Uncovering how to find joy and freedom in any situation, Jack shares the roadmap for discovering peace within yourself.
“Peace is the cessation of your struggle, it’s putting down the burden and letting things be as they actually are.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- Learning to be at peace with yourself and the world
- How to meditate when it feels like you can’t meditate
- The way emptiness connects with compassion
- Reconciling where peace meets struggle
- Peace as an internal state you can bring with you
- Being Here Now, opening to life fully, and becoming intimate with all things
- How we can find joy, liberation, and freedom in any situation
- Dharma stories of the Buddha as well as the Bodhisattva Vimalakīrti
- Coming to terms with the First Noble Truth of suffering, disappointment, and change
- The transformative power of meeting life exactly as it is
- What we can learn from both a “Duck Meditation,” “Goose Poem,” and a Tibetan Prayer
- Love and it’s connection with courage
“We can’t come to rest because we’re at war with what’s actually here.” – Jack Kornfield
“To enter into the unknown is really to enter into the moment.” – Jack Kornfield