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

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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What to Do With Desire, Desire and Fear

When these states of mind arise, restlessness or desire or fear, wanting, or judgment, I don't like this, or worry or agitation, what to do with them. Note how they feel in the body. There's desire. Desire runs much of our world. Most of us are either afraid of it and stuff it down or we act it out. See if when judgment or anger arises, if you can just sit and note angry, furious, judging, whatever it is,. And then maybe you can learn not to be quite so caught in it. Doesn't mean it won't still come, heaven knows, but that your relationship to it can be a wiser one. Do it

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