Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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Ep. 181 – The Tenderness of Listening Mar 22, 2023

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Teaching us about breath work and presence, Jack Kornfield guides a mindfulness meditation and discusses the beauty of listening.

"You are not the body, you are the mindful loving awareness that notices this body with kindness and care." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode Jack Kornfield offers us:

A guided mindfulness meditation
Tools to relax and experience presence
Breathing techniques for full body awareness
Ways to develop the capacity to listen
Advice on working with trauma
Ways to thank our fears

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Ep. 180 – One Dharma with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein Mar 14, 2023

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Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joseph Goldstein explore the emergence of Western Buddhism and balancing faith with wisdom.

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"In the Buddhist tradition it's said that one of the prayers one might make is: May I be born in circumstances that I may experience the Dharma that will bring me to awaken the heart of boundless compassion and discover inner freedom." – Jack Kornfield

"That kind of questioning which isn't cynical and isn't arrogant but is really wondering, really wanting to know the truth for oneself, I think of as an essential component of faith." – Sharon Salzberg

"Even in those first few minutes, what I discovered was there was a way to look into the mind as well as looking out through it. To me that was revelatory." – Joseph Goldstein

In this episode Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joseph Goldstein touch on:

The formation of the Insight Meditation Society
The emergence of Western Buddhism
The balance of faith and wisdom
Starting small with meditation
Being the product of our conditioning
Having compassion for the human predicament

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Ep. 179 – Feminine Face of Dharma Feb 27, 2023

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In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield teaches us about fostering femininity in our dharma practice.

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In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

The relationship of birth and death
Loving deeply by opening our hearts, bodies, and mind
Moving from the masculine to the feminine
The power of forgiveness

"Part of what's happening to practice is that it is becoming balanced with a greater emphasis of the feminine...instead of independence there's more teaching of interdependence, of relationship to one's body, relationship to the earth." – Jack Kornfield

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Ep. 178 – Ocean of Breath Feb 13, 2023

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In this episode, Jack Kornfield helps us discover how the ocean of breath can lead to greater compassion for all.

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"With the opening of breath comes a spaciousness or a healing quality which is that we can allow ourselves to hold in compassion, with a kindness of heart, all that arises." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

Breath as the movement of spirit
The cycle and rhythms of life
Developing awareness of the breath
Noticing our senses

This 1994 talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

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Ep. 177 – Intention and Purpose in Practice Feb 07, 2023

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By telling stories of the Buddha, Jack Kornfield directs us on the purpose of practice and the laws of Dharma.

"What we repeatedly direct our mind to in this society is consumerism and materialism and addictions of different kinds. What we direct ourselves to, we get. For better or for worse." – Jack Kornfield

This talk from Jack Kornfield 1/4/1994 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

The will to do
Skillful action
The mind as a mirror
Birth stories of the Buddha
Renunciation
Awakening to the law of Dharma

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Ep. 176 – The Dharma Body Jan 30, 2023

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In simple, heartfelt presence, Jack Kornfield teaches us about coming into the dharma body.

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"You can see it in your life. It's helpful to be aware when you drive, or if you paint or you do computer programming or you make love, or you write poetry, or you garden. Mindfulness, I declare, is all helpful. With that presence is the path to freedom, to awakening." — Jack Kornfield

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

Stories of Thich Nhat Hanh
Becoming the Buddha
Cosmic Breakthroughs
Navigating Death
Mindfull Awareness

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Ep. 175 – Intention to Awaken Jan 24, 2023

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Jack Kornfield describes the Buddha's vow to awakening and how we too can set a daily intention to awaken.

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"An intention creates our life. Thought manifests or leads to deeds, deeds develop into habit, habit hardens into character and character shapes our world." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

The small, intimate choice to awaken
Collective awakening
Intention in practice
The interplay of mind and body

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Ep. 174 – Intention and Transformation Jan 18, 2023

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Moving beyond our small sense of self, Jack Kornfield introduces us to the ways intention, love, and acceptance can transform us.

Amidst our ever-changing lives, we can find the patterns which form from our hearts and realize the source of who we are.

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"Our heart is the garden into which we plant seeds and nourish them. Depending on our intention, gradually, we shape the patterns of our lives. What's important then is not so much what we say or do, but what is the intention with that? " – Jack Kornfield

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Ep. 173 – Death as an Advisor Jan 11, 2023

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Reflecting on impermanence, Jack Kornfield explains that despite our physical frailty our spirit can never truly die.

Where can we go when we die? Jack Kornfield explores the recycling of energy, our limitlessness beyond death, and how death enables us to live more presently.

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"There's this amazing thing with death that there is both less of someone and yet more of them. There's some way in which you can walk in the woods and they are there to speak too. Being with death slows us down, it softens us, it makes us more gracious." — Jack Kornfield

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Ep. 172 – Mindfulness of Death Jan 04, 2023

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Mindfully navigating death, we learn from Jack Kornfield how to appreciate the vulnerability of one's final moments on earth.

Jack Kornfield describes the truth death pushes us to face and how keeping an awareness of the inevitable aids us in living fully while we can.

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"Mindfulness of death is powerful because it begins to bring abut a deep questioning, a profound shift of identity. In the face of death, who are we?" — Jack Kornfield

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