Unveiling how to grow your heart as big as the sky, Jack shares the spiritual antidote for aversion, negativity, and fear.
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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
This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 1/1/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
“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
About Jack Kornfield:
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, studying as. a monk under the Buddhist master Ven. Ajahn Chah, as well as the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies.
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Tune into Ep. 109 of Heart Wisdom: This Too Shall Pass
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