Jack and the ‘Grandfather of Gratitude,’ Brother David Steindl-Rast, delve into sacred reflections on death, where Buddha meets Jesus, the power of compassion, the positive side of grief, and beyond.

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“The process of grieving that breaks this little heart, which closes itself in itself, opens us to the heart that we all share, the one heart that we all have in common.” – Brother David Steindl-Rast

In this sacred dialogue, Jack, Brother David, and Frank Ostaseski reflect on:

• How Christianity and Buddhism fit together spiritually
• The compassionate smile of Buddha meeting the sacred heart of Jesus Christ
• The positive side of grief: opening to the collective heart
• Death and grace in both traditions
• Deconditioning from a difficult mother
• Harnessing the power of your common sense
• A funny story about the Pope, and how to awaken to who we already are
• Jack’s journey to the Temple of the Coconut Monk
• How to handle pain like a Burmese Master
• How to forgive yourself and overcome remorse
• Diffusing suicidal tendencies by cultivating self-compassion
• Guided meditations and sacred chants from Jack and Brother David

“In a meditative way, one of the big pieces of being able to love, or touch, or open, or live, is really the work of forgiveness, grace, and receiving yourself in all of your complexity and loving.” – Jack Kornfield

“Compassion, loving kindness, and understanding are our true nature, our true state.” – Jack Kornfield

This conversation recorded on 6/30/1988 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Fantastic Fungi's visionary director, Louie Schwartzberg, joins Jack to explore the profound connection between psychedelics and mindfulness.

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“You can’t separate psychedelics from life.” – Jack Kornfield

In this fresh conversation, Jack and Louie spelunk the depths of:

• The connection between psychedelics and spirituality
• Psychedelics as a gateway to wonder, curiosity, and the sacred
• How tripping on psychedelics informed Louie’s filmmaking
• Albert Einstein and psychedelics as the intersection between art and science
• The universe and life as a constant transformation of light energy
• Buddha’s “Flower Sermon” and Zen Master Suzuki Roshi’s “Beginner’s Mind”
• Jack “exchanging maps” with famous LSD researcher, Stanislav Grof
• Studies showing the combination of psilocybin mushrooms and Louie’s time-lapse nature imagery as a powerful therapeutic tool for helping addiction and PTSD
• The importance of “set and setting,” community, and integration
• How psychedelics actually fit into the Buddhist precepts
• Honoring biology and the feminine aspects of nature
• The gifts of sacred attention and loving awareness
• Finding beauty wherever you are, and how Louie’s films heal by sharing patterns of nature for the soul to connect with

This conversation was originally recorded on 3/29/24 by Banyan Together – an online mindfulness community started by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. To join the community and learn more, visit BanyanTogether.com

“A lot of the work I do is to make the invisible visible. And that’s the perfect description of what a psychedelic journey is like, making the invisible visible.” – Louie Schwartzberg

“We live in a culture that’s almost defined by the absence of the sacred. And so we feel this yearning, this intuitive wish to connect—whether it’s going high in the mountains, or making love, or taking psychedelics, or meditating.” – Jack Kornfield

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Inviting in calm, strength, and steadiness, Jack leads a guided meditation into the heart of mindful loving awareness.

This guided meditation was originally recorded on 2/19/2024 for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. Register to join Jack's next livestream at JackKornfield.com/events

"Feel the weight of your body, gravity, and how the earth completely supports you when you let go into your seat. You're met by the strength and steadiness of the earth itself. You can rest on her. – Jack Kornfield

In this fresh episode, Jack leads a guided meditation for:

• Inviting in a sense of ease and calm
• Relaxing into mindful loving awareness
• Finding a steady, grounded, rooted posture
• Keeping a natural, soft, and flowing breath
• Quieting the mind and watching experience unfold
• Noticing the arising and passing away of all phenomena
• Allowing yourself into rest, trust, and relaxation

Learn to live beautifully with Jack Kornfield and Dr. Dan Siegel in their new online journey, Living Beautifully: Transformative Science and Mindfulness Practices to Cultivate a Wise Heart

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Exploring the great mystery of life and existence, Jack shares enlightening insights on the playful nature of wisdom.

