Helping us reflect on our daily habits and feelings, Jack shares how Right Attitude, Wise Aspiration, and Mindful Thought allow us to uncover the sweet joy of living in The Way.
“With Wise Attitude we begin to discover the power of kindness, the joy in not grasping, the delight in generosity, the ease in letting go, and the immediacy of freedom and liberation that is here in every moment.” – Jack Kornfield
Exploring the second step of the Eightfold Path, Jack mindfully shares on:
- Right Attitude, Wise Thought, the second step on the Eightfold Path
- Seeing directly the true power of mind and heart
- Overcoming habitual patterns of thought, action, and attitude
- The Buddha on nobility, integrity, and the heart
- Overcoming greed, hatred, and delusion
- Knowing the sweet joy of living in The Way
- Wise Aspiration and the path of the Bodhisattva
- Reflecting on our attitude around death
- Rumi, Stephen Levine, Martin Luther King Jr, Suzuki Roshi, and Alan Watts
- Taking what life gives us as “grist for the mill” of awakening
- Examining spiritual teachings in our own life (what works, what doesn’t?)
- Trading ‘protection and defensiveness’ for ‘openness and curiosity’
- Accepting each moment as an unrepeatable miracle
- Beginner’s Mind and Don’t Know Mind
- Openness, respect, and compassion
“It is knowing what is true that brings ourselves freedom. We don’t get free by making ourselves free.” – Jack Kornfield
“It is only through mercy, through the kindness of compassion, that reconciliation happens, that what’s locked in suffering begins to grow and breathe new life.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk was originally recorded in 1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
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