Ep. 219 – How to Meditate When You Are Freaking Out with Yung Pueblo and Dan Harris
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author, Yung Pueblo, and reporter, Dan Harris, join Jack to dive into how to love without grasping, Ram Dass's humor at his own predicament, and how to meditate when you are freaking out.
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"The point of meditation practice isn't to withdraw from the world or become a monastic, but it's the possibility to live and take the activities of our life and bring them alive through loving kindness, compassion, and care for yourself and others. People sometimes think if I'm supposed to serve, I have to take care of everybody else, but the circle of compassion is only complete when it also includes yourself." – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack, Yung Pueblo, and Dan Harris dive into:
- Jack and Yung Pueblo's connection to create Wisdom Ventures to bring compassion and right livelihood to business
- How the circle of compassion is only complete when you also include yourself
- Ram Dass' vulnerability, and how having a sense of humor about one's own predicament and being amused at our neurotic humanness is actually what truly liberates us
- Meditation as an act of care and listening which allows intuition and understanding
- The importance of community and why meditating in groups holds a different and usually higher resonance than meditating alone
- Skillful ways to handle conflict and difficult situations
- How to love family, partners, and friends openhandedly rather than with attachment and grasping
"Meditation is not a grim duty, it's meant to be an act of care. And we live in a culture that's forgotten how we can take care of ourself. And one part of that care, even though at first it feels unfamiliar, is just to be quiet for a little bit and listen. Then there are things in us that we know—intuitions and understandings that come for how to navigate our life from what really matters." – Jack Kornfield
This conversation originally aired on the Ten Percent Happier Podcast with Dan Harris. If you enjoy this, Dan Harris has a new series – Non-Negotiables in the New Year – where he interviews celebrities and dharma experts to discuss their time tested, research-backed advice to get you through the new year and beyond. Listen here!
About Yung Pueblo:
Diego Perez is a meditator and #1 New York Times bestselling author who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name, Yung Pueblo. Online he has an audience of over 3 million people. His writing focuses on the power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves. Learn more at YungPueblo.com
About Dan Harris:
A skeptical journalist, Dan Harris had a panic attack on live TV that sent him on a journey that led him to try something he otherwise wouldn't have considered: meditation. He went on to write the best-selling book, 10% Happier. The show features interviews with top scientists, celebrities and experts in the field of mindfulness. And Dan's approach is seemingly modest, but secretly radical: happiness is a skill you can train, just like working your bicep in the gym. For more Dan check out podcast, Ten Percent Happier, and visit his website TenPercent.com
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| 0:04.0 | As we tend to the Garden of our Lives this New Year's, |
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| 0:57.0 | Meditation practices and to withdraw from the world or become a monastic, |
| 1:05.0 | although that's a beautiful choice some people make. |
| 1:08.0 | But it's the possibility actually to live and take the activities of our life |
| 1:12.0 | and bring them alive through loving kindness and passion and care for yourself and others. |
| 1:18.8 | People sometimes think that okay if I'm supposed to serve I have to take care of everybody else but the |
| 1:24.9 | circle of compassion is only complete when it also includes yourself so part of |
| 1:31.3 | practice or right livelihood or spiritual path is not only how do you care for your family community, |
| 1:37.0 | but how do you do it in a way that also nourishes your own heart or supports you, |
| 1:42.8 | and those actually can come together in a beneficial way. Hello and welcome to Heart Wisdom Jack's Pieder |
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