Ep. 253 – Healing Through Meditation: An In-Body Experience

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Exploring healing through meditation, Jack shares on kundalini, addiction, suffering, and the transformation of having an ‘in body experience.’

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“You have heard of ‘out of the body experiences,’ but what we’re after is something more unusual and important, an ‘in the body experience.'” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:

Finding strength, wakefulness, and compassion amidst it all
The Coconut Monk and the Jesus-Buddha connection
Finding compassion and joy despite suffering and war
Healing—what it is, how it arises, and how we can connect with it
Listening and respect as the ground for healing
Finding and living a path with heart
Mindfulness, breath, attention, noting, and the Buddha
Meditation and having an ‘in-body experience’
Kundalini and opening the energy body
Learning to handle both pleasure and pain
Buddha and finding the Middle Way
The healing of reconnecting with our senses and world around us
What addictions really mean in an addicted society
Facing our suffering as the gateway to the precious mystery of life
Reading children’s direct messages to God

“There’s a healing that comes just in reconnecting with the senses and the world around us.” – Jack Kornfield

“As we begin to practice together, we can sense that meditation and spiritual work is to bring a heartfelt awareness to our life, and out of this there comes an awakening or opening, which we call healing.” – Jack Kornfield

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This episode recorded in late December 1991 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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1:00.4	We've been so busy in our lives seeking things.
1:05.0	You know what George Bernard Shaw said,
1:08.0	there are two great disappointments in life,
1:11.0	not getting what you want and getting it, right?
1:15.0	And so we've been so busy trying to get things.
1:19.0	It's endless in some way.
1:21.0	And in doing so, we lose touch with the world that's right here in front of us that's
1:28.6	so alive. We lose this sense of color and texture and taste because we're busy looking for something else.
1:35.6	Hey there and welcome back to Jack Cornfield's Heart Wisdom podcast
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