How do we hold life’s unbearable beauty and ocean of tears? Exploring the education of the heart, Jack Kornfield shares Buddhist wisdom for meeting troubled times with steadiness, compassion, and courage.
“The outer technology of the world has to be matched by an inner technology of the heart.” —Jack Kornfield
This time on Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield explores:
- Holding the beauty and suffering of the world together
- Why technological progress needs an accompanying education of the heart
- Joanna Macy’s Great Turning and the shift toward interconnection
- Ajahn Chah’s unexpected guidance on understanding anger
- Becoming a calm and centered presence during a crisis
- Supporting Bill Ford through the 2008 financial meltdown
- The Four Noble Truths and the possibility of inner freedom
- Beginning loving-kindness where the heart opens naturally
- Moving beyond self-judgment into mindful loving awareness
- Finding sacred connection in ordinary encounters
- Love, compassion, shared joy, and spacious awareness
- Remaining present through illness, grief, and loss
- The Dalai Lama’s determination to preserve his happiness
- Mindfulness when the past is painful and the future uncertain
- The Bodhisattva path and writing a personal vow of care
