In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield offers a potent guided meditation designed for letting go into open, spacious awareness.
Taking Your Seat: Alertness, Ease, & Graciousness
What is it like to have a peaceful heart amidst the worldly winds of polarity? Welcoming you into a soothing guided meditation practice, Jack invites you find a stable seat where you can sit with upright alertness, as well as with a sense of ease and graciousness. Focusing the meditation around spaciousness, equanimity and compassion, Jack begins by priming us for reflection on the value of a peaceful heart.
“Let yourself find a way to sit that’s stable and comfortable, where you can sit upright with a sense of alertness, but at the same time a graciousness and ease like the king or queen on the throne. You take your seat here halfway between heaven and earth, in this human form, and invite a sense of stillness and openness.” – Jack Kornfield
Jack leads a ‘Just Like Me’ meditation for living in the heart of compassion, on Ep. 125 of Heart Wisdom
A Mind Like the Sky // Mindful Loving Awareness (6:30)
Resting awareness on the breath inside of and all around you, Jack welcomes you to allow a sense of openness to grow within your consciousness, growing vaster until you finally become the space of ‘mindful loving awareness.’ Noting the thoughts, breaths, sensations, and images coming and going like clouds in the sky, he reminds you that you are the vast, still consciousness which simply mindfully watches and loves it all.
“With each breath allow the sense of vastness and openness to grow. Make your mind like the sky—without boundaries, vast, open. You become the space of loving awareness, of mindful loving awareness.” – Jack Kornfield
Jack shares on Thich Nhat Hanh & how to keep a peaceful heart during wartime, on Ep. 144 of Heart Wisdom
Open, Spacious Awareness // Buddha’s Heart of Compassion (15:30)
After opening to deep Dharmic silence in the vastness of spacious awareness, Jack closes the meditation with reflections, gratitude, and blessings stemming from the Buddha’s great heart of compassion.
“You are the Buddha resting in vastness, seeing the arising and passing of all things with the great heart of compassion, peaceful in the midst of it all.” – Jack Kornfield
JoAnna Hardy offers a guided practice on tapping into choiceless awareness, on Ep. 99 of the Guest Podcast
