Ep. 214 – Right Attitude

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Exploring the liberating step of Right Attitude, Jack illuminates how we can break free from our automatic habits by becoming fully conscious of them.

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"There's a strength of heart that comes when we don't just follow our habit. It's a strengthening of heart that brings a sense of wellbeing or purity. Because we begin to train ourselves that we don't have to follow all our habits and all our desires." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

Right Attitude / Right Thought as one of the steps on the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
The three aspects of Right Attitude: openness/exploration, renunciation/effort, love/non-harming
Working with our unique personality in this incarnation
The importance of adding fire to our spiritual practice
Breaking free from our automatic habits by bringing conscious awareness to them
Ram Dass and becoming a "connoisseur or your neurosis"
Transforming our life from automatic pilot to being fully conscious
The story of Larry Brilliant helping cure smallpox and what he learned about surrender and interconnectivity

"I think love really manifests when things get difficult. That's when you really know it. That's the fire that melts whatever barriers we ever have in our hearts. And our hearts want to be melted. The pain isn't so bad; it's much better than having it still solid and barricaded." – Jack Kornfield

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0:54.0	Hello and
0:55.0	Hello and
0:58.0	Hello and welcome to Jack Cornfield's Heart Wisdom Hour here on Ram Doss's Be Here Now Network.
1:08.0	I am Ganesh Bremiller, welcoming you to episode 214, Right Attitude.
1:14.4	Now, Right Attitude refers to one of the steps on Buddha's noble 8fold path,
1:20.0	also known as Right Thought or Wise Thought.
1:23.3	As I was spelunking the archives to find a podcast for the week,
1:27.6	this one really jumped out because I had never heard of it
1:30.8	considered Right Attitude. And through that lens his main focus
1:35.2	this entire episode is how we can break free from our automatic habits from our
1:40.4	autopilot by living fully conscious in them and adding some fire to our practice.
1:49.3	Firstly living consciously within our habits not trying to push them away, not damning ourselves for doing
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