Jack and Ocean proceed their deep dialog, exploring how you can create constructive change on this planet with out dropping our religious middle and loving essence.
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“Neither meditation nor activism needs to be a grim obligation. These are invites to open the guts and be current for the whole lot. In activism you get up since you care and you’re keen on, and then you definately carry your finest to it.” – Jack Kornfield
On this episode, Jack and Ocean mindfully discover:
- Activism and creating constructive change on this planet
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“It says within the Bhagavad Gita, the essence is to behave superbly with out attachment to the fruits of the actions. What it means is, you don’t get to find out the way it seems, however you do get to plant your seeds of goodness. And as Thoreau says, ‘Persuade me you will have a seed there, and I’m ready to count on miracles.’ You get to plant the seeds, and finally, in their very own time, they bear fruit. That’s not your job. Your job is to make a stupendous backyard, to plant stunning issues, and to have a tendency them.” – Jack Kornfield
This episode was initially recorded for the Meals Revolution Community in November of 2024.
About Ocean Robbins:
Ocean Robbins is an American entrepreneur and writer, finest identified for his function because the co-founder of Meals Revolution Community, Inc. This California-based firm is devoted to advocating for a complete meals, plant-based weight loss program. Try Ocean’s ebook, 31-Day Meals Revolution, to be taught extra about therapeutic the physique and reworking the world. You possibly can sustain with Ocean on his web site, HERE.
About Jack Kornfield:
Jack Kornfield skilled as a Buddhist monk within the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, finding out as a monk beneath the Buddhist grasp Ven. Ajahn Chah, in addition to the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is likely one of the key academics to introduce Buddhist mindfulness apply to the West. Jack co-founded the Perception Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation academics 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 one million copies.
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“If we don’t look, if we don’t acknowledge the youngsters who’re hungry, if we don’t acknowledge not simply Ukraine and Gaza, however Sudan, and the Congo, and Myanmar, and the Rohingas—if we flip our gaze away in denial, we will’t make a distinction. Our coronary heart needs to be large enough and our dignity sturdy sufficient that we’re prepared to see it. After which a few of us are referred to as to try this work in the way in which that we will.” – Jack Kornfield