Jack is interviewed by Ocean Robbins to discover the large non secular questions—why there may be struggling, tips on how to navigate duality, making the strange holy, and cultivating a loving witness.
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“It’s essential to not use non secular follow to arrange a great or choose your self. Generally you could shut down, and you then open once more. So the non secular path is de facto about being with each the calm ocean and the storm.” – Jack Kornfield
On this episode, Jack and Ocean mindfully discover:
- What first obtained Jack into mindfulness and meditation
- Life as stunning, and an ocean of tears
- Struggling, Buddhism, and the tip of struggling
- Why is there struggling on the earth?
- Navigating the fact of duality—kind and vacancy, life and dying
- The recycling nature of the universe
- Find out how to make the strange holy
- Assembly our lives with presence
- A easy solution to clarify “The Witness”
- The magic of consciousness
- A chilled and deep guided meditation
- Holding worry and grief in compassion
- Not getting caught in reactions and anger
- Performing the the Aristocracy of coronary heart and your unique dignity
This episode was initially recorded for the Meals Revolution Community in November of 2024.
“Life is very stunning, and it’s an ocean of tears. You’ll be able to’t have beginning with out dying, you possibly can’t have gentle with out darkish, you possibly can’t have beginnings with out endings. We reside in a universe constructed of opposites. That’s simply the sport of kind, of duality. You’ll be able to’t have kind with out the vacancy from which it comes.” – Jack Kornfield
About Ocean Robbins:
Ocean Robbins is an American entrepreneur and creator, finest identified for his function because the co-founder of Meals Revolution Community, Inc. This California-based firm is devoted to advocating for an entire meals, plant-based food plan. Try Ocean’s e-book, 31-Day Meals Revolution, to study extra about therapeutic the physique and reworking the world. You’ll be able to 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 without doubt one of 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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“We reside in a universe that’s recycling itself—the final word recycling of beginning and dying, kind and rebirth. For us as human beings, the query shouldn’t be why or how. The Buddha didn’t truly reply these questions. He stated these are questions that don’t are likely to have understanding. He stated, what I’m concerned about is tips on how to navigate the universe as it’s, in a method that brings love, well-being, and freedom to all who wish to awaken to this.” – Jack Kornfield
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