Ep. 196 – The Art of Paying Attention

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Illuminating the art of paying attention, Jack shares hilarious stories and mindful insights around how we can let go into the present.

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"To learn the art of paying attention requires some practice, that we learn how to sit and steady ourselves, to steady our bodies, and listen with a steadiness of heart, to actually be with what is here in our experience—pleasant and unpleasant, beautiful and ugly. That's what sitting is about, really, is to sit and be with the 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows, to see them, feel them, and let ourselves be as we are." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack artfully illuminates:

How your spiritual path is truly in your own hands; other's can point the way, but you must walk it
The Buddha's four aspects of Right Effort
Learning the art of paying attention, and applying this to sit with life's 10,000 joys and sorrows
The Samurai way of going through the path of fire
Jack's hilarious personal experience solving koans on Zen retreats
Letting go into the present moment (while still acting in the world)

"As one Zen master says, 'Just put it down, put everything down. Just be here and forget about the past and future. That's enough.'" – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma talk from March 13, 1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed

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0:51.3	slash heart wisdom. To pay attention, to learn the art of paying attention requires some
1:04.1	practice that we learn how to sit and steady ourselves, to steady our bodies, and to
1:11.1	steady, to listen with the steadiness of our heart, to actually be with what is here in
1:17.4	our experience, pleasant and unpleasant, beautiful and ugly, the 10,000 joys and 10,000
1:24.5	sorrows as it's called. And that's what sitting is about, really, is to sit and be with the
1:33.3	10,000 joys and sorrows, and see them, and feel them, and let ourselves be as we are.
1:48.4	Welcome back, our wisdom fam. This is once again your honored host, Ganesh Braimiller,
1:52.8	Jack's Media Manager, Content Specialist, and Elk Align Water Sipping Elephant. Here
1:57.2	to offer some reflections up front on this week's episode, The Art of Paying Attention.
2:02.2	This week, we are back to regularly scheduled programming, with a hand plucked dharma talk
2:06.6	from 1989, where Jack offers hilarious stories and mindful insights on how we can let go
2:11.6	into the present moment. So let's mark this monologue off right with a quote from Jack.
2:16.7	To learn the art of paying attention requires practice, that we learn to sit and study
2:20.7	ourselves, our bodies, and listen with the steadiness of heart, to actually be with what is
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