Unveiling how to grow your heart as big as the sky, Jack shares the spiritual antidote for aversion, negativity, and fear.
“Let your heart be as big as your whole experience, like the sky.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- Overcoming aversion by “bringing it into your heart” rather than your rational mind
- Touching into emotions, fears, and judgements with compassion instead of aversion
- Using techniques like “noting/naming” for moving past intense feelings
- Loving your negatives states as you would love your own child
- Seeing clearly the karma, value, and consequence of your personal patterns
- Who would you be if you dropped your opinions, views, identity?
- Growing your heart to the size of the sky
- Practicing the ‘art of letting go’
- Learning to live in the reality ‘the Now’
- Why Buddha had a better time than most
- Painting as a doorway to spiritual experience
- Transmuting difficulties by dropping our resistance to them
- How to hold healthy views without being attached to them
“In this space of Now, it’s not necessary to have fear. In this place of Now, we can rest.” – Jack Kornfield
“If we want to create peace, or if we want to live free from greed, hatred and delusion, the place to start is in ourselves.” – Jack Kornfield
