Harmonizing to the ‘music of the spheres’ and sharing gardening tips from Buddha, a blissful Jack unveils the beautiful possibility of sudden awakening.
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“You don’t want to wait until you float out of your body when you die and look back and say, ‘Wow, that was an amazing incarnation, wasn’t it?’ You actually want to have it now.” – Jack Kornfield
In this fresh video episode, Jack blissfully illuminates:
- The wisdom of the Music of the Spheres
- The energies of the 2024 Solar Eclipse
- Alan Watts on why ‘life is like music’
- The enlightening present moment
- Harmonizing life’s opposites like the Tao
- Dancing with life’s changing rhythms
- To be married to amazement and mystery
- The beautiful revelation of sudden awakening
- Being at the still point of the turning world
- Sudden realization, gradual practice, and Zen
- Releasing from the body of fear
- Buddha’s gardening wisdom
- The fruits of inner well-being
“That’s what meditation does, it makes space. We step out of the thrall of our plans, thoughts, reactions, how it should be, what’s happened, and what should happen; and out of the fears and the confusion, sadness, excitement, and all those things; and we become the space of loving awareness that says, ‘Yes.’ It’s an act of love.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk originally took place 3/25/24 for Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. Sign up for Jack’s next one at JackKornfield.com/events
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.