Ep. 258 – Enlightenment as Intimacy: Where We're Going is Here

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Speaking to progressing on the spiritual path, Jack explores enlightenment as true intimacy, and shares how: where we’re going is actually here.

“Where we’re going is here, and what we’re after doesn’t exist in time.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

Our idealistic/romantic notions of the spiritual path
Consciousness, impermanence, and working with human emotions
Wisdom stories of Ajahn Chah, Jack’s accomplished Thai meditation teacher
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the legend of building a Spiritual Amusement Park
Progress and patience along the spiritual path
Enlightenment as intimacy with all things
A guided meditation practice reflecting on life, death, and good deeds
Transforming the the world with one small act of kindness at a time
Honoring our own beauty and goodness
How compassion is characterized by true intimacy
Recognizing and coming to our spiritual maturity
Living like a Bodhisattva, and what it really means to ‘save all beings’
Alchemizing extreme suffering, trauma, and grief into compassion, forgiveness, and service

“Enlightenment is to be intimate with what’s here.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from 1/3/1991 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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0:00.0	So the vow, the traditional vow of the Bodysopha is that I will save all beings.
0:07.8	And that's a serious vow to take.
0:09.8	Does that mean I, Jack Cornfield, or I so be a borschine or I John
0:16.9	Travis or whoever I'm going to go out kind of like Superman or Batman or whatever, you know, Wonder Woman in your case.
0:25.0	And save all beings.
0:32.0	Who are all these beings that we're going to save? Are they really separate than ourselves?
0:38.0	If we look deeply at this question, perhaps we discover that it's not how it seems initially,
0:47.2	that maybe one being is all beings. Where we're going is here and what we're after doesn't exist in time.
1:02.0	Says Jack Cornfield in episode 258 of heart wisdom,
1:07.0	Enlightenment as intimacy.
1:10.0	Where we're going is here.
1:12.0	And what a perfect focus for Where we're going is here.
1:13.0	And what a perfect focus for a podcast on the Be Here Now Network,
1:18.6	which was alchemically birthed from the emerging point of Ram Doss's be here now loving awareness
1:25.6	teachings meeting this new technological medium of podcasting which I'm so
1:32.4	grateful we are able to meet within.
1:35.0	So this episode was originally recorded at Spirit Rock on January 3rd, 1991, and is all about breaking, smashing,
1:47.0	and crushing our idealistic, romantic notions of the spiritual path so that we can see clearly and from that place of truth
1:59.5	alchemise our suffering or trauma our difficulties into something that will awaken
2:06.2	compassion, forgiveness, and the heart of Saba, selfless service into our lives so we can bring our unique gifts to the world.
2:16.0	In this talk there is a hilarious story of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Beatles guru, and the idea that he had to build a spiritual amusement park by Disney
2:30.8	World.
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