Sharing deep non secular secrets and techniques of affection and attachment, Jack transforms our unhealthy attachments into Smart Relationships by way of vulnerability, interior pleasure, and shared humanity.
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“The key is, the alternative of attachment just isn’t detachment, however love. As a result of real love doesn’t search to own or management, it doesn’t separate or concern what’s there. Real love is the flexibility to be current with out greedy. From this place, love gives its blessings.” – Jack Kornfield
On this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- Reworking unhealthy clingings into Smart Attachment
- Not getting caught in our concepts and views
- The worldwide value of collective dependancy and attachment
- Shifting previous our attachment to our sense of separateness
- The large non secular query—who’re we actually?
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and conserving a wholesome curiosity round demise
- Reducing our defenses and serving to others decrease their defenses round us
- Parenting with belief and connection quite than clinging and management
- The great aspect of attachment—connection, well-being, mirroring
- Reworking low-self-esteem and the physique of concern into self-confidence and openness
- Utilizing non secular follow to open to a love that features our full humanity
- Discovering the true prospects that the non secular path gives
- Resting in our being—how to not search and chase, and the way to not run away and conceal
- Touching our incompleteness, our brokenness, with compassion
- Increasing our coronary heart and connecting with our shared humanity
- Uncovering inside us our interior figuring out, The One Who Is aware of
- Tips on how to be true to your self, and make a light-weight of your self
- Meditation as an invite into vulnerability
- Shifting from unhealthy attachment into Smart Relationship
- How Being Right here Now, our capability to be current, transforms our life
- Nirvana because the absence of wrestle with the world because it as
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“We need to be beloved, we need to be held, and it’s so laborious to be weak. Meditation is an invite to that vulnerability, the rawness and openness of the guts. Not as a result of it’s good for us, however as a result of it strikes us again to the reality that we’re held. If we will sit and open, we’ll uncover that this universe that has given delivery to us actually does maintain us.” – Jack Kornfield
This episode recorded on 03/08/1993 at Spirit Rock Meditation Heart was initially printed on DharmaSeed.
“Nirvana, which is the absence of struggling, doesn’t imply that the world goes away. Nirvana is the absence of wrestle with the world as it’s.” – Jack Kornfield
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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 Heart in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and offered greater than 1,000,000 copies.
Jack is at the moment providing an exquisite array of transformational on-line programs diving into essential subjects like Mindfulness Meditation Fundamentals, Strolling the Eightfold Path, Opening the Coronary heart of Forgiveness, Residing Superbly, Reworking Your Life By way of Highly effective Tales, and a lot extra. Join an All Entry Go to discover Jack’s whole course library. If you want a yr’s price of on-line meetups with Jack and fellow neighborhood, be part of The Yr of Awakening: A Month-to-month Journey with Jack Kornfield.