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Out of the Woods

Inviting in calm, strength, and steadiness, Jack leads a guided meditation into the heart of mindful loving awareness.

This guided meditation was originally recorded on 2/19/2024 for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. Register to join Jack's next livestream at JackKornfield.com/events

"Feel the weight of your body, gravity, and how the earth completely supports you when you let go into your seat. You're met by the strength and steadiness of the earth itself. You can rest on her. – Jack Kornfield

In this fresh episode, Jack leads a guided meditation for:

- Inviting in a sense of ease and calm
- Relaxing into mindful loving awareness
- Finding a steady, grounded, rooted posture
- Keeping a natural, soft, and flowing breath
- Quieting the mind and watching experience unfold
- Noticing the arising and passing away of all phenomena
- Allowing yourself into rest, trust, and relaxation

Learn to live beautifully with Jack Kornfield and Dr. Dan Siegel in their new online journey, Living Beautifully: Transformative Science and Mindfulness Practices to Cultivate a Wise Heart. Register at https://bit.ly/JackandDan

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 234 – Guided Meditation: Mindful Loving Awareness

Jack and the ‘Grandfather of Gratitude,’ Brother David Steindl-Rast, delve into sacred reflections on death, where Buddha meets Jesus, the power of compassion, the positive side of grief, and beyond.

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“The process of grieving that breaks this little heart, which closes itself in itself, opens us to the heart that we all share, the one heart that we all have in common.” – Brother David Steindl-Rast

In this sacred dialogue, Jack, Brother David, and Frank Ostaseski reflect on:

- How Christianity and Buddhism fit together spiritually
- The compassionate smile of Buddha meeting the sacred heart of Jesus Christ
- The positive side of grief: opening to the collective heart
- Death and grace in both traditions
- Deconditioning from a difficult mother
- Harnessing the power of your common sense
- A funny story about the Pope, and how to awaken to who we already are
- Jack’s journey to the Temple of the Coconut Monk
- How to handle pain like a Burmese Master
- How to forgive yourself and overcome remorse
- Diffusing suicidal tendencies by cultivating self-compassion
- Guided meditations and sacred chants from Jack and Brother David

“In a meditative way, one of the big pieces of being able to love, or touch, or open, or live, is really the work of forgiveness, grace, and receiving yourself in all of your complexity and loving.” – Jack Kornfield

“Compassion, loving kindness, and understanding are our true nature, our true state.” – Jack Kornfield

This conversation recorded on 6/30/1988 was originally published on DharmaSeed.

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom 236 – Sacred Reflections w/ Br. David Steindl-Rast & Frank Ostaseski

Jack and trauma expert, Peter A Levine, PhD, map the path to healing through imagination, curiosity, somatic experiencing, and loving awareness.

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“Healing has to be coming together through the minute particulars in the body and in the story that’s actually our experience and not some idea about it.” – Jack Kornfield

In this fresh conversation, Jack and Dr. Levine dive into:

- Mapping trauma and the path to healing suffering
- A relaxing Jack “Just Here: Guided Meditation” on loving awareness
- How An Autobiography of Trauma led to Peter’s powerful healing journey
- Working with the astrological and Jungian archetype of Chiron, the Wounded Healer
- Somatic Experiencing and the roots of healing trauma in the body
- The transformative aspects of meeting trauma with loving kindness and persistence
- Curiosity as a necessary factor of enlightenment
- How the gift of Jack’s childhood trauma led him to discover Buddhism
- Imagination and Peter’s mystical meet-ups with Albert Einstein
- Miracles, intuition, and psychic premonition/knowing
- What Jack shared with his scientific-materialist atheist father on his deathbed
- Our inseparable connection and recognition that it’s always “us” in this web of life

“The whole notion that we are separate is a fabrication. We are in a field of consciousness.” – Jack Kornfield

About Peter A Levine, PhD:

Dr. Peter A. Levine has worked in the field of stress and trauma for over 40 years, is the developer of the Somatic Experiencing method, and founder of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education. To connect more with Peter’s teachings, pick up a copy of his illuminating book, An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey, and sign up for his upcoming classes and programs at SomaticExperiencing.com

This conversation was originally filmed on 5/24/24 by the Ergos Institute of Somatic Experiencing as a community health somatic support benefit for MathMoms in Cape Town, South Africa. Learn more about this compassionate initiative here at mathmoms.co.za

Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 244 – An Autobiography Of Trauma With Peter A Levine, PhD

An Evening with The Gallaghers celebrates the songbook of brothers Noel and Liam, with 52 covers to mark Liam's birthday in 2024.

Find an essay about their band Oasis here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DHHKM8H1/

An Evening with The Gallaghers: All Around The World

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the poem

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jester

wave on

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listen up

a meditative journey of your breath and heart

breathe

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