And when we look as parents, when we become parents or look at others, what's most astonishing

to see is how what comes out of us, like automatic pilot, is what was done to us.

And we repeat it, unless we learn consciously another way.

Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour.

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The only way to speak about parenting that really matters is to speak from the heart.

When the Buddha first started his own teaching, he began with the first noble truth, the basic

truth of suffering and its cause and the freedom that we can come to if we understand the

suffering in life.

In some way it is the duty of a Dharma teacher to speak about that, which is true.

There is, of course, both joy and suffering in parenting.

But parenting in America is in crisis.

Sometimes it's a terrible thing to go to parks and supermarkets, especially if you have

a little kid and you bring them there to play at the park or take them around the market.

And you see some two-year-old walking down the aisle in the supermarket with their mother,

knock over something accidentally and the parent come back and smack the kid and yell

at them and say, don't you dare do that.

And the kid is kind of shaking up and saying, doesn't even understand because they knocked

it over accidentally.

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