Ep. 240 – How to Unlock True Abundance
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Sharing the blueprint for how to unlock true abundance, Jack reveals the secrets of letting go of greed, embracing generosity, and appreciating simplicity in life.
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"Abundance isn't about how much you have, but how much you appreciate. – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- How to let go of our greed and live in true abundance
- The Buddhist notion of "dana" – generosity, service, open-hearted caring
- Greed as a strategy of impoverishment, rejection, and incompleteness
- Transforming our 'endless wanting' into a beneficial awakened dance with the world
- Expressing the Tao, the harmony of the universe, through our being
- The Dharmic alchemy of the Bodhisattva
- Meditation, listening, and finding out what we truly want in this life
- Where Suzuki Roshi meets Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- How abundance of the spirit connects with simplicity rather than things
- A personal story of Jack taking his unique Bodhisattva Vows in the Rocky Mountains while teaching at Chögyam Trungpa's Naropa University
- Taking your strong, grounded, noble seat that can handle it all
- How being there for others is abundance in their life
- The generosity and delight of authentically giving – things, space, silence, listening, attention, commitment, honesty, smiles, blessings
- Ram Dass and Maharajji's lesson of "feed people, love people."
- Is "selfless service" actually selfless?
"Abundance of the spirit doesn't mean things; it means discovering a kind of simplicity of our life where we're abundant in any circumstance." – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk estimated to be recorded on 3/1/1990 was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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| 0:42.0 | Some people have confused it and think that abundance means wanting and getting. |
| 0:43.0 | Abundance, if you think abundantly, |
| 0:46.0 | you'll get all the money you want. |
| 0:48.0 | You know, you'll get a big house, you'll get a new fancy car, |
| 0:51.0 | you'll get the splendid partner that you deserve on this earth or whatever. |
| 0:57.0 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:58.0 | That that's supposed to be called... |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, right. You do know, huh? That's supposed to be called abundance. You know what that is? That's |
| 1:10.9 | greed. That's wanting. That's not abundance at all. |
| 1:16.7 | And then you go out and you test it to see if you tune to the right state. You go and see if you can |
| 1:21.7 | create a parking space just where you want it, you know? |
| 1:25.2 | Right? |
| 1:27.2 | That's not true abundance because it's connected with things and trying to get or possess things. |
| 1:39.0 | True abundance and true generosity is a thing of the spirit. It has nothing to do with the |
| 1:47.9 | outer things at all. Hello and welcome back to Heart Wisdom, the flowing spring of Jack Cornfield, |
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