encased within committing an act of truth
The nature of timeless awareness and the witness
Exchanging “spiritual trading cards” with Ram Dass
Humor, listening, stillness, and spiritual perspective
Not being swayed by outer circumstance
Learning what really matters in this life
Living with an honest and compassionate heart
Emptiness and considering all phenomenon to be dreams
Not brooding over the faults of others
Noticing our inner waterfall of thoughts, feelings, sensations
Becoming medicine for others and the world
Looking through the eyes of mercy
Being grateful to everyone and everything
Always relying on joyful and peaceful mind and heart
Don’t expect a standing ovation for your spiritual work or service to the world
“Who you are is what matters most—and who you are is awareness having this amazing life journey.” – Jack Kornfield
“Let your life be a gesture of love.” – Jack Kornfield
This episode was originally recorded on 11/20/23 for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. To join Jack's next livestream, head to JackKornfield.com/events
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Ep. 256 – 'The Happiness of Peace' Guided Meditation
17 september 2024 · 30 min
In this fresh guided meditation, Jack invites you to rest your mind and heart to uncover the authentic happiness encased within true peace. Lees meer
This Dharma Talk originally took place for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation on 11/23/2024. To join his next livestream, please check out Jack’s events calendar.
“There is no greater happiness than peace.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack leads a guided meditation on:
Peace as the highest happiness
Finding ease, stability, stillness, and presence
Receiving whatever arises with kindness and compassion
Inviting thoughts and emotions to quiet
Resting in mindful loving awareness
Uncovering a peaceful mind and full heart
“Feel how the earth you are sitting on supports you completely in its steadiness.” – Jack Kornfield
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Ep. 255 – Listening to the Song of the Present Moment
10 september 2024 · 58 min
Listening to the song of the present moment, Jack uncovers how to dance with life’s dynamic rhythms along the harmonizing path to inner-freedom. Lees meer
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“The rhythm of your breath is no different than the rhythm of the stars.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
The art of listening to the song of life, birth and death
Why it can be so tough to actually “Be Here Now” like Ram Dass
How love connects to the present moment
Alan Watts, music, dance, and harmonizing to the universe
Feeling the rhythms of your breath and body
Learning to dance to life’s dynamic music
Staying open and avoiding spiritual bypass
Looking at our body and life clearly and directly
The power of attention, noting, and spaciousness for diffusing our judgements and emotions
Buddha’s discovery of the Middle Way, and why he stopped fighting himself
Dealing with the unfinished business of grief, loss, loneliness, wounds
How to handle worries or fantasies that keep looping over and over
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the tenderness and fearlessness of an Awakened Heart
Why Buddha focused on humans as ‘five processes,’ rather than personalities
Letting go of our rigid sense of self and diving into the fluidity of life
Non-grasping and how even enlightenment is a problem
Discovering the true path to liberation
Death, dying, and a reading from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
“To listen is to be awake in the present without moving away from or running away from what’s actually here.” – Jack Kornfield
“The only place to actually love another person, or a tree, or a living creature, or the earth itself, is when we’re here in the present.” – Jack Kornfield
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Ep. 254 – Healing the Unfinished Business of the Heart
2 september 2024 · 36 min
Revealing how to calm the mind through meditation, Jack shares wisdom on self-acceptance, trust, and healing the unfinished business of the heart. Lees meer
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“Don’t live in the mind, rest in the heart and let the mind come and go as it will. This is discovering your Buddha Nature.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Working with the ‘unfinished business of the heart’ – grief, sorrows, longing, wounds, loss
Honoring life’s ‘ocean of tears’ with love and kind attention
Cultivating the courage to allow your heart to be broken
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the tender heart of a warrior
Self-acceptance, allowing yourself to feel, and reawakening a trust in yourself
Healing the mind by seeing clearly and not taking it so seriously
Resting the in heart and letting the mind come and go
Discovering Your Buddha Nature, your fundamental ground of being
The technique of seeing the world as enlightened, and the path as yours
The healing encased within understanding emptiness, selflessness, and letting go
Meditation as a truly courageous act
“The problem with the mind mostly is that we take it seriously.” – Jack Kornfield
“Healing of the mind is when we can hold in our hearts all that arises, and sense a rest and a goodness, a wholeness in us.” – Jack Kornfield
