Ep. 250 – The Practice of Meditation with Jeffrey Mishlove
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode originally airing on television’s Thinking Allowed series, Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Jack Kornfield about meditation, mindfulness, and self-acceptance.
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“The purpose of meditation is to make people happy.” – Jack Kornfield
In this special television episode, Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Jack about:
- How western psychology and science fits together with eastern spirituality and meditation
- Whether Jack preferred getting his Ph.D. or his time at the Buddhist monastery
- The three aspects of Buddhist practice: generosity, ethics/virtue, training of heart/mind
- How what we practice, positive or negative, grows in our life
- Spiritual bypass and mediation as an escape
- Vipassana meditation and seeing clearly
- Overcoming the “near enemies” in Buddhism
- Equanimity, balance, centering, and fearlessness
- Meditation in action and engaging mindfully with the world
- Facing our fears and confronting ourselves in meditation practice
- Self-acceptance and learning to care for oneself
- Not being so afraid of what’s painful
- Uncovering the basic mechanics of meditation
- Releasing tensions, unskillful concepts, and our limited sense of self
- Psychic abilities and intuition
- Awareness and moving past our thoughts
- Using meditation to relate deeper to your inner life
“Meditative awareness has a healing quality to it.” – Jeffrey Mishlove
“One of the tenets of Buddhism is that the heart, body, and mind can all be trained. That is, if you practice something, it will gradually grow in your life.” – Jack Kornfield
About Jeffrey Mishlove:
Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, an accomplished radio and television interviewer, and one of the most erudite and articulate personalities on television. Jeffrey holds the only doctoral diploma in parapsychology to be awarded by an accredited American university. Learn more about Dr. Mishlove and his ongoing offerings and interviews at newthinkingallowed.com
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| 1:14.0 | Hey there and welcome back to heart wisdom Jack Horne's podcast on the Be Here Now Network. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm Ganesh, and this is episode 250, The Practice of Meditation with Jeffrey Mishlove and this is a really cool one. This is |
| 1:37.9 | footage which originally aired on television in what I'm assuming is the late 80s for a show called Thinking |
| 1:46.4 | aloud. I'm a bit too young to have known about the show when it aired but |
| 1:52.4 | finding out about it recently and diving into the |
| 1:56.5 | content I was really blown away by the fact that Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove was able to in a time period where |
| 2:08.0 | spirituality and Buddhism and parapsycology and manifestation and all of these different things were really on the edge. |
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