Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield connects with lifestyle expert Sarah Grynberg to talk about a life of greatness. 

"Really, meditation is about deep listening. You sit and what needs to be understood will come if you sit quietly. It is like going into the forest and finding a little clearing and sitting down. If you're quiet for a while the animals, the birds, they all resume their life and you see all the things you would never see before. " – Jack Kornfield 

In this episode Jack Kornfield and Sarah Grynberg discuss:

• What it was like for Jack to grow up in Judaism 
• Ajahn Chah and being ready for suffering 
• Surrender in meditation
• The catharsis of emotional release 
• Deep Listening 
• Buddhism as a practice versus a religion
• The Psychology of Heart and Mind 

About Sarah Grynberg

Sarah Grynberg is a well-renowned interviewer, well-being expert, keynote speaker, and host and producer of the highly-rated lifestyle and internationally successful podcast, A Life of Greatness, where she’s engaged some of the world’s biggest names. Through her years of research studying the links between the facets of human behavior, personal growth, and happiness, Sarah formulated her own blueprint for cultivating greatness. This powerful blueprint has become the touchstone of Sarah’s courses, talks & writing. You can keep up with Sarah on Instagram or on SarahGrynberg.com

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Teaching us about breath work and presence, Jack Kornfield guides a mindfulness meditation and discusses the beauty of listening.

"You are not the body, you are the mindful loving awareness that notices this body with kindness and care." – Jack Kornfield 

In this episode Jack Kornfield offers us:

• A guided mindfulness meditation 
• Tools to relax and experience presence 
• Breathing techniques for full body awareness 
• Ways to develop the capacity to listen
• Advice on working with trauma 
• Ways to thank our fears 

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Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joseph Goldstein explore the emergence of Western Buddhism and balancing faith with wisdom.

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"In the Buddhist tradition it's said that one of the prayers one might make is: May I be born in circumstances that I may experience the Dharma that will bring me to awaken the heart of boundless compassion and discover inner freedom." – Jack Kornfield

"That kind of questioning which isn't cynical and isn't arrogant but is really wondering, really wanting to know the truth for oneself, I think of as an essential component of faith." – Sharon Salzberg 

"Even in those first few minutes, what I discovered was there was a way to look into the mind as well as looking out through it. To me that was revelatory." – Joseph Goldstein

In this episode Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joseph Goldstein touch on:

• The formation of the Insight Meditation Society
• The emergence of Western Buddhism
• The balance of faith and wisdom 
• Starting small with meditation
• Being the product of our conditioning
• Having compassion for the human predicament 

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In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield teaches us about fostering femininity in our dharma practice.

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In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

• The relationship of birth and death
• Loving deeply by opening our hearts, bodies, and mind
• Moving from the masculine to the feminine 
• The power of forgiveness

"Part of what's happening to practice is that it is becoming balanced with a greater emphasis of the feminine...instead of independence there's more teaching of interdependence, of relationship to one's body, relationship to the earth." – Jack Kornfield

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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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