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Ep. 187 – The Three Characteristics of Life

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

CHAPTER

The Truth of Dukkha

We must use our practice fully to discover how we are caught and discover the heart of peace. We cannot avoid it because through impermanence and through having a body, it is part of experience but can learn to relate to it wisely. One of the most extraordinary things in visiting Mother Teresa's dying center in Calcutta was to see even people who were very poor and scrawny and sick from what would imagine to be a great deal of sorrow. The light of the heart of loving kindness is much greater than all the physical suffering in the world. It's quite amazing.

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