Unveiling how to grow your heart as big as the sky, Jack shares the spiritual antidote for aversion, negativity, and fear.

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"Let your heart be as big as your whole experience, like the sky." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• Overcoming aversion by "bringing it into your heart" rather than your rational mind
• Touching into emotions, fears, and judgements with compassion instead of aversion
• Using techniques like "noting/naming" for moving past intense feelings
• Loving your negatives states as you would love your own child
• Seeing clearly the karma, value, and consequence of your personal patterns
• Who would you be if you dropped your opinions, views, identity?
• Growing your heart to the size of the sky
• Practicing the 'art of letting go'
• Learning to live in the reality 'the Now'
• Why Buddha had a better time than most
• Painting as a doorway to spiritual experience
• Transmuting difficulties by dropping our resistance to them
• How to hold healthy views without being attached to them

"In this space of Now, it's not necessary to have fear. In this place of Now, we can rest." – Jack Kornfield

"If we want to create peace, or if we want to live free from greed, hatred and delusion, the place to start is in ourselves." – Jack Kornfield

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This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 1/1/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Illustrating how to free yourself from fear and opinion, Jack reveals how to overcome suffering by cultivating a pure heart.

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"The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there." – Robert M. Pirsig

In this episode, Jack skillfully illuminates:

• Skillful ways to free yourself from stuck views and opinions
• Ram Dass's teaching advice to Jack
• Balancing life's sufferings with life's joys
• Zen wisdom on how to drop your views
• Accepting what you see and rejecting what you think
• Overcoming suffering by living with a pure heart
• Buddha's 'Fire Sermon' teachings
• The way attachment connects to fear, and how to get to the root
• How views and opinions keep you separate, ego-focused, and defensive
• Working with racism and fear by imbibing wakefulness and mindfulness
• Overcoming opinions and and views by the method of noting/naming

This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 1/1/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Uncovering how to find joy and freedom in any situation, Jack shares the roadmap for discovering peace within yourself.

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“Peace is the cessation of your struggle, it’s putting down the burden and letting things be as they actually are.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• Learning to be at peace with yourself and the world
• How to meditate when it feels like you can’t meditate
• The way emptiness connects with compassion
• Reconciling where peace meets struggle
• Peace as an internal state you can bring with you
• Being Here Now, opening to life fully, and becoming intimate with all things
• How we can find joy, liberation, and freedom in any situation
• Dharma stories of the Buddha as well as the Bodhisattva Vimalakīrti
• Coming to terms with the First Noble Truth of suffering, disappointment, and change
• The transformative power of meeting life exactly as it is
• What we can learn from both a “Duck Meditation,” “Goose Poem,” and a Tibetan Prayer
• Love and it’s connection with courage

“We can’t come to rest because we’re at war with what’s actually here.” – Jack Kornfield

“To enter into the unknown is really to enter into the moment.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 12/01/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Jack and the ‘Grandfather of Gratitude,’ Brother David Steindl-Rast, delve into sacred reflections on death, where Buddha meets Jesus, the power of compassion, the positive side of grief, and beyond.

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“The process of grieving that breaks this little heart, which closes itself in itself, opens us to the heart that we all share, the one heart that we all have in common.” – Brother David Steindl-Rast

In this sacred dialogue, Jack, Brother David, and Frank Ostaseski reflect on:

• How Christianity and Buddhism fit together spiritually
• The compassionate smile of Buddha meeting the sacred heart of Jesus Christ
• The positive side of grief: opening to the collective heart
• Death and grace in both traditions
• Deconditioning from a difficult mother
• Harnessing the power of your common sense
• A funny story about the Pope, and how to awaken to who we already are
• Jack’s journey to the Temple of the Coconut Monk
• How to handle pain like a Burmese Master
• How to forgive yourself and overcome remorse
• Diffusing suicidal tendencies by cultivating self-compassion
• Guided meditations and sacred chants from Jack and Brother David

“In a meditative way, one of the big pieces of being able to love, or touch, or open, or live, is really the work of forgiveness, grace, and receiving yourself in all of your complexity and loving.” – Jack Kornfield

“Compassion, loving kindness, and understanding are our true nature, our true state.” – Jack Kornfield

This conversation recorded on 6/30/1988 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Fantastic Fungi's visionary director, Louie Schwartzberg, joins Jack to explore the profound connection between psychedelics and mindfulness. 

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“You can’t separate psychedelics from life.” – Jack Kornfield

In this fresh conversation, Jack and Louie spelunk the depths of:

• The connection between psychedelics and spirituality
• Psychedelics as a gateway to wonder, curiosity, and the sacred
• How tripping on psychedelics informed Louie’s filmmaking
• Albert Einstein and psychedelics as the intersection between art and science
• The universe and life as a constant transformation of light energy
• Buddha’s “Flower Sermon” and Zen Master Suzuki Roshi’s “Beginner’s Mind”
• Jack “exchanging maps” with famous LSD researcher, Stanislav Grof
• Studies showing the combination of psilocybin mushrooms and Louie’s time-lapse nature imagery as a powerful therapeutic tool for helping addiction and PTSD
• The importance of “set and setting,” community, and integration
• How psychedelics actually fit into the Buddhist precepts
• Honoring biology and the feminine aspects of nature
• The gifts of sacred attention and loving awareness
• Finding beauty wherever you are, and how Louie’s films heal by sharing patterns of nature for the soul to connect with

