Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Exploring how compassionate speech and mindful listening can transform our lives, Jack shares how we can navigate culture’s web of lies by using the energy of Wise Speech to truly awaken.

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“[Wise Speech] is really about compassion—it’s being aware of the power of speech, and using it to express what is conscious and what brings freedom.” – Jack Kornfield

Exploring the third step of the Eightfold Path, Jack mindfully shares on:

• Wise Speech / Right Speech as a factor of awakening
• Compassion, non-harming, and embodying Buddha Nature
• Ram Dass’s “Hopi-Hippie Be-In” and what it means to ‘speak the truth’
• Navigating culture’s and advertising’s web of lies
• Speaking from your deepest truth and knowing
• Buddha and using the energy of speech to awaken
• What it means to truly listen to another human being
• Compassionate communication and listening
• Discerning your intention and motivation when talking to people
• Speaking like a Buddha and treasuring our speech
• The simple pleasure of talking and communication
• Using your words for justice, truth, love, and wisdom
• Letting go of pride and needing to be right
• A “Wise Speech” guided meditation
• Chanting the seed syllable “Ah”

“The key to listening and speaking wisely is the intention—our intention to learn, to discover, to hear something that we haven’t understood.” – Jack Kornfield

“The possibility, if we are to live an awakened life, is to foster that speech that comes from our deeper knowing.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk recorded in 1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Exploring the great mystery of life and existence, Jack shares enlightening insights on the playful nature of wisdom.

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"The beautiful thing is, wisdom is gracious." – Jack Kornfield

Fresh from an adventure in Costa Rica, Jack offers wisdom on:

• Spelunking the great mystery of life
• Wisdom as inherently gracious and playful
• Balancing compassion with emptiness
• How to speak with suffering people
• Joanna Macy and the "Great Turning" of human civilization
• Ram Dass, Ajahn Chah, and Stephen Levine
• "Central Casting" and the human experience
• How Jack and his colleagues handle their own aging

"It's all empty and it all matters." – Jack Kornfield

"Meditation is not about gaining or attaining something, it's about seeing the world with the heart of wisdom." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk was originally recorded on 2/19/2024 for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. Register to join Jack's next livestream at JackKornfield.com/events

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Leaning into the qualities of an awakened heart, Jack Kornfield teaches us the perfection of truthfulness and how it will set us free.

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In a society that does not promote the truth among its citizens, government, or economy, we have to work hard on our individual honesty. Sometimes that may mean something quite surface-level. Jack says that there are levels of truth. We may see the truth of someone's personality, their job, and their costume. Or, we may see a deeper, soul level of truth. Meeting someone in their true spirit, from our true spirit, allows everyone to be fully seen.

"The truth really becomes married with compassion and our words then become a part of something that awakens not just ourselves but everybody else." – Jack Kornfield

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This time on the Heart Wisdom Podcast, Jack Kornfield shares teachings from The Buddha about the process of realizing, overcoming and liberating that comes from mindfulness practice.

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This week on Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield lectures on false gurus, cults, and finding true teachers along our spiritual path.

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This dharma talk from Joseph was originally published on Dharma Seed

“We have this amazing capacity to take situations and imagine them to be different than they are.” – Jack Kornfield

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