Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Connecting the Buddha's wisdom with the teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda's infamous Yaqui shaman, Jack explores how to become a spiritual warrior.

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"There's a mysterious beauty that surrounds those individuals who live their lives as warriors, as men or women of knowledge." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:

• How Buddha's factors of enlightenment (qualities of awakening) connect with Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda's infamous teacher and Yaqui shaman and sorcerer
• Don Juan's wisdom of the 'Way of the Warrior' in relation to Buddhism
• The qualities of living as a spiritual warrior: impeccability/wholeness, wise effort/energy, courage/investigation, controlled-folly (play/lightness), strength/concentration, and steadfastness/unshakeableness
• Shamanism and cutting through our sense of separation into the root of consciousness
• Finding inner-freedom by learning how to stop our internal dialogue

"The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse." – Carlos Castaneda (Author of The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge)

This talk from 12/31/1983 at Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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In response to the conflicts in the world, Jack offers a harmonizing guided meditation inviting us into peace, sanctuary, and the heart of refuge.

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"I breath in peace and breath out peace to all those who are amidst the troubles of this world—the conflicts, the refuges, the violence and the fear. I send you a peaceful breath. May we be peaceful together." – Jack Kornfield

In this timely episode, Jack leads a harmonizing guided meditation to help us:

• Find a mindful, balanced, and compassionate response to the conflicts and tragedy's happening throughout the world today
• Turn our awareness to the present moment, merging mind, body, and spirit
• Extend our consciousness, compassion, and mindful loving awareness around the planet, it's people, and environments
• Send out peaceful healing breaths to all those who are amidst the troubles of the world

This episode is from the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation on 10/23/2023.

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In this powerful new Dharma Talk touching on current events, an emotional Jack offers a heart of refuge amidst the world's conflicts.

"There's a liberation amidst birth and death, joy and sorrow, war and peace, that is beyond it all. This is the sacred openness of love and awareness itself.” – Jack Kornfield

In this emotional episode, Jack touches into:

• The terrors of the ongoing wars in Gaza, Ukraine, Darfur
• How constant news media effects our emotions and wellbeing
• Learning to live from the 'heart of refuge' which the Buddha offers
• What does it mean to be a refugee? How can we help create sanctuary?
• The importance of outsiders opening to the suffering of all humans rather than taking sides
• How the Buddha's mindful loving awareness overcomes Mara's aggression, greed, and doubt
• The ways we can open ourselves to forgiveness, compassion, community, safety, love, and trust

This episode is from the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation on 10/23/2023.

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Jack explores how meeting our lives with a directness and simplicity helps bring the mind, body, and heart into unity.

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"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

This Dharma Talk 9/29/1983 at the Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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In this riveting episode, Jack shares hilarious personal stories illuminating lessons from his life as a forest monk in Thailand.

"The spirt was you just did it, and you worked with whatever came up as your practice. Living the life of a monk meant taking what came to you and working with it, whether it was difficult or easy.” – Jack Kornfield 

In this riveting episode, Jack dives into:

• What it was like living as a forest monk in Thailand at Ajahn Chah's forest monastery
• The wisdom he learned through experiencing Ajahn Chah's four-part teachings on surrender, opening up to see clearly, working with the mind, and gaining balance/perspective
• The two levels of Dharma practice: using Dharma to feel comfortable, and using Dharma to get free
• Ajahn Chah's rascally yet direct interactions with students, including one with Ram Dass
• Working with attachments and aversions in order to overcome them and grow spiritually
• Learning how to let go and not get caught in the mind's lures, traps, and intricacies

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This episode from Insight Meditation Society on 6/7/1981 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

"Meditation practice is where you are sitting. It's not to go to some other place, or have the ideal setting, or have your coffee, or have your quiet little room. Where you are is your practice." – Jack Kornfield

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Illuminating the Way of the Bodhisattva, Jack shares wisdom from St. Teresa of Calcutta, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Ajahn Chah, and Sueng Sahn on walking the spiritual path.

