Ep. 268 – Holiday Special Pt. 1 – Rediscovering Your Secret Beauty and Sharing Your Special Gift
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this cozy holiday special, Jack sheds seasonal tidings on how to rediscover the secret beauty within you and share your special gifts with the world.
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“What you most deeply long for is who you are, is coming back to your own heart, to your own beauty, your own wellbeing that you were born with, to that secret beauty.” – Jack Kornfield
In part 1 of this special holiday video series, Jack merrily explores:
- The spiritual meaning of the Winter Solstice, the turning of the seasons, and the holidays
- How Jack’s teacher Ajahn Chah reacted when a Christmas Tree was put up in the Monastery
- Reconnecting with the great mystery of the world and with each other
- How to deal with your family with compassion, equanimity, and peace
- Seeing the secret beauty behind the eyes of everyone you meet
- Moving past the body of fear, the small sense of self
- The paradox of spiritual practice: you’re perfect and there’s room for improvement
- Rediscovering the love and secret beauty within you
- Cultivating dignity, presence, generosity, clarity, integrity, meaning, compassion, trust
- Bringing the mind and body together in the present
- Loving awareness and entering the wisdom stream
- Manifesting love and understanding into this world
- A Hawaiian story on how to bring your special gift
- Ram Dass, Mother Teresa, service, and allowing yourself to be taken care of
- Moving past fear politics and becoming a force of connection and love
“To meditate, more than anything, is an invitation to remember, to quiet ourselves, to touch back in to this truth, this reality beyond the busyness, fears, and confusion we have because we’re human.” – Jack Kornfield
“Meditation and spiritual practice is not meant to be a grim duty, it’s meant to be a rediscovery of the love and secret beauty that’s within you.” – Jack Kornfield
This episode was originally recorded for the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation Livestream on 12/14/15. Learn more about Spirit Rock’s offerings at SpiritRock.org. Join Jack’s next livestream at JackKornfield.com/events
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| 0:00.0 | This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. |
| 0:04.8 | What's your favorite way to stay cozy and comfortable during the holidays? |
| 0:09.1 | Do you like curling up with a book? |
| 0:11.3 | Baking some sweets to snack on. |
| 0:13.6 | Watching a favorite movie with the family. |
| 0:16.6 | Therapy is a great way to bring yourself some comfort that never goes away, |
| 0:20.6 | even when the season changes. |
| 0:22.6 | It can help you learn to set boundaries, change negative emotions, and more. |
| 0:27.6 | If you're thinking of starting therapy, give better help a try. |
| 0:31.6 | It's entirely online and designed to be convenient, flexible, and suited to your schedule. |
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| 1:01.3 | Thank you. dot com slash heart wisdom so there's something in spiritual life |
| 1:04.0 | that's not about gaining or changing ourselves |
| 1:07.0 | it's called fruition practice |
| 1:09.7 | or resultant practice. |
| 1:11.6 | It's owning with gratitude the fact that we are here and that we're beautiful and that others are and that we get to live this human incarnation. |
| 1:24.6 | And your job then is to be fully present for your life. With its 10,000 joys and |
| 1:33.3 | 10,000 sorrows, it's not to get something where you have enough. I mean, if anything, it's time |
| 1:38.4 | to give some of that stuff away. You know that's true. But it's to understand that actually what you most deeply long for is who you are, |
| 1:48.9 | is coming back to your own heart, to your own beauty, your own well-being that you were born with, |
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