Ep. 217 – The Way Buddha Answered Questions

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this unique exploration of Dharma, Jack shares how we can transform our daily lives by looking into how the Buddha answered questions.

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"This talk on the way the Buddha answered questions is not to give you another talk on Buddhist history, but to connect us with the ancient timeless endeavor of practice, of awakening, and the ways human beings over many centuries have worked with the development of their understanding." – Jack Kornfield

In this illuminating episode, Jack highlights:

How the way Buddha answered questions is relevant to living in our modern times
Buddha's ancient sutras, talks, and Q&As, and how those teachings have touched the world
Buddha's vision of mind and ability to understand the psyche, how it gets entangled, and how we can become free
The "one taste" of Dharma and our capacity for inner-freedom
Illuminating the reality of non-self
How the teachings of the Dharma turn the mind back to one's own personal experience
The radical way of seeing the world through a lens that is not, "I, me, mine."
How to live fully whether we have one life or many lives to live
Buddha's view of the "world on fire" and how to work with this in our daily lives
How to work with contradictions along the spiritual path
Continuity and carrying our practice and presence into the day in an enjoyable way

"The essence of Dharma is how we love moment to moment." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from October 1983 at Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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1:31.6	I'm Ganesh Brahmaeler welcoming you to episode
1:34.1	217 the way the Buddha answered questions. I'm sorry if my sound is a little off.
1:40.1	I am currently up in Ram Dass's study and not on my normal microphone that I have back home in Colorado.
1:50.0	I came here to Maui for the Ram Dass retreat to help Jack with some things and to steep in the bave fill my cup for the coming year and decided to stay. So I am here right now on Hahnemann Maui,
2:04.6	Ram Doss's old house, where Dossi Ma
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