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This episode recorded in 1991 was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 253 – Healing Through Meditation: An In-Body Experience
28 augustus 2024 · 34 min
Exploring healing through meditation, Jack shares on kundalini, addiction, suffering, and the transformation of having an ‘in body experience.’ Lees meer
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“You have heard of ‘out of the body experiences,’ but what we’re after is something more unusual and important, an ‘in the body experience.'” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:
Finding strength, wakefulness, and compassion amidst it all
The Coconut Monk and the Jesus-Buddha connection
Finding compassion and joy despite suffering and war
Healing—what it is, how it arises, and how we can connect with it
Listening and respect as the ground for healing
Finding and living a path with heart
Mindfulness, breath, attention, noting, and the Buddha
Meditation and having an ‘in-body experience’
Kundalini and opening the energy body
Learning to handle both pleasure and pain
Buddha and finding the Middle Way
The healing of reconnecting with our senses and world around us
What addictions really mean in an addicted society
Facing our suffering as the gateway to the precious mystery of life
Reading children’s direct messages to God
“There’s a healing that comes just in reconnecting with the senses and the world around us.” – Jack Kornfield
“As we begin to practice together, we can sense that meditation and spiritual work is to bring a heartfelt awareness to our life, and out of this there comes an awakening or opening, which we call healing.” – Jack Kornfield
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This episode recorded in late December 1991 was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 252 – The Miracle of Awakening: Finding Freedom in Everyday Life
20 augustus 2024 · 47 min
Deeply unveiling the Buddha’s transformative miracle of awakening, Jack provides a comprehensive guide to finding freedom in everyday life. Lees meer
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“We’re asked to discover in this dance the possibility of awakening in the midst of our life, to turn what we do into something sacred.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
What happened to the Buddha when he sat under the Bodhi Tree
What Buddha’s enlightenment means for the world
Bodh Gaya and the possibility of awakening through nature
Buddha’s path as a yogi, and how he dealt with his spiritual powers
Buddha's miracle of awakening and education
Reflections and questions from the Buddha for how you are living
Keeping freshness and “beginner’s mind” in your practice
Parenting, schooling, and the different styles of education
Finding freedom in the difficulties and direct circumstances of your life
The real possibility of awakening in the midst of life
The Ten Paramitas, Buddhism’s Ten Perfections
What walking meditation is actually about
Why Thich Nhat Hanh does everything slowly and mindfully
Patience, listening, and presence
Spiritual life as the education of awakening
Listening deeply for the Tao, Dharma, truth
“Spiritual life kindles in us an interest, an attention, a passion to awaken.” – Jack Kornfield
“Meditation is the art of doing what we do and bringing our senses, our heart, our whole being to that.” – Jack Kornfield
This episode recorded on 10/01/1990 was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 251 – The Listening Heart
13 augustus 2024 · 56 min
In this fresh Dharma Talk, Jack reveals how listening from the heart can empower you to transform yourself and the world. Lees meer
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“Difficult times call on our best spirit.” – Jack Kornfield
In this fresh episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Navigating life skillfully through difficult times
How we can change ourselves and the world through true listening
The two dimensions of mindfulness: Sati (mindful presence) and Sampajanna (mindful response)
How deep listening leads to compassionate response
Using our difficulties as doorways of opportunity to help us awaken
Reflecting on how we respond to the troubles of the world
The art of listening and how it brings us into the present moment
How taking a “sacred pause” leads to more possibilities
The childlike playfulness and joy between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Jack tells a transformational and moving story of Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, the miraculous Tibetan physician.
How all the problems and conflicts of the world are symptoms, and the solution is in the human heart
Activism, service, and helping with an open heart
Listening deeply to sense the universal truths of reality
The powerful prayer of Black Elk, the mystical Lakota medicine man
Listening inwardly, tending the heart, and honing your intuition
“The very difficulties you have are the place that truly awakens the heart.” – Jack Kornfield
“Quiet the mind, take time, tend the heart, listen inwardly, listen to one another, listen to the earth—and you will know what to do.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk originally took place for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation on 4/15/24. To join his next livestream, please check out Jack’s events calendar.
