Jack Kornfield on Inner Freedom Through Mindfulness
10/26/21 • 50 min
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Jack Kornfield is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Over the years, Jack has taught in centers and universities worldwide. He’s led international Buddhist teacher meetings and has worked with many of the great teachers of our time. He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and his books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies. He is also a father, a husband, and an activist.
In this episode, Eric and Jack discuss his book, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are
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In This Interview, Jack Kornfield and I Discuss Inner Freedom Through Mindfulness and ...
- His book, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are
- The first step to dealing with difficult emotions is seeing and accepting what’s there
- How practicing mindfulness expands your window of tolerance
- Tools to help us remember the vastness
- Remembering that our story is always changing
- How we are bound to experience both the beauty and pain in life
- The importance of compassion
- How there are many simple practices to transform our heart and mind
- Choosing the best spiritual practices based on what we’re drawn to
- His work with Father Greg Boyle, writer of Tattoos on the Heart
- The possibility of seeing the Buddha-nature in every human being
- The refuge in community and how we need each other
- Trusting that we’re part of something bigger than ourselves
- Learning to trust our inner knowledge, heart, and body
- Accepting our fear and understanding that growth comes after fear
- The doubting mind and our capacity to recognize it
- Learning to not judge the thoughts that come up in meditation
- His shift in life from actively getting things done into relaxing more and seeing how things turn out
- How we all have the seeds of awakening within us
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Jack Kornfield is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Over the years, Jack has taught in centers and universities worldwide. He’s led international Buddhist teacher meetings and has worked with many of the great teachers of our time. He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and his books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies. He is also a father, a husband, and an activist.
In this episode, Eric and Jack discuss his book, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are
But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!
In This Interview, Jack Kornfield and I Discuss Inner Freedom Through Mindfulness and ...
- His book, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are
- The first step to dealing with difficult emotions is seeing and accepting what’s there
- How practicing mindfulness expands your window of tolerance
- Tools to help us remember the vastness
- Remembering that our story is always changing
- How we are bound to experience both the beauty and pain in life
- The importance of compassion
- How there are many simple practices to transform our heart and mind
- Choosing the best spiritual practices based on what we’re drawn to
- His work with Father Greg Boyle, writer of Tattoos on the Heart
- The possibility of seeing the Buddha-nature in every human being
- The refuge in community and how we need each other
- Trusting that we’re part of something bigger than ourselves
- Learning to trust our inner knowledge, heart, and body
- Accepting our fear and understanding that growth comes after fear
- The doubting mind and our capacity to recognize it
- Learning to not judge the thoughts that come up in meditation
- His shift in life from actively getting things done into relaxing more and seeing how things turn out
- How we all have the seeds of awakening within us
Jack Kornfield Links:
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Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly
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The One You Feed - Jack Kornfield on Inner Freedom Through Mindfulness
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It's the universal understanding that hatred never ends. By hatred, but by love alone is yield. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of
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