S1 / E14 Why Mindfulness Matters with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman
The Marianne Williamson Podcast
Marianne Williamson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On this week's podcast, Marianne sits down with mindfulness experts and husband & wife duo, Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. A pioneer in the field, Jack founded two of the most well known meditation centers in the country - Insight Meditation in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock in California. Trudy is an accomplished psychologist, teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and serving as a guiding teacher for the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.
Jack defines mindfulness as "loving awareness." The three dive into how mindfulness and meditation are radically transformative for both individual and society.
After the interview Marianne answers listener questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Then you can go into the world and realize, oh, there's so much grief for the hungry |
| 0:06.9 | children from that pandemic. |
| 0:09.7 | We have grain elevators full of food and wealthier and families that are starving there |
| 0:14.9 | for people who have no opportunity and you realize this is wrong and you can tolerate |
| 0:20.4 | it. |
| 0:21.4 | You can turn and see the suffering of the world and let it into your heart because you |
| 0:24.9 | become steady enough and caring enough to be present for it all. |
| 0:43.2 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:44.2 | Thank you so much for being with me today for this conversation that matters and the only |
| 0:48.8 | thing that ultimately matters is that we learn to love one another. |
| 0:52.2 | I have two great, great people, great guests with us today to talk about just that. |
| 0:58.6 | People who are well-known in the field of compassion, compassionate meditation, Buddhism, |
| 1:04.3 | mindfulness, people have been around that part of the journey of humanity, professionally |
| 1:12.0 | as well as personally for many years and have much to teach millions of people about |
| 1:16.4 | it right now. |
| 1:17.5 | But both of them have very heavy academic backgrounds which makes their journeys particularly |
| 1:23.7 | interesting. |
| 1:24.7 | I want to tell you a little about it. |
| 1:25.9 | The two people that I'm talking about, my guest today are Jack Cornfield and his wife |
| 1:30.5 | Trudy Goodman. |
| 1:32.3 | Jack graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in Asian Studies. |
| 1:36.0 | He went to Thailand. |
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