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Ep. 250 – The Practice of Meditation with Jeffrey Mishlove
6 augustus 2024 · 34 min
In this special episode originally airing on television’s Thinking Allowed series, Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Jack Kornfield about meditation, mindfulness, and self-acceptance. Lees meer
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“The purpose of meditation is to make people happy.” – Jack Kornfield
In this special television episode, Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Jack about:
How western psychology and science fits together with eastern spirituality and meditation
Whether Jack preferred getting his Ph.D. or his time at the Buddhist monastery
The three aspects of Buddhist practice: generosity, ethics/virtue, training of heart/mind
How what we practice, positive or negative, grows in our life
Spiritual bypass and mediation as an escape
Vipassana meditation and seeing clearly
Overcoming the “near enemies” in Buddhism
Equanimity, balance, centering, and fearlessness
Meditation in action and engaging mindfully with the world
Facing our fears and confronting ourselves in meditation practice
Self-acceptance and learning to care for oneself
Not being so afraid of what’s painful
Uncovering the basic mechanics of meditation
Releasing tensions, unskillful concepts, and our limited sense of self
Psychic abilities and intuition
Awareness and moving past our thoughts
Using meditation to relate deeper to your inner life
“Meditative awareness has a healing quality to it.” – Jeffrey Mishlove
“One of the tenets of Buddhism is that the heart, body, and mind can all be trained. That is, if you practice something, it will gradually grow in your life.” – Jack Kornfield
About Jeffrey Mishlove:
Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, an accomplished radio and television interviewer, and one of the most erudite and articulate personalities on television. Jeffrey holds the only doctoral dip…
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Ep. 249 – Mindfulness: The Gateway to Liberation
30 juli 2024 · 59 min
Unraveling the mystery of who you truly are, Jack reveals mindfulness as the gateway to liberation within the ever-changing river of life. Lees meer
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“Mindfulness, in the Buddhist tradition, is said to be the gateway to liberation, the gateway to that which is eternal, to the timeless or the deathless.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Mindfulness as the gateway to liberation
The Buddha’s Eightfold Path and the Middle Way
Sacred attention, receptivity, and sensitivity
The prayer of Mad Bear, a magical Iroquois medicine man
Overcoming worry in the present moment
Rumi’s transformational poem, The Guest House
Awareness of breath, body, mind states, feelings, dharma, and the laws of nature
Using mindfulness as a vehicle to discover who we really are
Eternity, time, timelessness, change, and becoming deathless
What it was like when Thich Nhat Hanh visited Spirit Rock
Entering the “river of life,” humanity’s collective pains, joys, etc
Dealing with attachment, aversion, grief, and suffering
Working spiritually with our dreams
Stepping out of the bureaucracy of ego, thought, and mind
The freedom of identifying with “the witness”
Liberation as both practical and radical
“Reality comes out of nothing, exists according to certain patterns, and then disappears. To know this frees us. To not know it, we are bound. This recognition brings us face to face with the mystery.” – Jack Kornfield
“To become mindful is to become free, to have the capacity to step out of the rat race, the speed, the complexity and be who we are, be true to our hearts. There comes a great balance and ease with that. In any moment, we stop the war, we stop the conflict, we come back to be as the Buddha sits, as the Buddha walks, as the Buddha speaks, where we are, just present and alive.” – Jack Kornfield
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Ep. 248 – Sacred Effort
24 juli 2024 · 55 min
Exploring how to direct energy in a wise way, Jack shares how embracing Sacred Effort nourishes joy, ease, beauty, equanimity, mindfulness, and loving kindness in your life. Lees meer
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"Right Effort, or Wise Energy, most fundamentally is the effort to pay attention, the effort to be present, awake, and see what is true in front of us. Out of all the kinds of efforts we can make, the most fundamental wise effort in spiritual life is to be where we are and see it clearly, to be conscious, or mindful." – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Directing the energy of your life to be awake, aware, and present
Seeing the Eightfold Path as a lotus or mandala
Carlos Castaneda, impeccability, and becoming a spiritual warrior
How to wake yourself up from sleepwalking through your life
Having a full heart, deep attention, and clear seeing
The two levels of spiritual friends and spiritual practice
Using suffering to develop a wise heart
Remembering death and impermanence
What Jack taught his daughter about death
Bowing to our difficult emotions and moving on
