• Ep. 255 – Listening to the Song of the Present Moment

  • Sep 10 2024
  • Length: 58 mins
  • Podcast

Ep. 255 – Listening to the Song of the Present Moment

  • Summary

  • Listening to the song of the present moment, Jack uncovers how to dance with life’s dynamic rhythms along the harmonizing path to inner-freedom.

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    “The rhythm of your breath is no different than the rhythm of the stars.” – Jack Kornfield

    In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

    • The art of listening to the song of life, birth and death
    • Why it can be so tough to actually “Be Here Now” like Ram Dass
    • How love connects to the present moment
    • Alan Watts, music, dance, and harmonizing to the universe
    • Feeling the rhythms of your breath and body
    • Learning to dance to life’s dynamic music
    • Staying open and avoiding spiritual bypass
    • Looking at our body and life clearly and directly
    • The power of attention, noting, and spaciousness for diffusing our judgements and emotions
    • Buddha’s discovery of the Middle Way, and why he stopped fighting himself
    • Dealing with the unfinished business of grief, loss, loneliness, wounds
    • How to handle worries or fantasies that keep looping over and over
    • Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the tenderness and fearlessness of an Awakened Heart
    • Why Buddha focused on humans as ‘five processes,’ rather than personalities
    • Letting go of our rigid sense of self and diving into the fluidity of life
    • Non-grasping and how even enlightenment is a problem
    • Discovering the true path to liberation
    • Death, dying, and a reading from the Tibetan Book of the Dead


    “To listen is to be awake in the present without moving away from or running away from what’s actually here.” – Jack Kornfield

    “The only place to actually love another person, or a tree, or a living creature, or the earth itself, is when we’re here in the present.” – Jack Kornfield

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    This Dharma talk originally recorded in 1991 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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