Ep. 192 – Spirituality and Sexuality (Part 2)

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Plunging further into last week's topic, Jack offers vulnerable perspectives on how sexuality and relationships play into our life and practice.

"If one wants to understand karma, or one wants to understand virtue, ethics, or morality—which are equally important and profound in developing a spiritual life—the way to do it is very simple: it's beginning to know, observe, feel, and understand what's going on in our hearts as we act." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack vulnerably explores:

Understanding karma, virtue, intention and action
How so much of our sadhana and practice comes through our relationships
Learning about ourselves and the universe through sex and relationship
Sex and relationship as a form of opening and surrender, as well as commitment, offering, acceptance, growth, and healing
Desire, grasping, reality, love, and the present moment
Relationships as a place to find the foundations of mindfulness
The nature of love as expression, growth, and unity

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0:51.5	So if one wants to understand karma, or wants to understand virtue or ethics or morality,
1:04.8	which is something equally important and profound in developing a spiritual life, the way to
1:12.7	do it is very simple. It's beginning to know, and observe, and feel, and understand what's
1:22.0	going on in our hearts as we act.
1:32.8	Hey there, heart wisdom fam, and welcome back to the Be Here Now Network. I'm your host,
1:36.7	Ganesh Bremiller, Jack's Media Manager, Content Specialist, and Passion Flower Sipping
1:41.4	Elephant. Here to welcome you to the second part of a two-part series, all about how sexuality
1:47.2	and relationships intersect with our daily life and spiritual practice. Now, I have to admit,
1:52.6	we may be pushing the envelope here a little with some spice in recent episodes, moving from
1:57.9	Shogam Trump or Rinpoche into two sex focused podcasts, and in the coming weeks we'll have the
2:03.4	hot off the press episode of Jack Talking with Sam Altman of Chat GBT about AI in the future,
2:10.6	as well as a funky fresh episode where Jack is interviewed inside of a sauna by influencer
2:16.3	Prince EA. But with this being Rom Doss' network, why personally truly love for his raw
2:22.6	vulnerability and what with us all being souls having a fleshy human experience, I think it's
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