Ep. 200 – Hunger: The Illusion of Incompleteness

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Getting vulnerable about the hungers which afflict our lives, Jack helps us into the nirvana beyond the illusion of incompleteness.

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“In Sanskrit or Pali the word is ‘Trishna,’ which means thirst, desire, wanting. It’s exaggeration, or the realm that it manifests in in the greatest way, is called ‘The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts.’ Hungry Ghosts are pictured as these beings who have huge stomaches and tiny little mouths, so that it’s never possible to get enough in there to ease that hunger.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack vulnerably navigates:

Hunger, abundance, deprivation, indulgence, addiction, and the illusion of incompleteness
Feeling idiotic, depressed, needy, judgmental, sad, lonely, hungry, etc
Trishna—thirst, desire, wanting—and the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts
Samsara and the propulsion of endless wanderings of seperation/seeking
Ajahn Chah and being with what is, rather than struggling against it
Relating wisely and tenderly to Buddha’s First Noble Truth of suffering
Nirvana as the end of cyclical grasping and the illusion that we are incomplete

“Nirvana is the end of cyclic existence, which is to say, the end of grasping and going around in circles looking for something that you are, but haven’t yet touched—the end of the illusion that we are incomplete.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from 02/01/1987 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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0:51.3	slash heart wisdom. If we can learn to relate to these things which are so deep and a time
1:01.8	so painful and so powerful, if we can learn to relate to them with some compassion and
1:09.5	some understanding, every other part of practice will be a piece of cake. This is really
1:15.4	getting down to the to the center of it. That's what Nirvana is about. Nirvana is the end
1:22.4	of cyclic existence in one sense, which is to say the end of grasping and going round
1:28.1	in circles looking for something that you are, but haven't yet touched in some way. The
1:34.2	end of that illusion that we're incomplete.
1:45.4	Hey welcome back fam. This is Ganesh Bramiler, Jack's assistant and latte sipping elephant. Here
1:54.7	to welcome you to special episode 200 of Heart Wisdom. Amazing we've made it this far
2:01.4	unless keep it rolling. This episode is entitled Hunger, the Illusion of Incompleteness. And it's
2:08.2	all about Trishna, the Sanskrit word for thirst, desire, wanting, which I'm sure is something
2:14.8	we've all experienced. Jack it's really vulnerable about his own thirst and wanting. He wanted
2:24.1	to do a talk on abundance and instead just noticed his various hungars for different pleasures
2:30.9	of life. And rather than just doing the talk on abundance, he decided to get real as his
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