In this episode, Jack Kornfield helps us discover how the ocean of breath can lead to greater compassion for all.

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"With the opening of breath comes a spaciousness or a healing quality which is that we can allow ourselves to hold in compassion, with a kindness of heart, all that arises." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

• Breath as the movement of spirit
• The cycle and rhythms of life
• Developing awareness of the breath
• Noticing our senses

This 1994 talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

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By telling stories of the Buddha, Jack Kornfield directs us on the purpose of practice and the laws of Dharma.

"What we repeatedly direct our mind to in this society is consumerism and materialism and addictions of different kinds. What we direct ourselves to, we get. For better or for worse." – Jack Kornfield

This talk from Jack Kornfield 1/4/1994 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

• The will to do
• Skillful action
• The mind as a mirror
• Birth stories of the Buddha
• Renunciation
• Awakening to the law of Dharma

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In simple, heartfelt presence, Jack Kornfield teaches us about coming into the dharma body.

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"You can see it in your life. It's helpful to be aware when you drive, or if you paint or you do computer programming or you make love, or you write poetry, or you garden. Mindfulness, I declare, is all helpful. With that presence is the path to freedom, to awakening." — Jack Kornfield

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

• Stories of Thich Nhat Hanh
• Becoming the Buddha
• Cosmic Breakthroughs
• Navigating Death
• Mindfull Awareness

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Jack Kornfield describes the Buddha's vow to awakening and how we too can set a daily intention to awaken. 

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"An intention creates our life. Thought manifests or leads to deeds, deeds develop into habit, habit hardens into character and character shapes our world." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

• The small, intimate choice to awaken
• Collective awakening
• Intention in practice
• The interplay of mind and body

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Moving beyond our small sense of self, Jack Kornfield introduces us to the ways intention, love, and acceptance can transform us.

Amidst our ever-changing lives, we can find the patterns which form from our hearts and realize the source of who we are.

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"Our heart is the garden into which we plant seeds and nourish them. Depending on our intention, gradually, we shape the patterns of our lives. What's important then is not so much what we say or do, but what is the intention with that? " – Jack Kornfield

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Reflecting on impermanence, Jack Kornfield explains that despite our physical frailty our spirit can never truly die.

Where can we go when we die? Jack Kornfield explores the recycling of energy, our limitlessness beyond death, and how death enables us to live more presently.

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"There's this amazing thing with death that there is both less of someone and yet more of them. There's some way in which you can walk in the woods and they are there to speak too. Being with death slows us down, it softens us, it makes us more gracious." — Jack Kornfield

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Mindfully navigating death, we learn from Jack Kornfield how to appreciate the vulnerability of one's final moments on earth.

Jack Kornfield describes the truth death pushes us to face and how keeping an awareness of the inevitable aids us in living fully while we can.

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"Mindfulness of death is powerful because it begins to bring abut a deep questioning, a profound shift of identity. In the face of death, who are we?" — Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield describes finding a light in the dark via Buddhist wisdom on forgiveness, transience, and a profound sense of freedom.

Through ancient storytelling and dharmic conversation, Jack Kornfield helps us grasp forgiving ourselves and others, keeping a connection to our senses and instincts, and resting in our Buddha nature. 

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 “To forgive means simply that we will not put anyone out of our heart because to do so closes us. It reduces us from being human.” – Jack Kornfield 

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Traversing the receptive energy of water, Jack Kornfield details the power of fluidity, serenity, and gentleness.

This lecture was originally uploaded on DharmaSeed.org

A spiritual journey is often quite gradual. It is not typical to one day wake up and have a deep relationship with God or become enlightened. That gradual deepening we feel as we tune into our practice is much like a body of water. We are open, receptive, and vast. The mystery of being is that we do not know our destiny or how our spiritual journey will form, but like water, we can yield to the mystery.

"Do you have the constancy to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving and present until the right action arises by itself?"

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Through catalysts of compassion and acceptance, Jack Kornfield guides us into a life of lasting transformation.

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“We are a pattern, a process, that is never the same. In this process of our life, the patterns that continue for us flow out of our intentions.” – Jack Kornfield

This dharma talk was originally published on DharmaSeed.org

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