Ep. 146 – Setting an Intention of the Heart

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jack Kornfield inspires us with a dialogue on stillness, suffering, and how we can set intentions to help others.

“We stop and try to sit quietly and it's like there is a layer of ice that needs to thaw before the water can even move inside.”

Each year we watch birds come and go; we see stillness and then movement. Sometimes, we forget that humans too are a part of nature. Jack reads us a poem by Pablo Neruda about being still and making each moment exotic. The poem is an invitation to quiet the mind, be present, and live from our hearts. Jack empathizes with how difficult it can be to relish in the stillness of life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour.
0:16.2	We are delighted to share with you Jack's innate common sense wisdom and his clear open
0:22.5	heart.
0:24.3	If you are interested in supporting Jack's podcast, go to beherenownetwork.com slash
0:31.3	Jack.
0:34.3	The question is not the future of humanity, it's said, but the presence of eternity.
0:41.9	To listen in a deeper way.
0:46.6	And as we do, we get to look around a little, both inwardly and outwardly.
0:53.3	I've been watching the migration of the geese before this in the place, Trudy and I,
0:59.9	my beloved, we live on a lagoon near the San Francisco Bay.
1:07.8	Not just the migration, but there's a huge owl.
1:11.7	I believe it's a horned, a great horned owl that's in the oak tree between our house and
1:19.9	a lagoon just a, you know, a few yards outside our window.
1:25.3	And it is.
1:26.3	It's uproosts in the top, it's giant.
1:30.0	It's like the size of ET in the movie and it will turn its head, you know, almost completely
1:35.8	around and it's just astonishing to see it there.
1:39.9	And I'm hoping sometime maybe I'll get to see it or feel it when it leaves and then
1:45.8	comes back again.
1:46.9	My neighbor saw it bringing back some little creature that it had caught and its talents
1:53.5	silently.
1:54.5	But there's a rhythm to the world that's happening around us of the creatures and what Chief
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