Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Ep. 239 – Heart As Big As the Sky

May 22, 2024

Explore techniques for overcoming aversion and fear, loving your negative states, and growing your heart as big as the sky. Learn about the importance of dropping attachments and living in the present moment. Discover how meditation can help cultivate fearlessness and interconnectedness.

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Embody compassion to overcome aversion and fear by bringing them into the heart, not the rational mind.

Release attachments and views to liberate from suffering patterns, fostering authenticity and wisdom.

Deep dives

Introduction to Inner Academy by Rachel

The Inner Academy is a virtual Dharma Hall offering over 200 hours of teachings and practices by wisdom teachers like Ramdas and Sharon Salzberg, aiming to blend ancient wisdom with modern living. The Inner Academy provides guidance for finding balance and presence in daily life, catering to various stages of personal journeys through annual or monthly memberships.

Introduction

2min

Exploring Freedom from Suffering and Tactical Techniques for Transformation

3min

Embracing Inner Struggles with Compassion

17min

Humorous Misadventures of a Bricklayer

3min

Embracing Imagination and Inner Peace

8min

Discovering Fearlessness and Interconnectedness through Meditation

4min

Unveiling how to grow your heart as big as the sky, Jack shares the spiritual antidote for aversion, negativity, and fear.

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"Let your heart be as big as your whole experience, like the sky." – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

Overcoming aversion by "bringing it into your heart" rather than your rational mind
Touching into emotions, fears, and judgements with compassion instead of aversion
Using techniques like "noting/naming" for moving past intense feelings
Loving your negatives states as you would love your own child
Seeing clearly the karma, value, and consequence of your personal patterns
Who would you be if you dropped your opinions, views, identity?
Growing your heart to the size of the sky
Practicing the 'art of letting go'
Learning to live in the reality 'the Now'
Why Buddha had a better time than most
Painting as a doorway to spiritual experience
Transmuting difficulties by dropping our resistance to them
How to hold healthy views without being attached to them

"In this space of Now, it's not necessary to have fear. In this place of Now, we can rest." – Jack Kornfield

"If we want to create peace, or if we want to live free from greed, hatred and delusion, the place to start is in ourselves." – Jack Kornfield

Learn the Dynamic Art of Interactive Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield in an online masterclass cohort starting this June.

This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 1/1/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Ep. 239 – Heart As Big As the Sky

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Introduction to Inner Academy by Rachel

Teaching by Jack Cornfield on Overcoming Views and Opinions

Guidance for Letting Go and Living in the Present Moment

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts