Ep. 254 – Healing the Unfinished Business of the Heart

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Revealing how to calm the mind through meditation, Jack shares wisdom on self-acceptance, trust, and healing the unfinished business of the heart.

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“Don’t live in the mind, rest in the heart and let the mind come and go as it will. This is discovering your Buddha Nature.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

Working with the ‘unfinished business of the heart’ – grief, sorrows, longing, wounds, loss
Honoring life’s ‘ocean of tears’ with love and kind attention
Cultivating the courage to allow your heart to be broken
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the tender heart of a warrior
Self-acceptance, allowing yourself to feel, and reawakening a trust in yourself
Healing the mind by seeing clearly and not taking it so seriously
Resting the in heart and letting the mind come and go
Discovering Your Buddha Nature, your fundamental ground of being
The technique of seeing the world as enlightened, and the path as yours
The healing encased within understanding emptiness, selflessness, and letting go
Meditation as a truly courageous act

“The problem with the mind mostly is that we take it seriously.” – Jack Kornfield

“Healing of the mind is when we can hold in our hearts all that arises, and sense a rest and a goodness, a wholeness in us.” – Jack Kornfield

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0:15.0	Together they'll discuss overcoming imposter syndrome, teaching meditation,
0:20.0	and Darma Moon's renowned mindfulness renowned Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program.
0:24.4	Visit darmamoon.com slash be here now for more info and to reserve your spot for the free online event
0:31.2	with David Nick Turn and Duncan Trussle. of the mind is when we can hold in our hearts all that arises and sense a rest and a kind of goodness,
0:50.7	a wholeness in us, where the thoughts come and the imaginations and the hopes and the fears,
0:56.6	and we don't live in the mind, we rest in the heart and let the mind come and go as it will. This is discovering our Buddha nature. It's
1:06.2	discovering something so fundamental to us that we often lose sight of it, the
1:12.4	ground of our being.
1:15.0	The problem with the mind is mostly that we take it seriously, says Jack Cornfield in episode
1:27.9	254 of heart wisdom, healing the unfinished business of the heart.
1:34.2	This one closes out a two-part series
1:36.9	which took place in late December 1991,
1:41.3	all about the potentiality of healing through meditation, healing through listening
1:47.4	in to ourselves.
1:50.5	Jack in this shares about how we've been taught not to feel and so we've closed down and
1:56.2	lost a connection to the things that we really care about and in acceptance of ourselves.
2:04.0	Have you noticed that when you sit down for meditation
2:08.0	or even lay down to relax sometimes, all of this stuff, this luch, I don't want to deal with this right now starts coming up.
2:17.0	Yeah, the heart has some unfinished business.
2:21.0	Sometimes it's just, you know, the random pieces of things that need to be
2:26.8	processed from the day, little housekeeping. Other times it's these giant things that we've really pushed down or maybe life moved too fast and we weren't able to process it in the time and so here it is and I would assume the deeper we go
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