Ep. 277 – Falling Apart, Coming Together: Impermanence, Romance, and Attachment
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this engaging Q&A session, Jack and Trudy explore romance, impermanence, attachment, diffusing anger, manifesting your dreams using mindfulness, and more!
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In Part 2 of this episode, Jack and Trudy dive into Q&A on:
- Finding appreciation and wisdom in things “falling apart”
- Accepting change, aging, impermanence
- Entering the naked unknown of the wilderness, nature
- The wisdom of swimming with dolphins in the ocean
- Sending metta (loving kindness) to the world and those in positions of power
- How to tend our romantic relationships and partnerships with mindfulness and care
- Diffusing anger and learning how to communicate lovingly
- Connecting from a place of vulnerability and presence
- Moving past warfare, racism, violence, and blame
- Learning how to communicate across differences
- Noting the difference between your intention and it’s impact on others
- Manifesting your dreams using mindfulness
- “Attachment” in Buddhism vs Western Psychology
- Working through trauma in a safe and mindful way
This talk originally aired on the Voices of Esalen Podcast:
The Voices of Esalen Podcast showcases in-depth interviews with the dynamic teachers and thinkers who are part of Esalen Institute. Hosted by Sam Stern, a former Esalen student and current staff member, the podcasts have featured engaging conversations with authors Cheryl Strayed and Michael Pollan, innovators Stan Grof and Dr. Mark Hyman, teachers Byron Katie, Mark Coleman and Jean Houston, Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy, and many more. Learn more at Esalen.org/story/podcasts
About Trudy Goodman:
Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats, engages in activism work, and teaches workshops worldwide and online. She is also the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian in the Netflix series, The Midnight Gospel. You can learn more about about Trudy’s flourishing array of wonderful offerings at TrudyGoodman.com
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About Jack Kornfield:
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, studying as a monk under the Buddhist master Ven. Ajahn Chah, as well as the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies.
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| 0:00.0 | People are already turning to AI for therapy-style support, asking chatbots for advice and input on a wide range of personal issues. |
| 0:09.0 | If we can ask questions and receive decent answers from AI, what does this mean for the role of the world's ancient wisdom traditions and the teachers who transmit them human to human? |
| 0:19.0 | Join Buddhist teacher David Nicturn and Duncan Trussell, comedian and creator of the Netflix animated series The Midnight Gospel, for a free online event on Tuesday, February 11th at 6 p.m. Eastern Time. |
| 0:31.8 | Together they'll explore the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern technology, how artificial intelligence might influence spiritual practice, |
| 0:39.0 | and the evolving role of mindfulness teachers in the digital age. |
| 0:42.9 | They'll also discuss Dharma Moon's renowned mindfulness meditation teacher training program. |
| 0:47.7 | Visit Dharmamoon.com slash wisdom. |
| 0:50.6 | That's Dharmamoon.com slash wisdom. |
| 0:52.8 | For more info and reserve your spot for the free online event |
| 0:56.2 | with David Nick Turn and Duncan Dressel. |
| 1:04.4 | If you're obsessed in your work with getting head and getting money |
| 1:07.9 | and you're missing your life, it's not healthy. |
| 1:12.4 | On the other hand, if you have some creative idea, |
| 1:15.2 | I want to make this and build this and so forth, |
| 1:17.9 | and this is how I want to dedicate myself, |
| 1:20.1 | and you tend that the way you would tend to garden, |
| 1:23.2 | instead of trying to pull it up or judge yourself |
| 1:25.5 | because I'm not there fast enough, |
| 1:26.8 | or all the other things that make you suffer. |
| 1:29.3 | If you actually become mindful, then it's possible to choose a direction, to envision, to imagine in a healthy way. |
| 1:43.6 | If you actually become mindful, then it's possible to choose a direction, to envision, to imagine your life in a healthy way. |
| 1:55.2 | Says Jack Cornfield in episode 277 of the Heart Wisdom podcast, |
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