Ep. 109 - This Too Shall Pass

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Jack Kornfield offers a guided practice and Dharma talk that reminds us of the inner refuge that is available to us in the most hopeless of times.

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0:28.0	The author, Debbie Netley, is a meditation teacher, certified byarmamoon and Tibet House and trained by mindful schools to teach children. Find Penguin's Breath at your favorite online bookstore, that's P-E-N-G-W-E-S,
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. Hello to everybody who's watching or listening.
1:16.0	I am honored to do Monday night again in the middle of this really wild time.
1:22.0	And our Monday night class has now been going on for 35 years.
1:27.0	Now I do it a little less frequently. I did it every week for 30 years and still doing it periodically along with some other wonderful teachers.
1:36.5	And it feels in this time so important that we're able to come together and to sit and to practice the trainings of mindful loving awareness, compassion,
1:50.0	understanding, studying the heart. We need this more than ever. So what I'd like to do tonight is do a guided
1:58.5	meditation practice. Often we'll sit in silence, but this will be a guided meditation for 15 or 20 minutes.
2:07.0	And following that will take a short break to stretch your body, and then some teachings that maybe will be around 50 minutes if I can keep them to that amount.
2:19.0	And the intention for all of it is really to create a shared space with us together that
2:29.7	steadies the heart, that gives us some grounding in perspective that allows us to hold all that we're going through, all the amazing changes that we couldn't have imagined a couple of months ago that resonated in us and that trigger
2:44.9	us in all kinds of ways and that also become the center of what really matters of how we're living. So to do a meditation practice now, let
2:59.4	yourself sit in a way that is steady, feet flat on the floor, buttocks on a seat, and feel a sense of
3:10.6	groundedness and when you're ready, allow your eyes to close gently.
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