Jack explores how meeting our lives with a directness and simplicity helps bring the mind, body, and heart into unity.
This Dharma Talk 9/29/1983 at the Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.
“The spirit of the practice is a unification of the mind with the body and the heart, bringing them all together into one. In that unification, or collectedness, then it becomes possible, when the mind isn’t wandering in fantasy of past or future, to see directly and clearly.” – Jack Kornfield
In this Dharma Talk, Jack mindfully illuminates:
- Buddha’s simple wisdom: “In the seen, there is only the seen. In the heard, there is only the heard. In the sensed, there is only the sensed. In the thought, there is only the thought.”
- Meeting our practice and the world with a directness and simplicity; bringing the mind, heart, and body into unity
- Cultivating an “excruciatingly” precise awareness and paying careful attention so we can see our life process in a new way
- The three-sided crystal of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness/insecurity, and selflessness
- Suzuki Roshi and the blissful wisdom of simplicity
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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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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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