Jack Kornfield explores the nature of mind, offering playful practices and profound perspectives to uncover our true home of freedom, compassion, and ease.
“If we don’t know the nature of mind and the ways of mind, our life is like a boat without a rudder, and we get pulled here there by all the thoughts, images, stories, feelings, and unfinished business that arise during the day” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- The purpose of meditation and Buddhism
- Learning the true nature of mind
- An assortment of micro guided meditation practices
- Experiencing Buddha’s ‘sure heart’s release”
- Uncovering natural happiness and freedom of heart
- How we create our world with our mind
- Discovering what creates suffering and what creates happiness
- The mirror-like quality of meditation
- Stanislav Grof and LSD
- The playfulness and creative capacity of mind
- The Buddhist creation myth
- Counting/noting our thoughts
- Becoming aware of awareness
- Ajahn Chah’s meditation instructions
- Finding the place of natural mind and rest
- Cultivating inner listening
- The gradual and sudden dimensions of illumination
- Untangling the unfinished business of our lives
- Touching the world in kindness and compassion
- Meeting ourselves and this world in kindness and humbleness
- Bearing witness to the sorrows of the world while resting in the heart of the Buddha
- Opening to the great mystery
- Becoming The One Who Knows
- The Timeless Buddha as the ground of all being, our true home
“Buddha didn’t give an answer to the great mystery, he taught us how to rest in our heart in the midst of that mystery, to find our true home, that awakened state.” – Jack Kornfield
