Plunging further into last week’s topic, Jack offers vulnerable perspectives on how sexuality and relationships play into our life and practice.
This episode for 1987 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed
“If one wants to understand karma, or one wants to understand virtue, ethics, or morality—which are equally important and profound in developing a spiritual life—the way to do it is very simple: it’s beginning to know, observe, feel, and understand what’s going on in our hearts as we act.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack vulnerably explores:
- Understanding karma, virtue, intention and action
- How so much of our sadhana and practice comes through our relationships
- Learning about ourselves and the universe through sex and relationship
- Sex and relationship as a form of opening and surrender, as well as commitment, offering, acceptance, growth, and healing
- Desire, grasping, reality, love, and the present moment
- Relationships as a place to find the foundations of mindfulness
- The nature of love as expression, growth, and unity
Ram Dass offers nuanced perspectives on sex and spirituality, in Here and Now Ep. 55
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.
Dive into Jack’s ongoing dharma offerings and transformational online courses on the new JackKornfield.com
Listen to more from Jack:
Tune into Ep. 109 of Heart Wisdom: This Too Shall Pass
Learn about Living with a Peaceful Heart in Ep. 91 of Heart Wisdom
Check out Ep. 90 of Heart Wisdom to learn about Healing Through Loving Awareness
Listen to more Stories That Open the Mind, Mend the Heart and Lead to Joy with Jack Kornfield in Ep.92 of Heart Wisdom
Tune into Ep. 102 of Heart Wisdom: The Wisdom of the One Who Knows
Check out Ep. 1 of Heart Wisdom to gain wisdom on Impermanence
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