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Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour. We are delighted to share with you Jack's

innate common sense wisdom and his clear open heart. If you are interested in supporting Jack's

podcast, go to beherenownetwork.com slash Jack. Let yourself find a way to set

that's stable and comfortable where you can sit upright with a sense of alertness.

At the same time, a graciousness in his, like the king or queen on the throne,

you take your seat here halfway between heaven and earth in this human form and invite a sense of

stillness and openness. Tonight our meditation practice will have the qualities of

equanimity and compassion, and to begin with, I invite you to reflect on the value of a peaceful

heart. And what does it like to have a peaceful heart among the worldly winds of praise and blame

and gain and loss, the pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, fame and disrepute,

birth and death. These are the worldly winds that constantly change

to have a peaceful heart in the midst of the mall.

Steady, spacious, open. This is the invitation. As it says in the Tao, there's a time for being

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