What if the blueprint for a extra lovely world is already inside you? Jack explores how belief, pleasure, and creativeness awaken transformation—from the within out.
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“Within the chrysalis, because the caterpillar imagines itself into the butterfly, there’s a message: belief that transformation is feasible. Not solely is it doable—however from the center, you’ll be able to assist form it. You may make a distinction.” – Jack Kornfield
On this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- What brings us pleasure on this life?
- Belief, morals, justice, and taking the lengthy view
- Enlightenment and cultivating a trusting coronary heart
- The imaginal cells of the butterfly
- How your voice, pleasure, creativeness, and belief can actually make a distinction
- Tales on belief, love, and making a distinction
- Aware presence and the Woke up Coronary heart
- Sangha/Satsang, group, and serving to one another
- Imagining a phenomenal new world collectively
- Feeling your self as a playful youngster of the spirit
- Spelunking the good thriller of life and the universe
- Including your make-weight of hope to the world
- Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl
- Bringing our pleasure, love, tenderness and compassion to the world
- The large questions: maintain struggling, and people inflicting struggling
- The facility of protest, standing up, letting go of concern, and embracing the power of pleasure
- Questions and Responses on navigate fashionable instances skillfully and joyfully with belief, steadiness, love, gratitude, equanimity, and compassion
“Belief that you simply make a distinction, and that every one among us makes a distinction.” – Jack Kornfield
“We’re on this collectively, we will awaken collectively, and we will help our hearts, minds, and the gorgeous world that we could be—it’s in us as a part of our imaginal cells.” – Jack Kornfield
This episode was recorded on 04/07/2025 for the Spirit Rock Meditation Middle Monday Evening Dharma Discuss and Guided Meditation.
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About Jack Kornfield:
Jack Kornfield skilled as a Buddhist monk within the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, learning as a monk underneath the Buddhist grasp Ven. Ajahn Chah, in addition to the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is without doubt one of the key lecturers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness observe to the West. Jack co-founded the Perception Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation lecturers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Middle in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and offered greater than 1,000,000 copies.
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