For episode 279, Jack Kornfield returns to the Metta Hour to speak about his new guide, “All in This Collectively: Tales and Teachings for Loving Every Different and Our World.”
Jack skilled as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has taught worldwide since 1974. He is likely one of the key lecturers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practices to the West. He’s the cofounder of the Perception Meditation Society and of Spirit Rock Heart in Woodacre, California. He holds a PhD in scientific psychology and has written greater than fifteen books, together with The Clever Coronary heart, A Path with Coronary heart, and extra.
On this dialog, Sharon and Jack discuss:
- The impetus for Jack’s new guide
- The universe is fabricated from tales
- Newbie’s Thoughts because the purpose of apply
- Ajahn Chah’s squirrel story
- How repetition components into storytelling
- Trusting the presents of interconnectedness
- Ram Dass as the good public neurotic
- The look of mercy
- The Bodhisattva Vow
- Envisioning generosity to vary the world
- Working with our expectations
- Despair is just not the tip of the story
- Aware Service as a supply of happiness
- The Perception Meditation Society’s fiftieth anniversary
- The founding of IMS informed by Jack
- How the Dharma evolves throughout cultures
This episode closes with a guided meditation from Jack. Be taught extra about Jack’s many choices proper right here and get your self a replica of his new guide All in This Collectively.
