Ep. 229 – Expectations

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now Network

Kornfield, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Jackkornfield, Buddhism, Spirituality, Jack Kornfield

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Talking Kabir, breakups, LSD, and Ram Dass, Jack shares how we can unfurl from the suffering our expectations in order to live the mystery.

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"Awareness has this quality of allowing change or openness to take place, because you're not trying to make it a certain way... you're observing it." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

- Kabir and waking up in this very life

- Grief, breakups, disappointment, and letting go

- How expectation creates suffering

- Meditation and "manufacturing the light"

- Expectations, battling reality, and opening to the mystery

- How the mind measures, but the heart loves

- What Ram Dass told Jack about dealing with the death of his father

- Moving past the content of mind, and truly experiencing life

- The essence of Buddha's practice of mindfulness

- Labeling/noting feelings as a way to release them

- Albert Hoffman and LSD

- Relationships and how to make commitment without expectation

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"Now, what's interesting to discover in meditation, is as you pay attention inside, it's the mind which measures, the mind with thought. The heart doesn't measure, the heart doesn't have that capacity, actually." – Jack Kornfield

"This is an amazing thing—bodies, and life, and cars, and planets hanging in space, and big balls of fire that we name stars and no one knows where they come from...beetles, insects, and strange things. What is this? So we sit and make ourselves a little bit quiet in order to turn the heart and the mind together to face directly this reality, this changing reality of birth and death, of change of life." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from 10/10/1988 at Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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0:51.0	That's better help, H-E-L-P.com slash Heart Wisdom. This is an amazing thing, bodies and lights and cars and planets hanging in space and big balls of fire that we name stars and no one knows where they come from.
1:13.5	A million species of beetles on the earth and insects and strange things.
1:19.5	What is it? So we sit and make ourselves a little bit quiet in order to turn the heart and the mind together to face directly this reality, this changing reality of birth and death of change of life.
1:42.2	Hey there, welcome back to Heart Wisdom, Jack Hornfield's podcast on the Be Here Now Network.
1:49.2	I'm Ginesh, welcoming you to episode 229 expectations.
1:55.0	In this episode, Jack dives into an array of topics from the mystic poet Kabir to how to handle breakups,
2:05.0	L.S.D and Albert Hoffman,
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