Ep. 198 – Awareness and Intimacy

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this lively episode, Jack dives into how mindfulness, awareness and intimacy help us engage with life more fully.

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"Zen master Dōgen said that to be mindful, to be awake, to pay attention, is the same as intimacy—intimacy with your lover, with your friends, or the sky and the trees, the drought, the grasses, your neighbors, the rhythms of the seasons, your children or parents." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:

Spiritual practice as a path with heart about connecting our spiritual life and worldly life
Using breath to relate with nature and life as movement and a process of change
Understanding the movements of mind and using mindfulness to live more fully
A story involving Jack, a Zen master, and a glass of sake at Naropa
How mindfulness, awareness and intimacy are synonymous
The way Jack personally deals with and gets intimate with loneliness in his life
Meditation as teaching the art of appreciation for what's in front of us
The art of getting intimate with our fear to engage with life more fully

"To enter into one thing in a very personal and immediate way—not with your mind, but your whole being—is to touch everything." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from Spirit Rock in January 1989 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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0:57.1	So Zen Master Dogan said that to be mindful, to be awake, to pay attention, is the same as intimacy,
1:07.6	intimacy with your lover, or your friends, or the sky and the trees, the drought, the grasses,
1:18.6	your neighbors, the rhythms of the season, your children or parents.
1:37.6	This is Ganesh Bremiller, Jacks Media Manager, Content Specialist, and Maka Coffee Sipping Elephant.
1:43.6	Here to get intimate with you this week for Episode 198 Awareness and Intimacy.
1:48.6	Now, the intimacy Jacks talking about here is an interpersonal intimacy. It is an intimacy
1:54.6	with the emotions that we feel, the different things that come up in our lives that we don't
1:59.6	necessarily want to deal with, but through cosying up to them, we can actually go through them
2:05.6	and allow them to dissipate. If we're constantly in a battle trying to push them away, we are
2:10.6	never ever ever going to be able to work with them and actually have a tangible relationship
2:16.6	with them in our lives. The metaphor that I like to use is that of a balloon. When I have some doubt
2:22.6	or restlessness or boredom or worry or depression come up, these are things I want to look at or feel.
2:28.6	So it's like a balloon rising up, a helium balloon at my side at all times.
2:34.6	And as it's coming up into my visual field and it's the thing I'm about to feel, I end up
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