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Ep. 151 - Happiness & Joy In Practice

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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The Happiness of No Longer Fighting

When you accept these basic truths of impermanence and ungraspability, then there comes the deepest kind of happiness possible. As don jan says, only as a man or woman of knowledge can you withstand the path of knowledge. That's not an easy thing, but it's possible. And that'st the centre through which the heart opens and the mind opens. Cause as one opens, it said, the temples get brighter, but the lines at the gates get fiercer. You look to see pain being there is equal to pleasure that they're both there.

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