Ep. 221 – A Life of Awareness

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack illuminates the law of karma and shares how we can overcome habits in order to live a life of awareness.

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"To live a life of awareness asks a lot of us—it asks that we know ourselves, know our feelings, and know our hearts." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack compassionately outlines:

How to move past our karmas to live a life of awareness
Listening inside to find integrity with our words, actions, and hearts
Buddha's emphasis on working with our feelings to find freedom
How not to get caught in reaction to the 'Eight Worldly Winds'
Understanding the law of karma and law of change
Overcoming our habits and shaping our future with awareness
Understanding our motivations in our actions
Discerning between feelings in the body and our mind's stories
Diffusing overpowering emotions with awareness

"The first part of karma is simply that things keep changing, and that how we respond to them creates our future. What's in our hearts that motivates us, creates how the future will be." – Jack Kornfield

"Wisdom—understanding, living wisely—comes from the cultivation of awareness." – 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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0:58.5	The first part of karma is simply that things keep changing, and that how we respond to them creates our future.
1:07.0	What's in our hearts that motivates us creates how the future will be. For example, you can have a knife and cut someone.
1:19.3	If you're a surgeon doing it and your motivation is to heal, you get a certain kind of karma.
1:27.0	If you're a murderer using that knife, you get a very different kind of karma.
1:34.0	It's not the action which creates what our future will be,
1:40.0	but it's the intention in the heart and the mind.
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