Jack Kornfield and Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi discover ‘inside local weather change,’ guiding us by way of meditation and reflection on remodeling the world by changing into the Tree of Enlightenment.
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“As a lot as we wish to rework the world, if we don’t change ourselves, we would not encourage these round us and maybe change the system.” –Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi
On this episode, Jack and Rajiv mindfully discover:
- Guided meditation: A journey into changing into the Tree of Enlightenment—rooted, regular, and open to the sky. Jack and Prof. Rajiv invite us to really feel the deep stillness and sacred presence of the timber, reminding us that awakening is a pure unfolding throughout the net of life.
- Buddha and timber: The Buddha’s life was interwoven with timber—born beneath one, meditating and awakening beneath one other, and passing away surrounded by their quiet grace. Timber mirror the trail of the woke up coronary heart: grounded within the Earth, reaching towards the sunshine.
- Timber as ancestors: They’re our elders, silent lecturers who breathe life into the world. By means of their persistence and generosity, they remind us of what it means to pay attention, to endure, and to belong.
- Collective therapeutic: Our awakening will not be solely private—it’s collective. By means of love throughout generations, we will heal the planet and each other, planting seeds of compassion that can develop lengthy after us.
- Radical compassion: To stay with an open coronary heart requires each tenderness and braveness. We study to belief, to construct bridges, to talk reality, and to behave for justice with mindfulness and care.
- System change: True transformation begins inside and extends outward. Every of us has a job to play in making a world rooted in consciousness, kindness, and proper motion.
- Religious neighborhood: Sangha turns into the dwelling floor for our follow—an area to study, to stumble, to develop, and to embody a brand new method of being collectively.
- Rajiv’s story: After his accident, Rajiv found that spirituality will not be other than life—it is life. Each breath, each act, each second turns into follow when the guts is awake.
This Dharma Speak initially came about on 9/8/25 for Spirit Rock Meditation Middle’s Monday Night time Dharma Speak and Guided Meditation.
About Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi:
Professor Joshi is the Founding father of Bridging Ventures and former Affiliate Dean for Local weather Motion at Columbia College. He helped launch Columbia’s Local weather Faculty with President Obama, and has led groundbreaking work in world collaboration, local weather know-how, and regenerative entrepreneurship.
“With belief, we study to construct bridges, not partitions. That ability—the aptitude to construct bridges in essentially the most tough of contexts—requires the depth of compassion.” –Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi
About Jack Kornfield:
Jack Kornfield skilled as a Buddhist monk within the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, learning 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 among the key lecturers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness follow 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 bought greater than 1,000,000 copies.
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“The Buddha was born beneath a tree, grew up beneath the timber, practiced beneath timber, obtained enlightened beneath the Bodhi Tree, taught beneath the timber, and died beneath two sal timber that instantly got here into bloom when he died. He and the timber had been one.” –Jack Kornfield
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