This conversation was originally recorded on 3/29/24 by Banyan Together – an online mindfulness community started by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. To join the community and learn more, visit BanyanTogether.com

“A lot of the work I do is to make the invisible visible. And that’s the perfect description of what a psychedelic journey is like, making the invisible visible.” – Louie Schwartzberg

“We live in a culture that’s almost defined by the absence of the sacred. And so we feel this yearning, this intuitive wish to connect—whether it’s going high in the mountains, or making love, or taking psychedelics, or meditating.” – Jack Kornfield

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Inviting in calm, strength, and steadiness, Jack leads a guided meditation into the heart of mindful loving awareness.

This guided meditation was originally recorded on 2/19/2024 for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. Register to join Jack's next livestream at JackKornfield.com/events

"Feel the weight of your body, gravity, and how the earth completely supports you when you let go into your seat. You're met by the strength and steadiness of the earth itself. You can rest on her. – Jack Kornfield

In this fresh episode, Jack leads a guided meditation for:

• Inviting in a sense of ease and calm
• Relaxing into mindful loving awareness
• Finding a steady, grounded, rooted posture
• Keeping a natural, soft, and flowing breath
• Quieting the mind and watching experience unfold
• Noticing the arising and passing away of all phenomena
• Allowing yourself into rest, trust, and relaxation

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Exploring the great mystery of life and existence, Jack shares enlightening insights on the playful nature of wisdom.

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"The beautiful thing is, wisdom is gracious." – Jack Kornfield

Fresh from an adventure in Costa Rica, Jack offers wisdom on:

• Spelunking the great mystery of life
• Wisdom as inherently gracious and playful
• Balancing compassion with emptiness
• How to speak with suffering people
• Joanna Macy and the "Great Turning" of human civilization
• Ram Dass, Ajahn Chah, and Stephen Levine
• "Central Casting" and the human experience
• How Jack and his colleagues handle their own aging

"It's all empty and it all matters." – Jack Kornfield

"Meditation is not about gaining or attaining something, it's about seeing the world with the heart of wisdom." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk was originally recorded on 2/19/2024 for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. Register to join Jack's next livestream at JackKornfield.com/events

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Offering compassion for our human flaws, Jack relays how to stop being so loyal to our suffering, and helps uncover the heart of the Buddha living within each of us.

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In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• Living the Divine Abodes to uncover the heart of the Buddha within yourself
• How to live in loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity/peace
• Ram Dass, the Chicken and Rice Man, and selfless service
• How the circle of compassion is not complete until it includes self-compassion
• Viktor Frankl and the boundless freedom of the human spirit
• David Roche and The Church of 80% Sincerity
• Moving beyond looks and into the reality of unconditional love
• Turning off the news and doing something enjoyable
• How to stop being so loyal to your suffering

This Dharma Talk from 12/10/2007 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

“You can search the tenfold universe as the Buddha and not find a single person more worthy of love and care than the one seated right here in your own body.” – Jack Kornfield

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Shining light on the Divine Abodes, Jack shares how we can navigate the world from the goodness of our hearts.

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"Luminous, says the Buddha, is this heart and mind." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• The Divine Abodes (Brahmaviharas) as qualities of the Awakened Heart
• Navigating the world from the goodness of our hearts
• Loving kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity/peace
• What is possible for us as human beings
• Discovering who we really are and what really matters
• Stories of Jack's Buddhist teacher, Maha Ghosananda
• The spirituality of neuroscience's "Mirror Neurons."
• Sharon Salzberg, Metta practice, and the power of attention
• Ram dass, and the heart as the doorway to love

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"What we give our attention, that place will flower and blossom. So if we give our attention to love, it grows." – Jack Kornfield

"Loving Kindness is like the rain that falls on all things, the just and the unjust, equally without discrimination. That love, when it grows within our heart, has a quality of nurturance, moisture, opening ,sweetness and constancy to it. It's an expression of the heart that's unencumbered by fear." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from 12/10/2007 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Jack shares miracle stories and personal lessons from Dipa Ma – the luminous, compassionate and unshakeable spiritual master.

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"You had a sense from this very sweet, mild-mannered old lady of a kind of unshakable inner strength, an incredible sense of stillness and strength in her being." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack lovingly reflects on:

• His times with the great yogi and spiritual master, Dipa Ma Barua
• Miracle stories and spiritual lessons of Dipa Ma
• How the suffering in Dipa Ma's life drew her to Buddhism and meditation
• Dipa Ma's siddhis (spiritual/psychic powers) and compassionate shining heart
• A life-changing story of Jack being blessed by Dipa Ma
• Her grandmotherly loving kindness
• Dipa Ma's favorite spiritual questions

"Dipa Ma's teaching was to always keep people in your heart, to give of your love to the people, and the earth and the world around." – Jack Kornfield

"Of all of the possibilities that one can do with the heart and mind, Dipa Ma was a great master of them." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from 11/01/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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