Heart Wisdom – Ep. 333 – You Can Trust Love Itself: Ram Dass and Loving Awareness

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Exploring love as a spiritual practice, Jack Kornfield shares how Ram Dass grew into a living field of love and how we can cultivate that same loving awareness within ourselves.

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“The good news is you don’t run out of love. When you offer and share it, it actually grows. How cool is that?” —Jack Kornfield

This time on Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield explores:

  • Ram Dass becoming the loving presence people always imagined him to be
  • Krishna Das, Maharaj-ji, and the power of seeing others with the eyes of love
  • Why love is not merely something that happens to us
  • Cultivating lovingkindness through intentional spiritual practice
  • Sharon Salzberg’s discovery that metta practice was transforming her heart
  • Practicing lovingkindness for strangers in everyday life
  • Seeing the original innocence and Buddha nature within others
  • The Dalai Lama’s teaching on befriending the enemy
  • How love transforms into compassion, joy, and equanimity
  • Impermanence and the preciousness of what we love
  • Moving beyond judgment into loving awareness
  • Embracing the body, heart, and mind with kindness
  • Listening for what is asking for love
This episode was originally recorded as part of Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman’s course, How to Thrive in Love: Buddhist Secrets to Transform Your Relationships.
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