In this vintage Dharma Talk, Jack illuminates Buddhism’s Three Characteristics of Life: stress, non-self, and impermanence.
“Somehow we believe our concepts, that we’ll be here forever, that our life is really going to go on and on. Or we believe our advertising, the idea from the culture that if you get ‘this’ you’ll be able to hold onto it and it will make you happy. It’s just not true. Happiness is a matter of the heart; not something we can grasp or hold.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- Knowledge, love, patience, and a spirit of constancy
- Being here now and living in mindfulness in the present moment
- Buddhism’s Three Characteristics of Life
- Anicca: impermanence
- Anatta: non-self
- Dukkha: stress/suffering
- True happiness as a matter of the heart
- How you can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf
- The original truth of self and freedom
