Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach: Big Insights: The Power of Awareness to Change Your Life

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach are two of the leading authorities on mindfulness and meditation in the West. Jack is the bestselling author and teacher widely credited with combining mindfulness with modern western psychology. Tara has been teaching meditation for more than four decades and is the author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. In this special edition of Insights at the Edge originally recorded in 2015, Tami Simon sits down with both Jack and Tara to discuss the big insights that form the foundation of mindfulness practice. They speak on the concept of awareness itself and how to distinguish "awareness" from "thinking." Tara and Jack share some of the everyday benefits of a meditation practice, including personal clarity and more conscious relationships. Finally, Jack, Tara, and Tami have a frank conversation on how awareness training could affect the state of the world. (60 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com, you can find hundreds of downloadable audio learning programs,
0:09.0	plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events. At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.1	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey, offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge, A special episode that was originally recorded in 2015 as part of the
0:47.8	launch of the new Awareness Training Institute with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brock.
0:54.6	Jack Cornfield is a best-selling author who holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is widely
1:01.4	recognized as one of the first Westerners to integrate the findings of Western psychology
1:08.0	with the practice of mindfulness.
1:10.0	Tara Brock has been teaching Insight Meditation for nearly four decades.
1:16.0	She also holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is the author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge.
1:24.0	Jack and Tara have teamed together to create what sounds true,
1:28.0	The Awareness Training Institute,
1:31.0	an online institute dedicated to training people worldwide in the practices of
1:36.1	mindfulness and compassion. Together they've created mindfulness daily a 40-day
1:42.3	training program that helps listeners establish a lasting
1:46.1	meditation practice in less than 15 minutes a day.
1:50.3	They've also created a version of this 40-day training for the workplace called Mindfulness Daily at Work.
1:57.0	In addition, the Awareness Training Institute has created an online course called the Power of Awareness, which features more than 15
2:07.0	hours of video teachings and includes a unique online mentoring program in which participants work online in small groups with a
2:16.5	certified Awareness Training Institute instructor.
2:20.3	If you're interested in learning more about mindfulness daily,
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