Ep. 45 - Stories of an Awakened Heart

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Jack offers tales of tenderness that remind us of the qualities of faith and compassion which move us in the direction of freedom. What resources can we bring to a world of conflict that might allow us to live in the reality of the present with an openness and trust that what needs to be healed will be done through love? In coming to rest in the space of calm and kind attention that grows in meditation, we learn to listen with the heart and move with the inspired energy that follows. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	In a world that often feels like it's teetering on the edge, it's not surprising that so many of us grapple with feelings of instability and overwhelm.
0:10.0	On Tuesday, December 19th, join acclaimed Buddhist meditation teachers Sharon Salzburg and Ethan Nicktern for a free online conversation on staying grounded, available, and engaged even when the world is on fire.
0:24.0	Ethan and Sharon will also discuss the upcoming darmamoon year-long Buddhist studies program
0:29.0	and offer their insights on how studying Buddhism can help us show up more fully for ourselves and others during these challenging times.
0:37.0	Visit darmamamoon.com slash event for more info and reserve your free spot. Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour. We are delighted to share with you Jack's innate common
1:06.8	sense wisdom and his clear open heart. If you are interested in supporting Jack's podcast, go to be here now network
1:17.0	dot com slash Jack.
1:20.0	In the spirit of listening is a kind of openness which isn't so much seeking information or answers because
1:38.0	there really aren't answers out here particularly. If anything out here
1:42.4	there's just more questions.
1:44.0	I have about 500 of them right here at my feet.
1:48.0	But sometimes the questions outside or the words that you hear remind you of something that is truly an answer that you know in yourself and in your own heart.
2:02.0	And I'd like to begin by reading you a story in a moment and the story I want to
2:11.0	read is the reminder of a kind of quality of presence that's offered when we begin
2:21.0	to attend to our life with respect, with mindfulness, with that compassionate
2:31.0	attention that grows through meditation.
2:34.0	Meditation isn't an end of itself
2:37.0	in terms of what one might do in sitting or walking meditation.
2:41.0	It's really more an opportunity to learn a deep way of being that inhabits our body and heart and mind and somehow connects us with that which is timeless beyond the small sense of
2:56.9	ourselves to something greater and particularly in a world that we live in that has as much still as much
3:07.9	conflict and war and betrayal and greed and racism and suffering of different kinds and the normal progression of
3:22.0	illness and death.
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