Disentangling ourselves from greed, fear, and obsession
Nourishing equanimity, ease, joy, beauty, and loving kindness
Tending each moment as if you were planting a seed
Balance and the Buddha stringing the lute
Ramana Maharshi and the wisdom of letting go
Making your life and activity an expression of the Tao
"The teaching of Right Effort or Wise Effort is a reminder of our nobility. It is a reminder of the human inspiration of spirit not just to get through our lives, but to honor it, to respect it, to be present for it, to delight in it." – Jack Kornfield
"Unclench the heart, steady yourself, and be present for things as they are, and then your activity becomes an expression of your awakening, it becomes…
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Ep, 247 – Living the Dharma
16 juli 2024 · 1 uur
Revealing how to smoothly navigate the cycles of spiritual life in openness, stillness, and intimacy, Jack explores the transformative beauty of living the Dharma. Lees meer
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“There are different cycles. They are natural for us. We breathe in and out. Our heart opens and closes. Your heart isn’t supposed to stay open all the time, even flowers close at night. So don’t get some idea you’re supposed to be some certain state or some certain way. It’s more about flexibility, listening, and honoring what cycle you are in in your life.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Navigating the cycles of spiritual life
Spiritual practice as a voyage, a journey
Openness and the necessity of letting go
What we can learn from the change of seasons
Cultivating the courage to live a spiritual life
Rumi’s poem of the wisdom of the bird in the trap
The peace of rejecting nothing whatsoever
How Jack had to work his way down the chakras instead of up
Embodying and experiencing your feelings
Stillness, simplicity, intimacy and reconnecting with the earth
A perspective-shifting Buddhist meditation on death and good deeds
Overcoming self-judgement and unworthiness
Non-attachment and commitment in relationships
A tantric master’s wisdom on overcoming burnout
The Dalai Lama’s surprising advice to Jack
“When you look back over your life, what really matters is, ‘How well have I loved?’ And that love is never done in generalities. It’s always done in a moment with a tree, or a spider, or a person that you meet, or a person close to you.” – Jack Kornfield
“In some way in life, that’s all that people around us want if you look—people mostly just want to be listened to and acknowledged.” – Jack Kornfield
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Ep. 246 – The Simplicity of Goodness
9 juli 2024 · 49 min
Jack Kornfield delves into the simplicity of goodness and virtue in a talk spanning Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Amma-ji, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Napoleon, and Rumi. Lees meer
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“I believe within us, within the human heart and human consciousness, is an innate love of honesty and a joy in virtue, straightforwardness, and the simplicity of goodness.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Buddhism, virtue, and the Five Precepts
Ahimsa – the blessing of non-harming
The chilling note Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche wrote when he escaped Tibet
Taking a fearless moral inventory
Honesty and the simplicity of goodness
What Buddha learned in his past lives
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and standing up for truth
Adi-Sila – spontaneous or innate virtue, the shining of the just heart
The Tibetan Buddhist perspective on reincarnation
Jack’s meeting with “hugging saint,” Amma-ji, archetype of the Divine Mother
Finding your Buddha Nature, Tao, and Dharma
Rumi’s brilliant poem about ducks
Interdependence and connectedness
Deep philosophical questions and contemplations from Jack
Napoleon, the sword, and the spirit
“Meditation or spiritual life asks us to look at our actions and pay attention to how we actually live.” – Jack Kornfield
“We’re all in it together, we’re all connected, we all support one another.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk recorded on 6/1/1990 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 245 – Monastic Life Insights with Pema Chödrön and Ajahn Sumedho
5 juli 2024 · 1 uur 33 min
Teaching a nature retreat amidst softly chirping birds and cooling rain, Jack, Pema Chödrön, and Ajahn Sumedho illuminate joyful insights of monastic life. Lees meer
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"Mostly what draws people to monastic life in the healthiest and best sense is its joy." – Jack Kornfield
In this special outdoor retreat, Jack, Pema Chödrön, and Ajahn Sumedho explore:
Chanting the powerful seed syllable mantra, "Ah"
Joys and misconceptions of monastic life in modern times
Why someone would take vows and become a monk or nu
Kabir's poetry, being human, and walking the spiritual path
Sexuality and celibacy in spiritual communities
Relating to both ultimate and relative reality
Dealing with the body in physically taxing situations
Working with injustice, inequality, and hierarchy within monasteries and spiritual institutions
