Ep. 274 – Listening with Your Whole Being: Honoring Life Through Presence and Simplicity

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Rekindling the ancient art of listening, Jack shares how we can transform our lives through nourishing inner stillness and simplifying the mind.

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“The Divine waits for us to taste the food and not just read the menu.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

Reclaiming the ancient Art of Listening
Meditating like the Buddha in nature
How your breath reflects your life
Meditation, attention, and overcoming restlessness
The ways we keep ourselves busy
How to trust your human instincts
Reclaiming an intimacy with your senses
Noticing when we’re listening and when we’re not
Honoring others through your attention
Cultivating the humility of ‘Don’t Know Mind’
The mystery of life, death, love, consciousness
Nourishing inner stillness and simplifying your mind
Letting go into the unfolding present moment
The rather bizarre situation of having a human body
Our connection to nature, earth, the elements, and all of being
Finding the meditative space of no going forward, backward, or standing still

“To meditate is to remember, reclaim, reawaken the ancient art of listening.” – Jack Kornfield

“When the Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree on his night of enlightenment, it wasn’t to do, get, or make something, but to listen inwardly with all of his senses to the nature of this world that we are born into for a time.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk recorded on 9/21/1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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1:00.1	Thank you. slash art wisdom. What do people want?
1:02.1	They want to be honored by our listening.
1:06.3	In a way, that's what God wants, or the divine, the sacred wants too.
1:12.6	It waits for us to taste the food and not just read the menu,
1:19.6	which is to say that there's something deep in us,
1:24.6	and all it asks for is to be heard to be listened to.
1:35.5	To meditate is to remember, reclaim, reawaken, the ancient art of listening, says Jack Cornfield in episode 274 of heart wisdom,
1:49.4	listening with your whole being, honoring life through presence and simplicity.
1:56.6	This is a talk that shines from Spirit Rock Meditation Center, September 21st, 1992.
2:05.6	And I've been noticing, we've been kind of diving into selections from this time period,
2:14.1	and everything Jack says is so good, but I've noticed that at the, maybe the three-quarter of
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