Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Ep. 213 – Don Juan Meets Buddha: Becoming a Spiritual Warrior

Nov 15, 2023

Jack Kornfield discusses the connection between Buddha's enlightenment qualities and Don Juan's teachings. Topics include qualities of a spiritual warrior, shamanism, inner-freedom, and the difference between an ordinary person and a warrior.

51:31

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Quick takeaways

The qualities of a spiritual warrior include impeccability, wise effort, courage, and controlled folly.

Strength and peacefulness are essential qualities for deep investigation and navigating life's challenges with serenity.

Deep dives

Exploring the Spiritual Path

In this podcast episode, the speaker shares their personal journey into the spiritual path, starting with their interest in psychedelics and philosophy. They mention how the discovery of Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan books provided them with wisdom and spiritual teachings that satisfied their curiosity and hunger for spiritual truths.

Introduction

3min

Encountering Carlos Castaneda's Book and the Wisdom of Don Juan

3min

The Mystery of Life and the Way of Awakening

4min

The Path of the Spiritual Warrior

18min

The Perspective of Controlled Folly and Living with Lightness

3min

The Impermanence of Life and the Importance of Connection

20min

Connecting the Buddha's wisdom with the teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda's infamous Yaqui shaman, Jack explores how to become a spiritual warrior.

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"There's a mysterious beauty that surrounds those individuals who live their lives as warriors, as men or women of knowledge." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:

How Buddha's factors of enlightenment (qualities of awakening) connect with Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda's infamous teacher and Yaqui shaman and sorcerer
Don Juan's wisdom of the 'Way of the Warrior' in relation to Buddhism
The qualities of living as a spiritual warrior: impeccability/wholeness, wise effort/energy, courage/investigation, controlled-folly (play/lightness), strength/concentration, and steadfastness/unshakeableness
Shamanism and cutting through our sense of separation into the root of consciousness
Finding inner-freedom by learning how to stop our internal dialogue

"The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse." – Carlos Castaneda (Author of The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge)

This talk from 12/31/1983 at Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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