The nature of change and how our present creates our future
Open-heartedness and open-mindedness
Living the Dharma every second of our existence
Letting our issues be our teachers
A surprise Q&A appearance from Heart Wisdom family, Brother David Steindl-Rast, along with Ajahn Sundara, and Sister Columba
"Quite clearly the future is the result of how we work with our minds now. To the degree that we open our hearts and minds to the present moment, that creates our future." – Pema Chödrön
"I like to reflect that the Buddha only taught two things: suffering and the end of suffering." – Ajahn Sumedho
About Pema Chödrön:
Pema Chödrön is a Buddhist teacher in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa. She served as the director of Karma Dzong, in Boulder, until moving in 1984 to rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to be the director of Gampo Abbey. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche asked her to work towards the establishment of a monastery for western monks and nuns. Check out her new book, How We Live Is How We Die, and learn more at PemaCho…
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Ep. 244 – An Autobiography of Trauma with Peter A Levine, PhD
25 juni 2024 · 1 uur 28 min
Jack and trauma expert, Peter A Levine, PhD, map the path to healing through imagination, curiosity, somatic experiencing, and loving awareness. Lees meer
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“Healing has to be coming together through the minute particulars in the body and in the story that’s actually our experience and not some idea about it.” – Jack Kornfield
In this fresh conversation, Jack and Dr. Levine dive into:
Mapping trauma and the path to healing suffering
A relaxing Jack “Just Here: Guided Meditation” on loving awareness
How An Autobiography of Trauma led to Peter’s powerful healing journey
Working with the astrological and Jungian archetype of Chiron, the Wounded Healer
Somatic Experiencing and the roots of healing trauma in the body
The transformative aspects of meeting trauma with loving kindness and persistence
Curiosity as a necessary factor of enlightenment
How the gift of Jack’s childhood trauma led him to discover Buddhism
Imagination and Peter’s mystical meet-ups with Albert Einstein
Miracles, intuition, and psychic premonition/knowing
What Jack shared with his scientific-materialist atheist father on his deathbed
Our inseparable connection and recognition that it’s always “us” in this web of life
“The whole notion that we are separate is a fabrication. We are in a field of consciousness.” – Jack Kornfield
About Peter A Levine, PhD:
Dr. Peter A. Levine has worked in the field of stress and trauma for over 40 years, is the developer of the Somatic Experiencing method, and founder of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education. To connect more with Peter’s teachings, pick up a copy of his illuminating book, An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey, and sign up for his upcoming classes and programs at SomaticExperiencing.com
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Ep. 243 – The Music of the Spheres
18 juni 2024 · 39 min
Harmonizing to the 'music of the spheres' & sharing gardening tips from Buddha, a blissful Jack unveils the possibility of sudden awakening. Lees meer
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"You don't want to wait until you float out of your body when you die and look back and say, 'Wow, that was an amazing incarnation, wasn't it?' You actually want to have it now." – Jack Kornfield
In this fresh video episode, Jack blissfully illuminates:
The wisdom of the Music of the Spheres
Energies of the 2024 Solar Eclipse
Alan Watts on why 'life is like music'
The enlightening present moment
Harmonizing life's opposites like the Tao
Dancing with life's changing rhythms
To be married to amazement and mystery
The beautiful revelation of sudden awakening
Being at the still point of the turning world
Sudden realization, gradual practice, and Zen
Releasing from the body of fear
Buddha's gardening wisdom
The fruits of inner well-being
"That's what meditation does, it makes space. We step out of the thrall of our plans, thoughts, reactions, how it should be, what's happened, and what should happen; and out of the fears and the confusion, sadness, excitement, and all those things; and we become the space of loving awareness that says, 'Yes.' It's an act of love." – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk originally took place 3/25/24 for Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. Sign up for Jack's next one at JackKornfield.com/events
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Ep. 242 – Disentangling Your Illusions
12 juni 2024 · 33 min
Revealing how to disentangle your illusions and let go of old identities, Jack paves the way to the mystical present moment. Lees meer
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“Part of the joy of selflessness is that as we become selfless much greater forces of what life is move through us.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Disentangling your illusions
Opening to the paradox of self and no-self
The yogic practice of asking, “Who am I?”
