Ep. 162 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Action
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Exploring Right Action and the Five Precepts, Jack offers modern Buddhist insight on ahimsa, virtue, happiness, drugs, sex, and samadhi.
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Continuing a series of talks illuminating the Noble Eightfold Path, Jack sheds light on a prominent aspect of Buddhism: Right Action. Taking you on a journey through the Five Precepts by sharing deep and entertaining stories and insights, Jack offers wisdom around ahimsa (non-harming), reflects on witnessing a transformation prayer from Mad Bear of the Iroquois Nation, and relays down-to-earth Middle Way guidance around drugs, sex, and samadhi.
"Look in your life at what it is that makes you more conscious rather than less conscious. Rather than running away or deluding yourself, what brings you face to face with life and wakes you up? Cultivate that." – Jack Kornfield
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| 0:51.2 | Look in your life at what it is that makes you more conscious, rather than less conscious, |
| 1:00.1 | rather than running away or deluding yourself, what brings you face to face with life, and |
| 1:05.6 | wakes you up, and cultivate that. |
| 1:21.2 | Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour. |
| 1:25.1 | We are delighted to share with you Jack's innate common sense wisdom and his clear open heart. |
| 1:33.2 | If you are interested in supporting Jack's podcast, go to beherenownetwork.com slash |
| 1:40.6 | Jack. |
| 1:43.4 | Focusing on the Eightfold Path, which is a teaching that the Buddha gave in the very first afternoon |
| 1:53.2 | of his teaching when he met his old friends who he'd been practicing with in the forest |
| 1:59.8 | before he went off alone to seek his last stage of his practice of enlightenment. |
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