Exploring healing through meditation, Jack shares on kundalini, addiction, suffering, and the transformation of having an ‘in body experience.’
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“You have heard of ‘out of the body experiences,’ but what we’re after is something more unusual and important, an ‘in the body experience.'” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:
- Finding strength, wakefulness, and compassion amidst it all
- The Coconut Monk and the Jesus-Buddha connection
- Finding compassion and joy despite suffering and war
- Healing—what it is, how it arises, and how we can connect with it
- Listening and respect as the ground for healing
- Finding and living a path with heart
- Mindfulness, breath, attention, noting, and the Buddha
- Meditation and having an ‘in-body experience’
- Kundalini and opening the energy body
- Learning to handle both pleasure and pain
- Buddha and finding the Middle Way
- The healing of reconnecting with our senses and world around us
- What addictions really mean in an addicted society
- Facing our suffering as the gateway to the precious mystery of life
- Reading children’s direct messages to God
“As we begin to practice together, we can sense that meditation and spiritual work is to bring a heartfelt awareness to our life, and out of this there comes an awakening or opening, which we call healing.” – Jack Kornfield
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This episode recorded in late December 1991 was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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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