This mystical present moment
How the entire universe is inside your mind
Experiencing selflessness
Why you can’t just ‘no-self’ it away
Moving past your inner-critic, shame, and unworthiness
Listening to, accepting, and loving the shadow
The strength of being grounded on Earth
Working with meaninglessness
Letting go of old identities
Love as the work of a lifetime
“You can’t just ‘no-self’ it away.” – Jack Kornfield
“All that you need to do is to keep coming back to the present and what needs to open in you will. You can really trust that.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk estimated to be recorded on 4/23/1990 was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 241 – The Paradox of Self and No-Self
4 juni 2024 · 34 min
Exploring life as a flowing, dynamic process, Jack shares the jewel of Buddha's awakening by unraveling the paradox of self and no-self. Lees meer
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"Each of those sets of words, 'self,' and 'no-self,' are concepts or ideas or words that we use in a very crude approximation of pointing to some mystery of this process of life that's neither self nor no-self." – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:
Unraveling the paradox of self and no-self
The Jewel of the Buddha's Awakening
Anattā (selflessness) and how it connects with respect
Tales of a Magic Monastery
Living in the reality of expansion and contraction
Why Ajahn Chah shared 'self' and 'no self' both aren't true
The word "happy/sad" in Japanese
Opening to our life as a flowing, moving process
Becoming aware of selflessness
Interdependence, interconnection, codependent arising
Learning to respect ourself and nourish beneficial qualities
Developing yourself while also "losing yourself"
Discovering your True Self
The importance of integrating our spiritual practice into our lives
Learning to live in your body and love well
"To be really present is to connect with the mystery." – Jack Kornfield
"You develop yourself as you lose yourself." – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk estimated to be recorded on 4/23/1990 was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 240 – How to Unlock True Abundance
28 mei 2024 · 51 min
Sharing the blueprint for how to unlock true abundance, Jack reveals the secrets of letting go of greed, embracing generosity, and appreciating simplicity in life. Lees meer
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"Abundance isn't about how much you have, but how much you appreciate. – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
How to let go of our greed and live in true abundance
The Buddhist notion of "dana" – generosity, service, open-hearted caring
Greed as a strategy of impoverishment, rejection, and incompleteness
Transforming our 'endless wanting' into a beneficial awakened dance with the world
Expressing the Tao, the harmony of the universe, through our being
The Dharmic alchemy of the Bodhisattva
Meditation, listening, and finding out what we truly want in this life
Where Suzuki Roshi meets Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
How abundance of the spirit connects with simplicity rather than things
A personal story of Jack taking his unique Bodhisattva Vows in the Rocky Mountains while teaching at Chögyam Trungpa's Naropa University
Taking your strong, grounded, noble seat that can handle it all
How being there for others is abundance in their life
The generosity and delight of authentically giving – things, space, silence, listening, attention, commitment, honesty, smiles, blessings
Ram Dass and Maharajji's lesson of "feed people, love people."
Is "selfless service" actually selfless?
"Abundance of the spirit doesn't mean things; it means discovering a kind of simplicity of our life where we're abundant in any circumstance." – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk estimated to be recorded on 3/1/1990 was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 239 – Heart As Big As the Sky
22 mei 2024 · 35 min
Unveiling how to grow your heart as big as the sky, Jack shares the spiritual antidote for aversion, negativity, and fear. Lees meer
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"Let your heart be as big as your whole experience, like the sky." – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Overcoming aversion by "bringing it into your heart" rather than your rational mind
Touching into emotions, fears, and judgements with compassion instead of aversion
Using techniques like "noting/naming" for moving past intense feelings
Loving your negatives states as you would love your own child
Seeing clearly the karma, value, and consequence of your personal patterns
Who would you be if you dropped your opinions, views, identity?
