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Ep. 186 – Expansion and Contraction

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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The Buddha's Awakening in Spiritual Practice

"The awakening of the heart of the Buddha, the awakening in spiritual life is to find the deepest respect and compassion for what it is," he says. "It's easy to be still superficial, kind of half asleep, moderately indifferent instead of really awake." He asks: What about when we really let ourselves feel that? The teaching of the Buddha directs us to discover the deepest freedom underlying all of these things of freedom of heart in the face of everything in life?"

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