Ep. 237 – Discovering Peace Within Yourself
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Uncovering how to find joy and freedom in any situation, Jack shares the roadmap for discovering peace within yourself.
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“Peace is the cessation of your struggle, it’s putting down the burden and letting things be as they actually are.” – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- Learning to be at peace with yourself and the world
- How to meditate when it feels like you can’t meditate
- The way emptiness connects with compassion
- Reconciling where peace meets struggle
- Peace as an internal state you can bring with you
- Being Here Now, opening to life fully, and becoming intimate with all things
- How we can find joy, liberation, and freedom in any situation
- Dharma stories of the Buddha as well as the Bodhisattva Vimalakīrti
- Coming to terms with the First Noble Truth of suffering, disappointment, and change
- The transformative power of meeting life exactly as it is
- What we can learn from both a “Duck Meditation,” “Goose Poem,” and a Tibetan Prayer
- Love and it’s connection with courage
“We can’t come to rest because we’re at war with what’s actually here.” – Jack Kornfield
“To enter into the unknown is really to enter into the moment.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 12/01/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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| 1:04.0 | And peace is the cessation of your struggle. It's putting down the burden. |
| 1:06.0 | It's letting things be as they actually are. |
| 1:20.0 | Hey there and welcome back to the Heart Wisdom Our Our |
| 1:18.0 | and welcome back to the Heart Wisdom Hour, Jack Hornfield's podcast on the Be Here Now Network. I am Ganesh, honored to |
| 1:26.4 | welcome you to episode 237, Discovering Peace Within Your Self. This is an episode all about how to find joy, wakefulness, and freedom in any situation. |
| 1:40.0 | This Darma talk stems back to December 1st, 1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and contains |
| 1:48.6 | a duck meditation and a goose poem, so quack, quack. |
| 1:53.8 | The only real order of business we have this week is very soon the power of awareness will |
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