Ep. 253 – Healing Through Meditation: An In-Body Experience

Aug 28, 2024

In this enlightening discussion, Jack Kornfield, a renowned Buddhist teacher, dives deep into the power of meditation for healing and transformation. He emphasizes the importance of cultivating an ‘in-body experience’ to embrace emotions and present-moment awareness. The conversation touches on societal addictions and the need for compassion, as well as the profound healing that reconnecting with our senses can provide. Jack also shares stories about mindfulness, the Buddha's teachings, and finding joy amidst suffering, inviting listeners to transform their lives through inner connection.

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Intro

00:00 • 2min

Embracing In-Body Experiences in Meditation

01:42 • 4min

Mindfulness and Healing through Compassionate Service

05:48 • 22min

The Impact of Societal Addictions on Conscious Living

27:55 • 3min

The Healing Power of Mindfulness and Innocent Reflections

31:05 • 5min

Exploring healing through meditation, Jack shares on kundalini, addiction, suffering, and the transformation of having an ‘in body experience.’

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“You have heard of ‘out of the body experiences,’ but what we’re after is something more unusual and important, an ‘in the body experience.'” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully illuminates:

Finding strength, wakefulness, and compassion amidst it all
The Coconut Monk and the Jesus-Buddha connection
Finding compassion and joy despite suffering and war
Healing—what it is, how it arises, and how we can connect with it
Listening and respect as the ground for healing
Finding and living a path with heart
Mindfulness, breath, attention, noting, and the Buddha
Meditation and having an ‘in-body experience’
Kundalini and opening the energy body
Learning to handle both pleasure and pain
Buddha and finding the Middle Way
The healing of reconnecting with our senses and world around us
What addictions really mean in an addicted society
Facing our suffering as the gateway to the precious mystery of life
Reading children’s direct messages to God

“There’s a healing that comes just in reconnecting with the senses and the world around us.” – Jack Kornfield

“As we begin to practice together, we can sense that meditation and spiritual work is to bring a heartfelt awareness to our life, and out of this there comes an awakening or opening, which we call healing.” – Jack Kornfield

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This episode recorded in late December 1991 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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