Now, having let him talk for a while, you see how he says things that are pretty interesting!

THAT was a decent length for an interruption! Bodhichita FTW

Illustrating how to free yourself from fear and opinion, Jack reveals how to overcome suffering by cultivating a pure heart.

This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/heartwisdom and get on your way to being your best self.

"The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there." – Robert M. Pirsig

In this episode, Jack skillfully illuminates:

- Skillful ways to free yourself from stuck views and opinions
- Ram Dass's teaching advice to Jack
- Balancing life's sufferings with life's joys
- Zen wisdom on how to drop your views
- Accepting what you see and rejecting what you think
- Overcoming suffering by living with a pure heart
- Buddha's 'Fire Sermon' teachings
- The way attachment connects to fear, and how to get to the root
- How views and opinions keep you separate, ego-focused, and defensive
- Working with racism and fear by imbibing wakefulness and mindfulness
- Overcoming opinions and and views by the method of noting/naming

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

Learn the Dynamic Art of Interactive Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield in an online masterclass cohort starting this June! http://bit.ly/InteractiveCohort

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 238 – Freeing Yourself From Fear And Opinion

Thank you to all of our listeners for a fantastic first season of This Is Science with Jess Phoenix! We are grateful for your support, and stay tuned for the start of Season 2 in just a few weeks.

Season 2 Is Coming!

In a dharma talk on working with thoughts and emotions, Joseph Goldstein explains the impersonal and empty nature of the mind.

This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein teaches us about: 

- Observing how mind states and thoughts mutually condition each other
- The way that thoughts carry us away into different emotional states
- Looking at the direct nature and meaning of thought
- Noticing the difference between being lost and being awake
- Viewing our thoughts just as they arise
- Not overthinking and focusing on the simplicity of a practice
- The six things that are ever arising or passing: our senses
- Maintaining open awareness and experiencing the flow

“Well, what is a thought? It’s quite remarkable because when we look at that level, not on the level of the story or the content, but thought as a phenomenon, we see that it is barely more than nothing. It is so phenomenal. These thoughts arise, and the content can be so compelling, but as a phenomenon, as the nature of thought, it’s just this little energy blip in the mind. If we’re not getting hooked by the content, it has no power at all.” – Joseph Goldstein

Buddhist Teacher Joseph Goldstein On Getting Insight On The Nature of Thought – Insight Hour Ep. 200

This week on Mindrolling, RamDev and Raghu discuss:

RamDev’s background in mathematics and recognizing patterns
How people in the West are not as embodied as in the East
The first three chakras of fear, guilt, and shame
Psychedelics and other dimensions of reality
Going beyond separateness
Compassion and non-dual practices
Taming the monkey-mind
Sub ek and quantum entanglement
Stories about Maharaj-ji’s mystical existence
Hope for the future and allowing our hearts to be vulnerable
A meditation around inclusivity through compassion
About RamDev:

Dale Borglum is the founder and Executive Director of The Living/Dying Project. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illness and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility for people who wished to die consciously in the United States, The Dying Center. He has taught and lectured extensively on the topics of spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, on caregiving as a spiritual practice, and on healing at the edge, the edge of illness, of death, of loss, of crisis. Check out RamDev’s podcast, Healing at the Edge, on the Be Here Now Network.

Learn more about The Living/Dying Project at livingdying.org

“In Buddhism, they say that when the mind is totally awakened, naturally arising compassionate activity occurs. You don’t have to try to be compassionate, you are compassion. Compassion is not even an emotion, it’s a state of openness of the heart in relationship to suffering.” – RamDev

Ep. 542 – Naturally Arising Compassion with RamDev Dale Borglum-

Offering wisdom on the challenging yet necessary work of spiritual practice, Krishna Das explains working through difficulty and finding answers in ourselves.

