Jack Kornfield and Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi discover how dealing with struggling with love can awaken the braveness to heal our world.
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“Love is that this unbelievable, inexplicable power. When there’s like it’s virtually that something is feasible. It’s love that binds all issues.” –Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi
On this episode, Jack and Rajiv mindfully discover:
- Residing Absolutely in a Time of Change: Joanna Macy’s funeral as a instructing on pleasure, love, and the fantastic thing about a life well-lived.
- Dealing with Struggling with Braveness: The 2 sorts of struggling—what we run from and what we open to with compassion.
- Meditation as Refuge: Increasing the guts’s window of tolerance to carry worry, grief, and love unexpectedly.
- The Candy Manner of the Dharma: Remembering peace, pleasure, and humor even within the midst of problem.
- Smiling as Apply: Softening the guts by means of easy, embodied gestures of kindness.
- The Nice Regeneration: Redefining the pandemic as a second to reimagine our world with knowledge and care.
- The Interbeing of All Issues: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Coronary heart Sutra and the popularity that we already maintain the options we search.
- Love in Motion: Ram Dass’s reminder to feed folks, love folks, and arrange from the guts.
- Sacred Reciprocity: Therapeutic inequality and local weather change by means of generosity, reverence, and stability.
- The Center Manner in a Polarized World: Assembly battle with understanding, presence, and chance.
- Inside Local weather Change: Remodeling the guts to rework the earth—awakening compassion as the foundation of renewal.
“The world is as it’s—it has struggling and wonder in unbelievable measure. So the true query is: how are you going to have a tendency your coronary heart?” –Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Discuss initially befell on 9/8/25 for Spirit Rock Meditation Heart’s Monday Evening Dharma Discuss 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 international collaboration, local weather know-how, and regenerative entrepreneurship.
About Jack Kornfield:
Jack Kornfield skilled as a Buddhist monk within the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, finding out as a monk underneath 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 follow 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 Heart in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and offered greater than one million copies.
Jack is presently providing a beautiful 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 Fantastically, Remodeling Your Life Via Highly effective Tales, and a lot extra. Join an All Entry Move to discover Jack’s complete course library. If you need a 12 months’s price of on-line meetups with Jack and fellow neighborhood, be part of The 12 months of Awakening: A Month-to-month Journey with Jack Kornfield.
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“There are two sorts of struggling. The primary is the sort you run away, and that follows you in all places. The second is the sort you’re prepared to show, face, and undergo, and that turns into our gateway to liberation.” –Jack Kornfield
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