Ep. 285 – Bowing to What Is: Awakening Right Where You Are
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Jack invites us to stop fighting what is and begin bowing to it—awakening the timeless wisdom and compassionate heart of a Buddha, right here and now, in the midst of our joys, sorrows, and the suffering of the world.
This Dharma Talk recorded on 1/3/93 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
This week on Heart Wisdom, Jack gives perspectives on:
- Evaluating our spiritual practice
- Joanna Macy and healing the environment
- The rollercoaster ride of meditation
- Awakening right here and right now
- The transformative power of bowing to it all
- The Buddhas of all the universes
- Suffering and the truth of Nirvana, timeless delight
- Facing the reality of the human realm—joy and sorrow, birth and death
- Looking at the difficulties facing the planet today—war, famine, racism, greed, environmental concerns
- Stop fighting what is true; the end of denial
- Bowing to suffering, attachment, and change
- Insight—seeing things just as they are
"We awaken the wisdom and the great, compassionate heart of a Buddha right where we are. Where else could it be?" – Jack Kornfield
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| 0:00.0 | To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things, Dogan Zenji. |
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| 1:19.8 | As Sonsonim again, the Zen master said, |
| 1:23.4 | Once a great man sat under this Bodie tree, |
| 1:26.8 | saw the morning star and was enlightened. |
| 1:29.3 | He absolutely believed his eyes, his ears, his nose, his tongue, his body. |
| 1:35.3 | The earth is brown, the sky is blue. |
| 1:38.3 | And where we're going is where we are. |
| 1:43.3 | Where we're going is to awaken the wisdom and the great compassionate heart of a Buddha, |
| 1:50.0 | just where we are. Where else could it be? |
| 1:58.0 | The more we fight with what's true, the more we suffer. |
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