This time on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das offers wisdom on:

Dealing with family issues
Untying emotional knots through practice
Doing spiritual work and cleaning our hearts
Releasing the programming from our past
Treating others well and making positive karma
Chanting, mantra repetition, and serving others for deeper consciousness
Continual growth in spiritual practice
Being present, being with the sound of the name
Experiencing the space around our thoughts
Finding answers within ourselves
The roots of depression and anger

Today’s episode originally aired on Krisha Das’ “Hanging Out In the Heart Space” online satsang on May 5th, 2022. Be sure to subscribe to Krishna Das on Youtube to get new episodes of “Hanging Out In the Heart Space”, fresh music from KD and more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtzvMbKEud7MqkIVdFjfHXQ

“Removing the energy out of the traumatic experiences and experiences that formed us is a big job. It’s a really big thing. Don’t think of it as a waste of time. It’s our spiritual work. We’re cleaning our hearts of anger, betrayal, hurt, damage, grief, and shame, all the stuff that we’ve learned and absorbed as children in our families and in life.” – Krishna Das

Krishna Das on Doing Our Spiritual Work– Pilgrim Heart Podcast Ep. 156

Highlighting the impermanence of experience, Joseph Goldstein leads a practice in noticing mental and physical sensations.

This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/insighthour and get on your way to being your best self.

This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein offers a guided practice on: 

Working with thought and emotion
Full body awareness without effort or struggling
Noticing the breath and other sensations
Being aware of thoughts just as they are arising
Opening up to the fullness of experience
The power of naming emotions
Sensing the impermanent nature of all things
Moving from the conceptual into direct experience
The seduction of our thoughts
This 2018 recording from an Insight Meditation Retreat was originally published by Dharmaseed

“We don’t have to do anything to make things change. The very nature of whatever is arising, whether it’s in the body or the mind, the very nature is that whatever arises will also pass away.” – Joseph Goldstein

A Guided Practice on Working with Thought and Emotions with Joseph Goldstein – Insight Hour Ep. 201

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

This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/heartwisdom and get on your way to being your best self.

"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

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

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

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 239 – Heart As Big As The Sky

Christian Nunes joins the podcast to discuss deepfakes, how they impact women in particular, how we can protect ordinary victims of deepfakes, and the current landscape of deepfake legislation. You can learn more about Christian's work at https://now.org and about the Ban Deepfakes campaign at https://bandeepfakes.org 

Timestamps:
00:00 The National Organisation for Women (NOW) 
05:37 Deepfakes and women 
10:12 Protecting ordinary victims of deepfakes 
16:06 Deepfake legislation 
23:38 Current harm from deepfakes 
30:20 Bodily autonomy as a right 
34:44 NOW's work on AI 

Here's FLI's recommended amendments to legislative proposals on deepfakes: 

https://futureoflife.org/document/recommended-amendments-to-legislative-proposals-on-deepfakes/

Christian Nunes on Deepfakes (with Max Tegmark)

Jackie Dobrinska and Bruce Damer chat about insight into ourselves and outsight into the world in this recording from the Ram Dass Explorers Club.

The Ram Dass Explorers Club is a free virtual group wherein members delve into pivotal movements within the psychedelic renaissance while paying homage to the enduring legacy of Ram Dass. Join HERE: https://www.ramdass.org/fellowship/#specialty

In this episode, host Jackie Dobrinska speaks with Bruce Damer about:

Ram Dass’ work and how he continues to inspire others
How Bruce came to know Ram Dass
The way that Ram Dass hits on the center of things
Albert Einstein and thought experiments
Entering flows of connection and time
The etymology of psychedelics
How we create our own realities
Coming into embodied wisdom and the serpent of the internet
Ram Dass as a beacon to the reality we need
Navigating psychedelics and having adequate preparation
Knowing that we are always held by love

About Dr. Bruce Damer:
Dr. Bruce Damer is a scientist, psychonaut, and humanitarian. Dr. Damer is Chief Scientist at BIOTA Institute, UC Santa Cruz. He is an astrobiologist working on the science of life’s origins, spacecraft design, psychedelics and genius. Dr. Bruce has spent his life pursuing two great questions: how did life on Earth begin, and how can we give that life (and ourselves) a sustainable pathway into the cosmos? A decade of scientific research with his collaborator Prof. David Deamer at the UC Santa Cruz Department of Biomolecular Engineering resulted in the Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life published in the journal Astrobiology in 2019. Dr. Damer also has a long career working with NASA on mission simulation and design and recently co-developed a spacecraft to utilize resources from asteroids. You can keep up with Dr. Bruce Damer on Twitter.

