Ep. 220 – Awareness of Feelings, Mindfulness of Food

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this New Years episode exploring how we can revolutionize our lives by becoming aware of our feelings, Jack talks clear seeing and gives instructions for an eating meditation.

"If you become aware of your feelings, they don't last very long. We feel like we're angry for a day, or sad for a week, or happy for a month, or grieving for a while—as if those feelings lasted that long. But if you look closely and you let yourself feel what's here and pay attention, feelings rarely last more than thirty seconds, maybe a minute, and then then turn into something else. Guaranteed. If you have some feeling that feels like it's lasted much longer than that, you haven't paid attention to it." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:

The practice of awareness, mindfulness, and paying attention
Working with the inevitability of change, impermanence, and death
Clear seeing, clear comprehension, and integrity
Mindfulness of the process of eating, food, diet, and hunger
Instructions for an 'eating meditation'
Discerning the voices in our head and choosing the most skillful one to follow
Using 'noting' and 'tracking' to become aware of our feelings and diffuse their grip on us

"When we remember that things change, when we can see it in front of us from moment to moment, it effects deeply the way that we live. If we know that things are really fleeting, it brings a quality or a care to our attention to know where we are. Because we realize that this may be the only time—in fact it is the only time—that we'll be in this day, in this moment, in this circumstance. So one tends to live less automatically if we remember the fact of change, of impermanence and death." – Jack Kornfield

This talk from New Years Day 1/1/1988 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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0:00.0	It's to be present enough, to be aware enough, to start to hear those voices, to be aware of what's going on, and see which one you follow. Which of those are you listening to?
0:16.0	And then as you get more aware, you start to see the suitability. Is that the most skillful voice? Is that the voice that I might best follow but you can't
0:26.8	know that until you become aware of what you are feeling and what's going on.
0:32.6	Hello and welcome back to Jack Kornfield's Heart Wisdom
0:45.4	podcast nestled in its home here on Ram Doss's Be Here Now Network.
0:50.3	I am Ginesh, Jack's assistant, welcoming you to a special New Year's episode,
0:55.8	Awareness of feelings, mindfulness of food.
0:59.6	This took place at Spirit Rock on New Year's Day of 1988 and goes into some pretty pivotal things
1:07.1	that come up in our lives around holiday times, at least for me. I definitely found myself when I was with my family caught up in a lot of my feelings.
1:18.0	I was feeling trapped in a lot of different situations and I called Jack Up and I explained to him what
1:25.9	I had going on and why I was in such a curfluffle.
1:30.5	And one of the things he said to me was that conditions change very quickly.
1:36.6	And one of the main things in this podcast when he was talking about awareness of feelings
1:42.4	is that if you become aware of your feelings
1:45.2	they don't actually last that long. If we consistently lament over them and
1:51.6	revivify the story, yeah, they're going to keep popping back up.
1:55.3	But what he states here is that if you mindfully become aware and note the feeling,
2:01.4	you'll notice it goes away pretty quickly.
2:04.0	In permanence, in this sense, is on our side.
2:08.0	Also tying into the holidays, one could say that food is an issue or more so a relationship with food.
2:18.0	I find myself when I go home to see family thrown back into old cycles. It's like all of a sudden there's all these
2:27.2	like cookies from grandma around and his chips and pies and I'm trying to dissociate from things and yeah I'm sure
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