On this defining speak, Jack shares his adventurous journey to Thai meditation grasp Ajahn Chah, and the way upon returning dwelling, he needed to study to embody a coronary heart of authenticity.
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“Being with Ajahn Chah was being with an individual who rested of their Buddha Nature, their very own true nature. He was simply himself. He was actually at peace with himself. You would really feel it from the power of his presence, rooted like an amazing tree within the earth.” – Jack Kornfield
On this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- His mystical journey to study with Thai meditation grasp Ajahn Chah,
- Needing to work his method down the chakras to totally reside this human life
- Sudden awakening versus gradual change on the religious path
- Ramana Maharshi and liberation by way of going through one’s personal dying
- How you can reside in your soul and dance your distinctive dance
- What it’s like hanging out with monks coated in wild bees
- Ajahn Chah’s tree-like high quality of roundedness, freedom, and openness
- Matching our ideas and actions with our values
- His first time expertise rapture in meditation
- The transformative elements of remedy, bodywork, marriage, household
- Ram Dass and the therapeutic high quality of presence
- Navigating variations in our romantic relationships
- Studying to acknowledge the ache and loss beneath our anger
- Opening to life’s classes of compassion, knowledge, and wakefulness
- The reward of religious group and sharing our authenticity
- Embodying the timeless everlasting reality of mindfulness, intimacy, and wakefulness
“To like one other particular person simply as they’re is the one sort of love that makes any sense.” – Jack Kornfield
“There’s an intimacy and a presence that’s true about mindfulness: it’s both now or by no means.” – Jack Kornfield
This Dharma Speak recorded on 9/14/1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Middle was initially revealed on DharmaSeed.
About Jack Kornfield:
Jack Kornfield educated as a Buddhist monk within the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, learning as. a monk below the Buddhist grasp Ven. Ajahn Chah, in addition to the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is without doubt one of the key academics to introduce Buddhist mindfulness follow to the West. Jack co-founded the Perception Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation academics Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Middle in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and bought greater than 1,000,000 copies.
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