Jack Kornfield and Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi explore how facing suffering with love can awaken the courage to heal our world.
“Love is this unbelievable, inexplicable force. When there’s love it’s almost that anything is possible. It’s love that binds all things.” –Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi
In this episode, Jack and Rajiv mindfully explore:
- Living Fully in a Time of Change: Joanna Macy’s funeral as a teaching on joy, love, and the beauty of a life well-lived.
- Facing Suffering with Courage: The two kinds of suffering—what we run from and what we open to with compassion.
- Meditation as Refuge: Expanding the heart’s window of tolerance to hold fear, grief, and love all at once.
- The Sweet Way of the Dharma: Remembering peace, joy, and humor even in the midst of difficulty.
- Smiling as Practice: Softening the heart through simple, embodied gestures of kindness.
- The Great Regeneration: Redefining the pandemic as a moment to reimagine our world with wisdom and care.
- The Interbeing of All Things: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Heart Sutra and the recognition that we already hold the solutions we seek.
- Love in Action: Ram Dass’s reminder to feed people, love people, and organize from the heart.
- Sacred Reciprocity: Healing inequality and climate change through generosity, reverence, and balance.
- The Middle Way in a Polarized World: Meeting conflict with understanding, presence, and possibility.
- Inner Climate Change: Transforming the heart to transform the earth—awakening compassion as the root of renewal.
“The world is as it is—it has suffering and beauty in unbelievable measure. So the real question is: how are you going to tend your heart?” –Jack Kornfield
About Prof. Rajiv S. Joshi:
Professor Joshi is the Founder of Bridging Ventures and former Associate Dean for Climate Action at Columbia University. He helped launch Columbia’s Climate School with President Obama, and has led groundbreaking work in global collaboration, climate technology, and regenerative entrepreneurship.
