Ep. 311 – All In This Together Series #2: Stories of Meaning, Presence, and Living with Integrity
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Celebrating the release of his new book of his favorite stories, All In This Together, Jack shares wise tales on living with integrity, presence, stillness, and generosity.
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Jack’s new book is out now!: All in This Together: Stories and Teachings for Loving Each Other and Our World
“Whether you make art, write, tend a garden, or parent children—if you can share your dignity, generosity, understanding, integrity, vision, and make that come alive within you and others, your life becomes a blessed source of happiness.” –Jack Kornfield.
In this episode Jack mindfully explores:
- Meaning and connection
- Thich Nhat Hanh’s favorite Tolstoy story
- Answering the Empress’s three life-changing questions: What is the best time to do things? Who are the best people to work with? What is the most important thing to be doing at all times?
- Living in the present moment and serving those around you
- Cultivating happiness through giving our life meaning
- Being a Bodhisattva and holding all life in compassion
- The story of Abbott Anastasius
- Integrity and generosity
- What we teach others through our stillness
- Being a clear mirror for others
- Quieting the mind, tending the heart, and remembering what matters
- Opening to the vastness of life beyond the small self
- Your birthright as loving awareness itself
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us that they may see their own images and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps fiercer life because of our quiet.” –William Butler Yeats
This Dharma Talk originally took place in April 2019 for Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation. Stay up to date with Jack’s upcoming livestreams and events here.
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.
Jack is currently offering a wonderful array of transformational online courses diving into crucial topics like Mindfulness Meditation Fundamentals, Walking the Eightfold Path, Opening the Heart of Forgiveness, Living Beautifully, Transforming Your Life Through Powerful Stories, and so much more. Sign up for an All Access Pass to explore Jack’s entire course library. If you would like a year's worth of online meetups with Jack and fellow community, join The Year of Awakening: A Monthly Journey with Jack Kornfield.
“Happiness comes when we have meaning in our life.” –Jack Kornfield
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| 0:00.0 | Compounding global conflicts, an intensifying climate crisis, and a rise in authoritarianism, |
| 0:07.7 | has many of us feeling a mix of fear, anxiety, and a real need for support. |
| 0:13.6 | On Wednesday, December 10th, join 10% Happier podcast host Dan Harris and Buddhist teacher Ethan |
| 0:20.2 | Ethan Nicktern for a free online conversation |
| 0:23.1 | about how Buddhist teachings can help us stay grounded, available, and engaged, even when the |
| 0:29.3 | world feels like it's on fire. They'll also discuss the upcoming Dharma Moon year-long Buddhist |
| 0:35.7 | studies program and how studying Buddhism can help us show up more fully for ourselves and others during difficult times. |
| 0:44.4 | Visit www.darmamoon.com backslash stability for more info and to reserve your spot for the free online event on December 10th. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello and welcome back to Jack Cornfield's Heart Wisdom Podcast on the Be Here Now Network. |
| 1:10.0 | My name is Ganesh Das, and I am reverently echoing Jack Cornfield's sentiment that happiness |
| 1:17.6 | comes when we have meaning in our lives. |
| 1:20.6 | And one beautiful way to infuse meaning into our lives is through stories. |
| 1:26.6 | And that is why, here on Heart Wisdom, we are going to be spending the next meaning into our lives is through stories. |
| 1:27.7 | And that is why here on Heart Wisdom, we are going to be spending the next few months, |
| 1:33.3 | celebrating the release of Jack Cornfield's new book, All in This Together, Stories |
| 1:40.2 | and Teachings for Loving Each Other and Our World. This is the second episode in the series. |
| 1:48.0 | Episode 311, Stories of Meaning, Presence, and Living with Integrity. |
| 1:54.0 | This is Part 2, shot in beautiful video at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, |
| 2:00.0 | from a Dharmaarmatalk |
| 2:01.1 | Jack gave on the spirituality of stories back in 2019 with its entertaining content |
| 2:08.6 | inviting us into the stillness and generosity of these winter months. In this |
| 2:14.7 | series ahead we'll have Jack speaking with Anne Lamott, a brilliant author and deep friend of Jack's and Ram Dass's, |
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