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Ep. 78 - Nachiketa and the Lord of Death

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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What Matters Is Who Are You Behind This Body?

My teacher Ajahn Chah, who lived in the forests of the Mekong River Valley, and practiced as a sadic wandering monk for a long time. He did all these wild yogic practices, some of which I started to talk about last week in very modest ways. And then he went to see the greatest meditation master of that era. The teacher looked at him and said, you've missed the point. What matters is to whom do they happen? So turn your attention from the experiences themselves back to awareness and ask, who am I?And become the knowing itself, become the awareness, the loving awareness,. Because this is your Buddha nature, this is your true nature.

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