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Ep. 159 – Practice in Daily Life: Walking the Eightfold Path

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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Meditation - The First Foundation of Mindfulness

The first foundation of mindfulness to become wise is to come and live in our physical reality of our body. In our culture we don't listen to our bodies so much, he says. It's an open-hearted and non-judging awareness which comes into the body and into the feelings. Sometimes it gets very painful when you sit; sometimes it's pleasant. And that develops what is called in spiritual disciplines, a heart of greatness. If you open your mind and your body and your heart, what do you get? You get everything.

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