About Jackie Dobrinska:

Jackie Dobrinska is the Director of Education, Community & Inclusion for Ram Dass’ Love, Serve, Remember Foundation and the current host of Ram Dass’ Here & Now podcast. She is also a teacher, coach, and spiritual director with the privilege of marrying two decades of mystical studies with 15 years of expertise in holistic wellness. As an interspiritual minister, Jackie was ordained in Creation Spirituality in 2016 and has also studied extensively in several other lineages – the plant-medicine-based Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, Sri Vidya Tantra, Western European Shamanism, Christian Mysticism, the Wise Woman Tradition, and others. Today, in addition to building courses and community for LSRF, she leads workshops and coaches individuals to discover, nourish and live from their most authentic selves. 

Learn more about Jackie’s work at asimplevibrantlife.com.

“We can create our realities. We’ll determine whether we are constricted or opened at every moment by our choices of what we produce for our fellow humans.” – Bruce Damer

Ep. 170 - Insight into Ourselves, Outsight into the World with Bruce Damer & Jackie Dobrinska

Reflecting on spirituality and synchronicity, Dr. Lisa Miller talks with Raghu about the capacity to have an awakened mind and heart.

This time on Mindrolling, Dr. Lisa and Raghu talk about: 
Dr. Miller’s synchronistic connection with Ram Dass
Identifying threads of lived, spiritual human life in clinical psychology
Being born with the capacity to awaken
Cultivating our relationship to the transcendent
The difference between a spiritual experience and a fully integrated spiritual life
An awakened heart and mind as a protective factor against despair
The mental health epidemic in our country
Trust and moments of unconditional love
Radical love on Dr. Lisa’s journey to parenthood
How suffering brings us closer to God

“There’s nothing at all in the clinical sciences and the social sciences that is as profoundly curative and protective against the diseases of despair (addiction, depression, even suicide) as an awakened heart, an awakened mind.” – Dr. Lisa Miller

About Dr. Lisa Miller:
Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia University, Teachers College, where she founded the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program in spirituality and psychology. She is also the Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality and Founder and Former Co-Editor of the APA journal, Spirituality in Clinical Practice. Dr Miller is the books The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child. Learn more about Dr. Miller on her

The Awakened Brain with Dr. Lisa Miller & Raghu Markus – Mindrolling Podcast Ep. 543

Stephen Batchelor, a Secular Buddhist teacher and former monk, joins the FLI Podcast to discuss the project of awakening, the facets of human nature which contribute to extinction risk, and how we might better embrace existential threats.

 Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The projects of awakening and growing the wisdom with which to manage technologies
-What might be possible of embarking on the project of waking up
-Facets of human nature that contribute to existential risk
-The dangers of the problem solving mindset
-Improving the effective altruism and existential risk communities

You can find the page for this podcast here: https://futureoflife.org/2020/10/15/stephen-batchelor-on-awakening-embracing-existential-risk-and-secular-buddhism/

Timestamps: 

0:00 Intro
3:40 Albert Einstein and the quest for awakening
8:45 Non-self, emptiness, and non-duality
25:48 Stephen's conception of awakening, and making the wise more powerful vs the powerful more wise
33:32 The importance of insight
49:45 The present moment, creativity, and suffering/pain/dukkha
58:44 Stephen's article, Embracing Extinction
1:04:48 The dangers of the problem solving mindset
1:26:12 Improving the effective altruism and existential risk communities
1:37:30 Where to find and follow Stephen

This podcast is possible because of the support of listeners like you. If you found this conversation to be meaningful or valuable, consider supporting it directly by donating at futureoflife.org/donate. Contributions like yours make these conversations possible.

Stephen Batchelor on Awakening, Embracing Existential Risk, and Secular Buddhism

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change.

The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions.

FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles.

Stephen Batchelor on Awakening, Embracing Existential Risk, and Secular Buddhism

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