Growing your heart to the size of the sky
Practicing the 'art of letting go'
Learning to live in the reality 'the Now'
Why Buddha had a better time than most
Painting as a doorway to spiritual experience
Transmuting difficulties by dropping our resistance to them
How to hold healthy views without being attached to them
"In this space of Now, it's not necessary to have fear. In this place of Now, we can rest." – Jack Kornfield
"If we want to create peace, or if we want to live free from greed, hatred and delusion, the place to start is in ourselves." – Jack Kornfield
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This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 1/1/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 238 – Freeing Yourself From Fear and Opinion
14 mei 2024 · 32 min
Illustrating how to free yourself from fear and opinion, Jack reveals how to overcome suffering by cultivating a pure heart. Lees meer
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"The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there." – Robert M. Pirsig
In this episode, Jack skillfully illuminates:
Skillful ways to free yourself from stuck views and opinions
Ram Dass's teaching advice to Jack
Balancing life's sufferings with life's joys
Zen wisdom on how to drop your views
Accepting what you see and rejecting what you think
Overcoming suffering by living with a pure heart
Buddha's 'Fire Sermon' teachings
The way attachment connects to fear, and how to get to the root
How views and opinions keep you separate, ego-focused, and defensive
Working with racism and fear by imbibing wakefulness and mindfulness
Overcoming opinions and and views by the method of noting/naming
This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 1/1/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 237 – Discovering Peace Within Yourself
7 mei 2024 · 54 min
Uncovering how to find joy and freedom in any situation, Jack shares the roadmap for discovering peace within yourself. Lees meer
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“Peace is the cessation of your struggle, it’s putting down the burden and letting things be as they actually are.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
Learning to be at peace with yourself and the world
How to meditate when it feels like you can’t meditate
The way emptiness connects with compassion
Reconciling where peace meets struggle
Peace as an internal state you can bring with you
Being Here Now, opening to life fully, and becoming intimate with all things
How we can find joy, liberation, and freedom in any situation
Dharma stories of the Buddha as well as the Bodhisattva Vimalakīrti
Coming to terms with the First Noble Truth of suffering, disappointment, and change
The transformative power of meeting life exactly as it is
What we can learn from both a “Duck Meditation,” “Goose Poem,” and a Tibetan Prayer
Love and it’s connection with courage
“We can’t come to rest because we’re at war with what’s actually here.” – Jack Kornfield
“To enter into the unknown is really to enter into the moment.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 12/01/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 236 – Sacred Reflections with Brother David Steindl-Rast and Frank Ostaseski
30 april 2024 · 1 uur 4 min
Jack and the ‘Grandfather of Gratitude,’ Brother David Steindl-Rast, delve into sacred reflections on death, where Buddha meets Jesus, the power of compassion, the positive side of grief, and beyond. Lees meer
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“The process of grieving that breaks this little heart, which closes itself in itself, opens us to the heart that we all share, the one heart that we all have in common.” – Brother David Steindl-Rast
In this sacred dialogue, Jack, Brother David, and Frank Ostaseski reflect on:
How Christianity and Buddhism fit together spiritually
The compassionate smile of Buddha meeting the sacred heart of Jesus Christ
The positive side of grief: opening to the collective heart
Death and grace in both traditions
Deconditioning from a difficult mother
Harnessing the power of your common sense
A funny story about the Pope, and how to awaken to who we already are
Jack’s journey to the Temple of the Coconut Monk
How to handle pain like a Burmese Master
How to forgive yourself and overcome remorse
Diffusing suicidal tendencies by cultivating self-compassion
Guided meditations and sacred chants from Jack and Brother David
“In a meditative way, one of the big pieces of being able to love, or touch, or open, or live, is really the work of forgiveness, grace, and receiving yourself in all of your complexity and loving.” – Jack Kornfield
“Compassion, loving kindness, and understanding are our true nature, our true state.” – Jack Kornfield
This conversation recorded on 6/30/1988 was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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Ep. 235 – From Psychedelics to Mindfulness with Louie Schwartzberg
24 april 2024 · 41 min
Fantastic Fungi's visionary director, Louie Schwartzberg, joins Jack to explore the profound connection between psychedelics and mindfulness. Lees meer
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“You can’t separate psychedelics from life.” – Jack Kornfield
In this fresh conversation, Jack and Louie spelunk the depths of:
The connection between psychedelics and spirituality
Psychedelics as a gateway to wonder, curiosity, and the sacred
How tripping on psychedelics informed Louie’s filmmaking
Albert Einstein and psychedelics as the intersection between art and science
The universe and life as a constant transformation of light energy
Buddha’s “Flower Sermon” and Zen Master Suzuki Roshi’s “Beginner’s Mind”
Jack “exchanging maps” with famous LSD researcher, Stanislav Grof
Studies showing the combination of psilocybin mushrooms and Louie’s time-lapse nature imagery as a powerful therapeutic tool for helping addiction and PTSD
The importance of “set and setting,” community, and integration
How psychedelics actually fit into the Buddhist precepts
Honoring biology and the feminine aspects of nature
The gifts of sacred attention and loving awareness
Finding beauty wherever you are, and how Louie’s films heal by sharing patterns of nature for the soul to connect with
This conversation was originally recorded on 3/29/24 by Banyan Together – an online mindfulness community started by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. To join the community and learn more, visit BanyanTogether.com
“A lot of the work I do is to make the invisible visible. And that’s the perfect description of what a psychedelic journey is like, making the invisible visible.” – Louie Schwartzberg
“We live in a culture that’s almost defined by the absence of the sacred. And so we feel this yearning, this intuitive wish to connect—whether it’s going high in the mountains, or making love, or taking psychedeli…