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"The beautiful thing is, wisdom is gracious." – Jack Kornfield

Fresh from an adventure in Costa Rica, Jack offers wisdom on:

• Spelunking the great mystery of life
• Wisdom as inherently gracious and playful
• Balancing compassion with emptiness
• How to speak with suffering people
• Joanna Macy and the "Great Turning" of human civilization
• Ram Dass, Ajahn Chah, and Stephen Levine
• "Central Casting" and the human experience
• How Jack and his colleagues handle their own aging

"It's all empty and it all matters." – Jack Kornfield

"Meditation is not about gaining or attaining something, it's about seeing the world with the heart of wisdom." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk was originally recorded on 2/19/2024 for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. Register to join Jack's next livestream at JackKornfield.com/events

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Offering compassion for our human flaws, Jack relays how to stop being so loyal to our suffering, and helps uncover the heart of the Buddha living within each of us.

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In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• Living the Divine Abodes to uncover the heart of the Buddha within yourself
• How to live in loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity/peace
• Ram Dass, the Chicken and Rice Man, and selfless service
• How the circle of compassion is not complete until it includes self-compassion
• Viktor Frankl and the boundless freedom of the human spirit
• David Roche and The Church of 80% Sincerity
• Moving beyond looks and into the reality of unconditional love
• Turning off the news and doing something enjoyable
• How to stop being so loyal to your suffering

This Dharma Talk from 12/10/2007 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

“You can search the tenfold universe as the Buddha and not find a single person more worthy of love and care than the one seated right here in your own body.” – Jack Kornfield

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Shining light on the Divine Abodes, Jack shares how we can navigate the world from the goodness of our hearts.

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"Luminous, says the Buddha, is this heart and mind." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• The Divine Abodes (Brahmaviharas) as qualities of the Awakened Heart
• Navigating the world from the goodness of our hearts
• Loving kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity/peace
• What is possible for us as human beings
• Discovering who we really are and what really matters
• Stories of Jack's Buddhist teacher, Maha Ghosananda
• The spirituality of neuroscience's "Mirror Neurons."
• Sharon Salzberg, Metta practice, and the power of attention
• Ram dass, and the heart as the doorway to love

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"What we give our attention, that place will flower and blossom. So if we give our attention to love, it grows." – Jack Kornfield

"Loving Kindness is like the rain that falls on all things, the just and the unjust, equally without discrimination. That love, when it grows within our heart, has a quality of nurturance, moisture, opening ,sweetness and constancy to it. It's an expression of the heart that's unencumbered by fear." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from 12/10/2007 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Jack shares miracle stories and personal lessons from Dipa Ma – the luminous, compassionate and unshakeable spiritual master.

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"You had a sense from this very sweet, mild-mannered old lady of a kind of unshakable inner strength, an incredible sense of stillness and strength in her being." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack lovingly reflects on:

• His times with the great yogi and spiritual master, Dipa Ma Barua
• Miracle stories and spiritual lessons of Dipa Ma
• How the suffering in Dipa Ma's life drew her to Buddhism and meditation
• Dipa Ma's siddhis (spiritual/psychic powers) and compassionate shining heart
• A life-changing story of Jack being blessed by Dipa Ma
• Her grandmotherly loving kindness
• Dipa Ma's favorite spiritual questions

"Dipa Ma's teaching was to always keep people in your heart, to give of your love to the people, and the earth and the world around." – Jack Kornfield

"Of all of the possibilities that one can do with the heart and mind, Dipa Ma was a great master of them." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from 11/01/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Talking Kabir, breakups, LSD, and Ram Dass, Jack shares how we can unfurl from the suffering of our expectations in order to live the mystery.

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"Awareness has this quality of allowing change or openness to take place, because you're not trying to make it a certain way... you're observing it." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

- Kabir and waking up in this very life

- Grief, breakups, disappointment, and letting go

- How expectation creates suffering

- Meditation and "manufacturing the light"

- Expectations, battling reality, and opening to the mystery

- How the mind measures, but the heart loves

- What Ram Dass told Jack about dealing with the death of his father

- Moving past the content of mind, and truly experiencing life

- The essence of Buddha's practice of mindfulness

- Labeling/noting feelings as a way to release them

- Albert Hoffman and LSD

- Relationships and how to make commitment without expectation

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"Now, what's interesting to discover in meditation, is as you pay attention inside, it's the mind which measures, the mind with thought. The heart doesn't measure, the heart doesn't have that capacity, actually." – Jack Kornfield

"This is an amazing thing—bodies, and life, and cars, and planets hanging in space, and big balls of fire that we name stars and no one knows where they come from...beetles, insects, and strange things. What is this? So we sit and make ourselves a little bit quiet in order to turn the heart and the mind together to face directly this reality, this changing reality of birth and death, of change of life." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from 10/10/1988 at Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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