Ep. 179 – Feminine Face of Dharma

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield teaches us about fostering femininity in our dharma practice.

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In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses:

The relationship of birth and death
Loving deeply by opening our hearts, bodies, and mind
Moving from the masculine to the feminine
The power of forgiveness

"Part of what's happening to practice is that it is becoming balanced with a greater emphasis of the feminine...instead of independence there's more teaching of interdependence, of relationship to one's body, relationship to the earth." – Jack Kornfield

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0:00.0	Part of what's happening to practice as I experience it in the West is that that becoming
0:10.8	balanced with a greater emphasis or energy of the feminine, which means rather than
0:17.5	the authority people are becoming encouraged to be their own authorities.
0:23.1	Instead of the abbot, there's councils of teachers and councils of boards and so forth
0:28.3	running our centers. Instead of independence, there's more teaching of interdependence
0:34.9	of relationship to one's body rather than removing one's self-friendly relationship to the earth.
0:53.2	Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour.
0:57.3	We are delighted to share with you Jack's innate common sense wisdom and his clear open heart.
1:05.4	If you are interested in supporting Jack's podcast, go to beherenownetwork.com slash Jack.
1:13.9	So in response to my appeal to your thinking minds, I received many, many notes, many,
1:34.8	many, many, many, many, many notes. Notes and notes and notes and notes. It's dangerous
1:50.8	that thought factory that thinking mind. I think my favorite note was someone who pointed
1:59.2	out how many more people are sitting in chairs and wondered whether there wasn't some
2:05.0	bit of phenomena of the body snatchers going on here that we used to sit as yogis in the
2:12.0	old style and then the chairs somehow attract us to them or maybe it's just the aging of the
2:19.2	Sangha they suggested. Or a lot of the chairs a little bit like starfish, you know, reaching out to
2:27.5	the sea urchants and taking us into them. What do we think about the changing of Buddhism in the West?
2:35.3	So there were notes asking for more stories, notes asking for speaking about trust or love or art.
2:49.2	Stories about real people living the Dharma, not misalogical ones, forgiveness, beginner's mind,
2:55.2	Dharma in the West, compassion judging, family and children as practice, striving the sure hearts release.
3:05.2	Why not live in a monastery and go for it? How to live the eightfold path in the world? Practice at home.
3:15.2	What is the source of the breath? Why is intention important to be aware of? Selflessness and anata, urgency on one side,
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