Walking Through Life with Grace: Navigating Today's Chaos with Wisdom & Meditation with Jack Kornfield

Take Back Your Mind

Michael B. Beckwith

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

5 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, India, and Burma. He is one of the key teachers who introduced mindfulness practices to the West and has taught internationally since 1974. Jack holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Center in California. He is a teacher, husband, grandfather, entrepreneur, and activist and has authored 16 books that have sold 2 million copies.

Today Michael and Jack discuss:

–Jack’s social activism and his role in the spiritual movement that grew in the 1970s, and how the spiritual space has evolved over the past 50+ years

–Mindfulness and loving-kindness as a tool for self-care and rejuvenation and Jack’s advice to those who struggle with burnout and compassion fatigue

–Insights for activists on how to “live in the solution” vs. succumbing to the overwhelming challenges of the world

–How Jack founded Spirit Rock Center, his online Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification, and a lot more!

Next, Michael concludes this episode with a guided meditation capturing the energy and insights of his conversation with Jack.

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0:00.0	And most people have a big burden of suffering from their families, from financial worry,
0:06.0	from the craziness of the society around, from the racism, from the, you know, conflict,
0:11.6	all those kind of things.
0:13.9	And yet the Buddhist texts begin with this beautiful phrase,
0:18.0	O nobly born, oh, you who are the sons and daughters of the great
0:22.5	sages and awakened ones of the past, remember your true nature, remember your heritage,
0:29.3	that you carry this wisdom and love, and you can embody it, you can find it, you can remember
0:34.9	it. And this empowerment to remember and live from this place,
0:40.1	which includes yourself, cherishing yourself, really changes our life. Peace and Rich's
0:47.7	blessings. I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back your mind. Peace and blessings everyone and welcome back to Take Back Your Mind.
1:25.6	I am Michael B. Beckwith, the founder and spiritual director of the Agapa International Spiritual Center,
1:31.5	and you're a host right here on Take Back Your Mind.
1:35.4	We're always having some level of conversation about taking back our mind.
1:41.7	We have one, and oftentimes it's been hijacked by worldly fear, doubt,
1:49.0	anxiety, futureizing. We want to take it back. We want to have a level of sovereignty over the mind
1:54.5	through spiritual practices so that it's not governed by nefarious hypnotism, but it's actually governed by love, compassion,
2:04.6	it's actually governed by our intrinsic nature and being.
2:07.6	So today, I have a magnificent spiritual teacher
2:11.6	that is absolutely adept exactly what I'm telling you about.
2:18.7	It's brother Jack Cornfield.
2:20.4	Let me tell you just a little bit about him.
2:21.8	You see him right there on the screen.
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