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Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Ep. 280 –The Healing Breath: Reawakening the Body, Reconnecting with Life

Mar 12, 2025
39:13

Fostering the mind-body-heart connection, Jack shares how the healing breath reawakens the body and reconnects us with life.

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In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack mindfully explores:

  • Using breath to live wisely and simply in this complex human existence
  • Good spiritual community as an island of peace and sanity
  • Seeing past negative fear politics and news media
  • A Charm to Use Against the Language of Politics
  • The Buddha on mindfulness of your life breath
  • Noting the subtle nuances of the breath in meditation
  • "Buddha in the palm of your hand" technique
  • Training the restless puppy of the mind
  • Using breath to reconnect body, heart, and mind
  • Short and simple guided breath practices
  • What the Cross and the Circle represent
  • Directing your breath to feel and open emotional wounds and dis-ease
  • Reawakening your body, and reconnecting with life, through breathing

"Most of the destruction that modern society has caused in the world is the result of the mind being disconnected from the heart and the body." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk originally taking place on 11/2/1992 at Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed.


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