#156 Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Author and Buddhist practitioner Jack Kornfield sits down for a candid, in-depth interview to help you suppress self-doubt and find inner calm.

Calling on decades of experience as one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West, Kornfield offers valuable insights into how to best deal with conflict and stress in your life and how to handle harmful outside influences in healthy, constructive ways.

Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974, co-founding the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass., and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold over a million copies.

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0:00.0	You're invited to quiet your mind and to set your own best intention.
0:05.6	If you were to set an intention of what really matters to you most,
0:10.5	it becomes a touchstone for you. I mean, it can be as simple as I vow to be kind
0:16.0	or I vow to live with more wakefulness and attentiveness to myself and others or with more respect.
0:21.9	It would be that simple. And then when you get to place of struggle, you take a pause and you say,
0:27.9	what's my best intention? And it shines a light and it gives you a new direction.
0:49.5	Welcome to the Knowledge Project Podcast. I'm your host, Shane Parrish.
0:53.4	The goal of this show is to master the best of what other people have already figured out.
0:58.3	To do that, I sit down with people at the top of their game to uncover the useful lessons that you can learn
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1:19.2	Check out the show notes for a link.
1:21.2	Today, I'm speaking with Jack Cornfield. Jack trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of
1:28.9	Thailand, India, and Burma. He's taught meditation since the 70s and is recognized as one of the best in the world.
1:36.1	I've wanted to talk to Jack because of the inner voice that's always in my head.
1:40.0	Perhaps you have this inner voice too, the one that's constantly judging you and seemingly at war with yourself,
1:46.0	the one that's worried about what other people think. The one that feeds your emotions,
1:50.3	your destructive patterns, and gets you caught up in the problems of others and the world.
1:55.2	This conversation is about finding inner calm. So many of our problems,
1:59.2	even our physical ones, come from our inner state. When we're calm on the inside,
2:03.8	we don't pick fights, we're not passive aggressive, we're not creating or getting caught up in drama,
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