Ep. 239 – Heart As Big As the Sky

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Unveiling how to grow your heart as big as the sky, Jack shares the spiritual antidote for aversion, negativity, and fear.

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"Let your heart be as big as your whole experience, like the sky." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

Overcoming aversion by "bringing it into your heart" rather than your rational mind
Touching into emotions, fears, and judgements with compassion instead of aversion
Using techniques like "noting/naming" for moving past intense feelings
Loving your negatives states as you would love your own child
Seeing clearly the karma, value, and consequence of your personal patterns
Who would you be if you dropped your opinions, views, identity?
Growing your heart to the size of the sky
Practicing the 'art of letting go'
Learning to live in the reality 'the Now'
Why Buddha had a better time than most
Painting as a doorway to spiritual experience
Transmuting difficulties by dropping our resistance to them
How to hold healthy views without being attached to them

"In this space of Now, it's not necessary to have fear. In this place of Now, we can rest." – Jack Kornfield

"If we want to create peace, or if we want to live free from greed, hatred and delusion, the place to start is in ourselves." – Jack Kornfield

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This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 1/1/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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1:16.0	space of now, it's not necessary to have fear.
1:25.0	In this place of now, we can rest.
1:29.0	And certainly there'll be views and there'll be opinions.
1:32.0	They're part of being human and having a mind
1:34.9	but you don't have to be so attached or take it so real or seriously which is what the
1:41.1	Buddha discovered he had a much better time than most people.
1:45.0	He didn't suffer because greed or hatred or fear or delusion were not things that he was caught in anymore.
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