733: Jack Kornfield
Duncan Trussell Family Hour
Duncan Trussell Family Hour
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Jack Kornfield, one of the greatest living Buddhist teachers on the planet, re-joins the DTFH!
You can learn more about Jack, and find info on his new book All In This Together: Stories and Teachings for Loving Each Other and Our World, on his website: JackKornfield.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings to you, my sweet friends, and welcome to the DTFH. Today we have an incredibly special episode |
| 0:08.7 | with potentially one of the great Buddhist teachers living on the planet today. Jack Cornfield |
| 0:17.6 | changed my life, and I am one of millions of people to say that. |
| 0:22.8 | He was a monk, came back to the United States, and much like Ram Dass figured out a way |
| 0:28.8 | to articulate the Dharma in a way that people like me could not just understand, but implement |
| 0:36.3 | in our own lives. I've been lucky enough to see Jack |
| 0:41.0 | give Dharma talks and it's one of the most mystical, beautiful things to watch the effect he has |
| 0:48.4 | on a room full of people. Everybody gets peaceful. Everybody gets happy. And I still think about some of the things |
| 0:57.6 | I've heard him talk about years ago every week. He is a brilliant, beautiful person, and we are |
| 1:06.2 | lucky to have him on this planet. He just wrote a new book. All in this together, |
| 1:11.9 | Stories and Teachings for Loving Each Other and Our World. |
| 1:15.9 | So if you feel a little freaked out by the world right now, |
| 1:19.6 | perhaps this conversation I had with Mr. Cornfield |
| 1:23.9 | will make you feel a little better. |
| 1:27.1 | So now everybody, welcome back to the DTFH, Jack Cornfield will make you feel a little better. So now everybody welcome back to the DTFH, Jack |
| 1:31.2 | Cornfield. Jack, welcome back to the DTFH. It's really good to see you. Great. Off mic, |
| 1:39.5 | we were talking about, well, Jack was asking me. Aaron just had a baby. |
| 1:54.1 | And the first question I had for you is based on the experience of being with a newborn, |
| 2:00.6 | which is this mystical, heavy, beautiful experience. |
| 2:07.0 | But Aaron saw this too, and this was probably less than 24 hours after the baby was born. |
| 2:20.4 | This like very deep look of sadness and grief and lucidity that was not a baby's sadness. |
| 2:23.7 | Like came across this baby's face. |
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