Jack unfolds the radical wisdom and healing teachings of the great Buddhist sage Atīśa on living this dreamlike life as gesture of love.

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“If life is like a dream, make it a beautiful one.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• Radical wisdom from the 7 Verses of Atīśa – one of the greatest Buddhist sages
• A moving story about the deep transformative power encased within committing an act of truth
• The nature of timeless awareness and the witness
• Exchanging “spiritual trading cards” with Ram Dass
• Humor, listening, stillness, and spiritual perspective
• Not being swayed by outer circumstance
• Learning what really matters in this life
• Living with an honest and compassionate heart
• Emptiness and considering all phenomenon to be dreams
• Not brooding over the faults of others
• Noticing our inner waterfall of thoughts, feelings, sensations
• Becoming medicine for others and the world
• Looking through the eyes of mercy
• Being grateful to everyone and everything
• Always relying on joyful and peaceful mind and heart
• Don’t expect a standing ovation for your spiritual work or service to the world

“Who you are is what matters most—and who you are is awareness having this amazing life journey.” – Jack Kornfield

“Let your life be a gesture of love.” – Jack Kornfield

This episode was originally recorded on 11/20/23 for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. To join Jack's next livestream, head to JackKornfield.com/events

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In this fresh guided meditation, Jack invites you to rest your mind and heart to uncover the authentic happiness encased within true peace.

This Dharma Talk originally took place for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation on 11/23/2024. To join his next livestream, please check out Jack’s events calendar.

“There is no greater happiness than peace.” – Jack Kornfield

• In this episode, Jack leads a guided meditation on:
• Peace as the highest happiness
• Finding ease, stability, stillness, and presence
• Receiving whatever arises with kindness and compassion
• Inviting thoughts and emotions to quiet
• Resting in mindful loving awareness
• Uncovering a peaceful mind and full heart

“Feel how the earth you are sitting on supports you completely in its steadiness.” – Jack Kornfield

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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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