Listening to the song of the present moment, Jack uncovers how to dance with life’s dynamic rhythms along the harmonizing path to inner-freedom.

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“The rhythm of your breath is no different than the rhythm of the stars.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• The art of listening to the song of life, birth and death
• Why it can be so tough to actually “Be Here Now” like Ram Dass
• How love connects to the present moment
• Alan Watts, music, dance, and harmonizing to the universe
• Feeling the rhythms of your breath and body
• Learning to dance to life’s dynamic music
• Staying open and avoiding spiritual bypass
• Looking at our body and life clearly and directly
• The power of attention, noting, and spaciousness for diffusing our judgements and emotions
• Buddha’s discovery of the Middle Way, and why he stopped fighting himself
• Dealing with the unfinished business of grief, loss, loneliness, wounds
• How to handle worries or fantasies that keep looping over and over
• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the tenderness and fearlessness of an Awakened Heart
• Why Buddha focused on humans as ‘five processes,’ rather than personalities
• Letting go of our rigid sense of self and diving into the fluidity of life
• Non-grasping and how even enlightenment is a problem
• Discovering the true path to liberation
• Death, dying, and a reading from the Tibetan Book of the Dead

“To listen is to be awake in the present without moving away from or running away from what’s actually here.” – Jack Kornfield

“The only place to actually love another person, or a tree, or a living creature, or the earth itself, is when we’re here in the present.” – Jack Kornfield

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This Dharma talk originally recorded in 1991 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Revealing how to calm the mind through meditation, Jack shares wisdom on self-acceptance, trust, and healing the unfinished business of the heart.

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“Don’t live in the mind, rest in the heart and let the mind come and go as it will. This is discovering your Buddha Nature.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• Working with the ‘unfinished business of the heart’ – grief, sorrows, longing, wounds, loss
• Honoring life’s ‘ocean of tears’ with love and kind attention
• Cultivating the courage to allow your heart to be broken
• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the tender heart of a warrior
• Self-acceptance, allowing yourself to feel, and reawakening a trust in yourself
• Healing the mind by seeing clearly and not taking it so seriously
• Resting the in heart and letting the mind come and go
• Discovering Your Buddha Nature, your fundamental ground of being
• The technique of seeing the world as enlightened, and the path as yours
• The healing encased within understanding emptiness, selflessness, and letting go
• Meditation as a truly courageous act

“The problem with the mind mostly is that we take it seriously.” – Jack Kornfield

“Healing of the mind is when we can hold in our hearts all that arises, and sense a rest and a goodness, a wholeness in us.” – Jack Kornfield

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Exploring healing through meditation, Jack shares on kundalini, addiction, suffering, and the transformation of having an ‘in body experience.’

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“You have heard of ‘out of the body experiences,’ but what we’re after is something more unusual and important, an ‘in the body experience.'” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:

• Finding strength, wakefulness, and compassion amidst it all
• The Coconut Monk and the Jesus-Buddha connection
• Finding compassion and joy despite suffering and war
• Healing—what it is, how it arises, and how we can connect with it
• Listening and respect as the ground for healing
• Finding and living a path with heart
• Mindfulness, breath, attention, noting, and the Buddha
• Meditation and having an ‘in-body experience’
• Kundalini and opening the energy body
• Learning to handle both pleasure and pain
• Buddha and finding the Middle Way
• The healing of reconnecting with our senses and world around us
• What addictions really mean in an addicted society
• Facing our suffering as the gateway to the precious mystery of life
• Reading children’s direct messages to God

“There’s a healing that comes just in reconnecting with the senses and the world around us.” – Jack Kornfield

“As we begin to practice together, we can sense that meditation and spiritual work is to bring a heartfelt awareness to our life, and out of this there comes an awakening or opening, which we call healing.” – Jack Kornfield

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This episode recorded in late December 1991 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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