Ep. 218 – Caring for Each Other and Our World

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this new Dharma Talk, Jack explores how we can navigate the suffering of the world's conflicts with compassion, understanding, and peace.

This episode is from the Cloud Sangha Community Talk on Dec. 13, 2023. If you would like to join Cloud Sangha to steep in spiritual community, they are offering a 2-week free trial here.

"I think that we are afraid somehow that our own heart is not big enough to hold the tears and suffering of the world." – Jack Kornfield

In this fresh episode, Jack compassionately elucidates:

How compassion is built into us and is absolutely natural
Why the only side Jack is choosing is the side of peace
Ajahn Chah's monastery as a zone of peace during wartime
Opening our heart big enough to hold it all, connecting with the Mother of the world
Pausing, living from our best intention, listening with an open heart, and mending what we can
How when love meets suffering, it transforms into compassion
Seeing the world through the eyes of compassion, and taking a stand for love
How hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed
A powerful guided meditation practice in opening to the heart of compassion
How not to get swallowed up by the collective suffering
Turning off the news, stepping out of the war, and becoming a place of peace, compassion, and loving awareness
Dealing with pain, death, regrets, and "what if's"
Being vulnerable and opening communication with estranged relations
Acting beneficially without attachment to the results of our actions

"It's not your job to fix the world or to stop all the wars. It's your job to do your part, to stand for what matters, to speak and act in a way that represents compassion and love for everyone, to plant seeds to mend the places that you can." – Jack Kornfield

"Love, when it meets suffering, changes to a different quality, which is compassion. It's that quivering of the heart when we feel in ourself other's struggles and difficulties. It's the resonance with them, and the natural upwelling of, 'How can I help?' – Jack Kornfield

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0:57.0	Love when it meets suffering changes into a different quality of heart which is compassion.
1:08.0	It's that quivering the heart when we feel in ourselves or others when we feel their struggles and
1:18.0	their difficulties. It's the resonance with them and the natural upwelling of how can I help. Hello and welcome back to Heart Wisdom, Jack Hornfield's podcast here on Ram Doss's Be Here Now Network.
1:41.5	I'm Ganesh Braymemiller once again coming to you from
1:44.8	Ram Doss's study. I decided to stay here a little longer so please excuse my
1:50.0	sound. I will be back to my normal setup very soon but for now we are going to steep in the
1:56.2	Ram das bave as I share what we have going on this week.
2:00.6	This is episode 218 titled Caring for Each Other and the World,
2:05.0	and this is from a Cloud Songa community event which Jack led
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