Ep. 236 – Sacred Reflections with Brother David Steindl-Rast and Frank Ostaseski
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jack and the ‘Grandfather of Gratitude,’ Brother David Steindl-Rast, delve into sacred reflections on death, where Buddha meets Jesus, the power of compassion, the positive side of grief, and beyond.
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“The process of grieving that breaks this little heart, which closes itself in itself, opens us to the heart that we all share, the one heart that we all have in common.” – Brother David Steindl-Rast
In this sacred dialogue, Jack, Brother David, and Frank Ostaseski reflect on:
- How Christianity and Buddhism fit together spiritually
- The compassionate smile of Buddha meeting the sacred heart of Jesus Christ
- The positive side of grief: opening to the collective heart
- Death and grace in both traditions
- Deconditioning from a difficult mother
- Harnessing the power of your common sense
- A funny story about the Pope, and how to awaken to who we already are
- Jack’s journey to the Temple of the Coconut Monk
- How to handle pain like a Burmese Master
- How to forgive yourself and overcome remorse
- Diffusing suicidal tendencies by cultivating self-compassion
- Guided meditations and sacred chants from Jack and Brother David
“In a meditative way, one of the big pieces of being able to love, or touch, or open, or live, is really the work of forgiveness, grace, and receiving yourself in all of your complexity and loving.” – Jack Kornfield
“Compassion, loving kindness, and understanding are our true nature, our true state.” – Jack Kornfield
This conversation recorded on 6/30/1988 was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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| 0:45.7 | with David Nick Turn and Duncan Trussle. compassion, loving kindness, and understanding are in fact our true nature, they are our true state, and that may be close to what the Christian tradition means a receiving |
| 1:07.6 | grace in that as we let go of a limited identity, |
| 1:13.2 | I want this and I'm supposed to be that |
| 1:15.3 | and the world should be this for me, |
| 1:17.5 | and that desire body and that attachment |
| 1:22.3 | field kind of settles, then naturally we feel a connectedness and we |
| 1:30.4 | feel in that the suffering of tears and the ocean of joy and that is we swim in it we are that |
| 1:39.8 | and you could call that grace if you will in the sense that it's not something that we make as some individual, |
| 1:46.0 | but that we are allowed to experience when we're silent, when we stop interfering. |
| 1:52.8 | Hey there and welcome to episode 236 of Jack Hornefield's Heart Wisdom podcast on the Be Here Now Network, Sacred |
| 2:07.9 | Reflections with Brother David StindleRast and Frank Osteski. |
| 2:15.0 | I am honored to unearth this conversation from June 30th, 1988, in which Brother David Stendel Rost, a author scholar and Benedictine |
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