Ep. 213 – Don Juan Meets Buddha: Becoming a Spiritual Warrior

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Connecting the Buddha's wisdom with the teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda's infamous Yaqui shaman, Jack explores how to become a spiritual warrior.

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"There's a mysterious beauty that surrounds those individuals who live their lives as warriors, as men or women of knowledge." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:

How Buddha's factors of enlightenment (qualities of awakening) connect with Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda's infamous teacher and Yaqui shaman and sorcerer
Don Juan's wisdom of the 'Way of the Warrior' in relation to Buddhism
The qualities of living as a spiritual warrior: impeccability/wholeness, wise effort/energy, courage/investigation, controlled-folly (play/lightness), strength/concentration, and steadfastness/unshakeableness
Shamanism and cutting through our sense of separation into the root of consciousness
Finding inner-freedom by learning how to stop our internal dialogue

"The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse." – Carlos Castaneda (Author of The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge)

This talk from 12/31/1983 at Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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1:11.0	episode 213 Don Don Juan meets Buddha, becoming a spiritual warrior.
1:18.6	This one was recorded in 1983 on New Year's right at the cusp of 84 and actually holds a really special
1:27.5	place in my heart because lo and behold Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan books were potentially what I would consider in this lifetime
1:38.8	the first step onto the spiritual path for me. I was in college I had just become interested in
1:45.2	psychedelics and that opened up a lot of different curiosities for me around
1:51.4	philosophy and wisdom and what reality was.
1:55.0	But I didn't really know where to look.
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