Ep. 267 – Wise Speech, Speaking with Intention, Listening with Compassion

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Exploring how compassionate speech and mindful listening can transform our lives, Jack shares how we can navigate culture’s web of lies by using the energy of Wise Speech to truly awaken.

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“[Wise Speech] is really about compassion—it’s being aware of the power of speech, and using it to express what is conscious and what brings freedom.” – Jack Kornfield

Exploring the third step of the Eightfold Path, Jack mindfully shares on:

Wise Speech / Right Speech as a factor of awakening
Compassion, non-harming, and embodying Buddha Nature
Ram Dass’s “Hopi-Hippie Be-In” and what it means to ‘speak the truth’
Navigating culture’s and advertising’s web of lies
Speaking from your deepest truth and knowing
Buddha and using the energy of speech to awaken
What it means to truly listen to another human being
Compassionate communication and listening
Discerning your intention and motivation when talking to people
Speaking like a Buddha and treasuring our speech
The simple pleasure of talking and communication
Using your words for justice, truth, love, and wisdom
Letting go of pride and needing to be right
A “Wise Speech” guided meditation
Chanting the seed syllable “Ah”

“The key to listening and speaking wisely is the intention—our intention to learn, to discover, to hear something that we haven’t understood.” – Jack Kornfield

“The possibility, if we are to live an awakened life, is to foster that speech that comes from our deeper knowing.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk recorded in 1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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0:00.0	Karma is one of the most significant and misunderstood concepts in Buddhism.
0:06.0	It's not just about fate or blame, it's about the patterns of our habits, the internal scripts we follow,
0:12.0	and how we can begin to change them through awareness and practice.
0:16.0	Join acclaimed teachers Ethan Nicktern and Saad de Simone on Wednesday, December 11th at 6 p.m. Eastern
0:22.6	time for a free online talk, Demystifying karma, unpacking its cultural misconceptions,
0:29.4	and sharing practical tools for working with karma and meditation and daily life.
0:34.1	You'll also hear about Dharma Moon's year-long Buddhist studies course starting in January 2025,
0:39.9	a transformative 12-month journey into contemporary Buddhist practice and wisdom.
0:44.8	Visit Dharmamoon.com slash karma.
0:48.0	That's Dharmamoon.com slash karma for more information and to reserve your spot for the free event. To be on a spiritual journey or to fulfill our Buddha nature is to discover that we can awaken in every dimension of life.
1:14.6	And words are an important part of our human dimension.
1:18.0	The poet Muriel Ruckheiser puts it this way.
1:18.8	She said,
1:22.2	The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
1:27.4	The stories we tell ourselves the thoughts that generate this world.
1:48.5	The possibility if we are to live an awakened life is to foster that speech that comes from our deeper knowing, says Jack Cornfield in episode 267 of heart wisdom,
1:57.5	wise speech, speaking with intention, listening with compassion. This is another one in the 1992 series we have been doing from Spirit Rock all on the eightfold path.
2:03.6	This is the next consecutive step, but as Jack always says, this is a mandala teaching.
2:11.6	Yes, there is some beautiful benefit to going step by step, but we can dive into any part of the path and get good benefit,
2:20.3	reward, and wisdom. We took a small break from this series in order to dive into two fresh
2:27.3	video episodes. Those were the last two heart wisdoms, and those were all about the election. And no, not about the greater political sphere or the personalities within it,
2:40.0	but about how we as individuals can handle whatever is happening politically,
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