This vintage episode from April 10, 1977 at Camp Cedar Glen was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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In this vintage episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:

• The selfless service, love, and wisdom of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta
• Elizabeth Kübler-Ross's unshakeable compassion and revolutionary work around death and dying
• How his teacher Ajahn Chah's Thai monastery was an island of peace and possibility amidst war and conflict
• What the story of Korean Zen Master, Seung Sahn, getting a job at a laundry mat teaches us about non-attachment to self
• Compassion, the spiritual path, and the Way of the Bodhisattva

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"The power that a human being who’s really committed to truth and love has to transform people around them is quite remarkable." – Jack Kornfield

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In this flowing question and answer session, Jack helps his students mindfully navigate topics like loneliness, intention setting, meditating with ADD, meeting our shame with nobility, and dealing with jerks.

"The spiritual path is really step by step. If you think of it as long, you can get lost and overwhelmed. But if you realize that you're not going from here to there, you're going from there to hear, the path leads you back to this moment and to a more tender heart.” – Jack Kornfield 

In this question and answer session, Jack and his students mindfully explore:

• A do-it-yourself intention setting ceremony
• What it's like to practice meditation with ADD
• The benefits of going on spiritual retreat both in-person and online
• How to handle being triggered by "jerks," politics, greed, hate, and injustice
• Meeting our shame and regret with nobility and growth
• Finding patience and trust for the spiritual path
• Spirituality and how to deal with difficult family
• The importance of satsang (sangha, spiritual community)

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Executive Chairman of the Ford Motor Company, Bill Ford, joins Jack to discuss capitalism, Right Livelihood, and the next generation.

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“To be successful in business you have to have values, you have to stand by those values, and you can't compromise those values. But you also have to have the tools to do that. Whether it's meditation or other forms of self-exploration, you have to have a way to shed the stress and to really dive into what's important.” – Bill Ford

In this episode, Jack and Bill mindfully navigate:

• How we can make business and work a force for good
• The stakes and rewards of servant leadership
• Capitalism, Right Livelihood, and the Next Generation
• Navigating tough decisions and bringing out the best in others
• Compassionate leadership in a cold economy
• Living with empathy and from our highest intention

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"What's the point of your life if there isn't some well-being woven into it? It's not meant to be a grim duty. Some people take meditation as a grim duty. That doesn't make it happy, and it doesn't actually serve you in some deep way." – Jack Kornfield

This conversation was originally recorded for the Inner-MBA program presented by Sounds True.

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In this hilarious episode, Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman, and Bonnie Duran, DrPH, share stories on becoming empowered to solve your own problems.

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“The Buddha's enlightenment solved the Buddha's problem, now you solve yours.” – Joseph Goldstein

In this episode Jack, Trudy, and Bonnie mindfully explore:

• The powerful lesson encased within Bonnie's first one-on-one session with Joseph Goldstein
• Empowerment, personal understanding, and spiritual awakening
• Hilarious stories from Jack on his teacher Ajahn Chah involving enlightenment, Jesus, and the wisdom of not-knowing
• Trudy's two-sided spiritual lesson on aging, impermanence, and presence
• Dealing with uncertainty and learning to trust yourself

About Bonnie Duran, DrPH:

Bonnie Duran, DrPH, (mixed race Opelousas/Coushatta) is a Professor Emeritus in the Schools of Social Work and Public Health at the University of Washington (UW), in Seattle. Before, during and after completing her doctoral degree at UC Berkeley, she has worked in public health and social care research, education and practice with a focus on Native Americans/Indigenous peoples and other communities of color for over 35 years. Dr Duran has conducted studies of mental disorder prevalence, risk and protective factors, victimization, and treatment seeking/ barriers to care among people attending Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities and probability samples from the Tribal Colleges and University’s within the largest rural Tribal Nations in the U.S. In partnership with communities, she has adapted and developed Indigenous interventions for system level, community and individual health and wellbeing.

About Trudy Goodman:

Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats and workshops worldwide.

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Reflecting on what it means to live in a wise society, Jack shares stories on how we can handle difficult topics – cancer, abortion, women's rights, prison, and war – with a mutual respect.

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“How much respect do you give to those you disagree with? And what would they feel from you? Not that you have to have the same ideas, but is there that spirit of respect? Can you see the secret beauty behind their eyes? Can you see them all with a heart open even if you disagree?” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• What the truth of interdependence means to tending a wise society
• How Buddha, Dharma, and meditation connect with politics and community
• A story of enlightenment about 'The Rabbi, the Abbot, and The Messiah'
• Quieting the mind, opening the heart, mutual respect, and listening deeply
• The compassion of Quan Yin, and the Dharma as medicine for the world
• Gracefully handling topics like cancer, abortion, women's rights, the prison system, and war

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