Ep. 108 - A Steadiness of Presence

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

Kornfield, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Jackkornfield, Buddhism, Spirituality, Jack Kornfield

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Jack Kornfield shares his thoughts on the value of spiritual practice, and leads a guided meditation designed to use the breath to cultivate a steadiness of presence.

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0:35.0	Breathe by Debbie Nutley. Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour.
0:54.0	We are delighted to share with you Jack's innate common sense wisdom
0:59.0	and his clear open heart.
1:02.0	If you are interested in supporting Jack's podcast, go to be here now network
1:07.8	dot com slash Jack.
1:12.4	I'm really happy to be here with you today and to have your company.
1:17.0	It's a tough time in our culture, in our world,
1:20.0	and maybe one could say that often and over many cycles in the last
1:26.2	you know centuries but here we sit coming to meditate in the middle of these fraught and very divisive conversations
1:37.6	about DACA and dreamers, about school shootings and guns, what happened in parkland and so forth
1:46.7	the tragedies we carry about immigration about about who we are as a culture and a society and as human beings and whatever
1:57.2	your political persuasion and I'm not going to assume anything about that here. These things weigh on our hearts and the divisiveness is so difficult
2:08.2	and the solutions are also hard to find and they're particularly hard to find when we look
2:19.1	outwardly because it's quite obvious that no amount of technological development, and I just came this
2:29.5	morning from a conference called Wisdom 2.0 in San Francisco,
2:33.2	which was a meeting of Silicon Valley people
2:36.2	and technologists with a group of people
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