Ep. 238 – Freeing Yourself From Fear and Opinion

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Illustrating how to free yourself from fear and opinion, Jack reveals how to overcome suffering by cultivating a pure heart.

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"The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there." – Robert M. Pirsig

In this episode, Jack skillfully illuminates:

Skillful ways to free yourself from stuck views and opinions
Ram Dass's teaching advice to Jack
Balancing life's sufferings with life's joys
Zen wisdom on how to drop your views
Accepting what you see and rejecting what you think
Overcoming suffering by living with a pure heart
Buddha's 'Fire Sermon' teachings
The way attachment connects to fear, and how to get to the root
How views and opinions keep you separate, ego-focused, and defensive
Working with racism and fear by imbibing wakefulness and mindfulness
Overcoming opinions and and views by the method of noting/naming

This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 1/1/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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1:08.0	For more, visit Ramdas.org forward slash interacademy. And so the Buddha looked out and he saw people caught in greed or fear or prejudice or hatred or delusion and out of tremendous mercy and
1:26.2	compassion he said you don't need to suffer like that if you're not interested in
1:30.4	that there's another possibility. If your heart becomes pure, if you
1:37.4	discover a purity of heart or being that is not caught up in greed and fear and prejudice and hatred and
1:45.2	delusion, then everything in the world will be fine for you. The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.
2:01.3	Robert M. Persig, as quoted by Jack Cornfield
2:06.2	in this wonderful episode of Heart Wisdom
2:09.0	238 freeing yourself from fear and opinion.
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