Ep. 210: Simplicity

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jack explores how meeting our lives with a directness and simplicity helps bring the mind, body, and heart into unity.

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"The spirit of the practice is a unification of the mind with the body and the heart, bringing them all together into one. In that unification, or collectedness, then it becomes possible, when the mind isn't wandering in fantasy of past or future, to see directly and clearly.” – Jack Kornfield

In this Dharma Talk, Jack mindfully illuminates:

Buddha's simple wisdom: "In the seen, there is only the seen. In the heard, there is only the heard. In the sensed, there is only the sensed. In the thought, there is only the thought."
Meeting our practice and the world with a directness and simplicity; bringing the mind, heart, and body into unity
Cultivating an "excruciatingly" precise awareness and paying careful attention so we can see our life process in a new way
The three-sided crystal of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness/insecurity, and selflessness
Suzuki Roshi and the blissful wisdom of simplicity

This Dharma Talk 9/29/1983 at the Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Heart Wisdom, Jack Hornefield's podcast here on Ram Doss's Be Here
0:14.2	Now Network. I'm Ganesh Brehmiller here to welcome you to episode 210 Simplicity.
0:21.8	The set and setting for this episode is September 29, 1983 at the Insight Meditation Society
0:30.0	where Jack was starting a three month meditation retreat. And in this episode, Jack explains how we
0:38.2	can use the blissful wisdom of simplicity to liberate ourselves from what he calls the three-sided
0:45.3	crystal of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and selflessness. In line with the theme of the
0:53.0	episode, I'm going to keep this one simple and drop you right into the episode after letting
0:58.7	you know what Jack has coming up event wise. Mid-November starts a new on-demand journey with Jack
1:07.6	in interactive guided meditation. We've opened one of his courses for a live cohort where you can study
1:17.2	with other students and have two live question and answer sessions with Jack. You can sign up for that
1:25.8	at jackwornfield.com or with the link in the show notes. Then on November 4th, Jack is taking part
1:34.4	in a day long retreat, online, a benefit for spirit rock entitled Loving Presence, Compassion,
1:43.6	and a joyful heart. This is also featuring Trudy Goodman, so anything involving that Dharma duo
1:49.8	is always amazing and heartwarming. Then on November 6th, the power of awareness starts back up.
1:58.2	This is a seven-week training that Jack does with Devon Barry, Conda Mason, and Tara Brock,
2:06.0	and is one of the deeper trainings around mindfulness that you can find online or anywhere for that
2:15.1	matter. November 20th marks Jack's next Dharma talk for spirit rock. This is something that he
2:23.5	offers monthly and it is pay what you can and it is truly the guru bead on the mala for being a
2:30.1	student of Jack. And something very special to announce, Jack does not do many in-person retreats
2:36.7	anymore, but this January he and Trudy along with Lama Sultram Alione, Dr. Dan Siegel,
2:47.0	Soren Gordhamer, and many others will be teaching a week-long retreat at Blue Spirit Costa Rica
2:56.7	entitled Wisdom and Wellbeing. You can find out about all of this at jackwornfield.com on the events
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