Offering a powerful guided metta practice for current times, Jack teaches listeners how to open the heart and become a beacon of kindness for ourselves and others.
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“A powerful way of practicing metta is to invite in the feeling of love without specific words or images. You become a beacon of kindness. Then whatever arises as you sit—thoughts, people, images, concerns—will be held in that kindness.” – Jack Kornfield
This week on Heart Wisdom, Jack offers listeners instruction on:
- Metta and invoking the spirit of love within ourselves
- Holding all that arises during meditation with kindness
- Letting our body have a sense of care and well being
- Allowing ourselves to soften, relax, and rest easily
- Feeling completely supported by the earth below us
- Opening our hearts and minds via the metta sutta of loving-kindness
- Suffusing the whole world with unobstructed, sublime love
“The ideal as you practice is to find your own way, to find what most naturally resonates with yourself as a gateway to open the heart.” – Jack Kornfield
This episode was originally recorded for the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation Livestream for Feb 2025. Join Jack’s next livestream here.
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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