Jack Kornfield on Discovering the Great Way: Freedom from Attachment - Heart Wisdom Ep. 293

Описание: Exploring the ancient Zen teaching of the Great Way, Jack guides us toward freedom from attachment, clarity beyond preferences, and the liberating joy of letting go.

This episode recorded on 03/08/1993 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
*Finding freedom from attachment by learning to let go
*Can we meditate society’s problems away?
*What does it mean to seek wisdom, compassion, freedom?
*The Third Patriarch of Zen
*Finding the Great Way and seeing the truth
*Moving past our opinions and preferences
*How our desires blind us and manufacture our reality
*Suffering, impermanence, grasping, and not relying on reality
*The path to liberation from our grasping and fears
*The joy of letting go of our attachments and relaxing into what is
*Training ourselves to have an obedient mind of the Buddha
*Is there appropriate or wise attachment?
*Clarifying the full spectrum of attachment
*How to get out addiction and the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts
*Dealing with attachment to our isolation, our separateness
*Commitment as a healthy devoted attachment
*Seeking a Wise Relationship to ourselves, others, and the world
*The slippery slope of pleasure, into desire, into habit, into need
*Wise attachment vs unwise attachment
*The full spectrum of attachment and love

“Go where you wish—cave, monastery, India, Tibet, do what you like—your mind goes with you, that’s the problem.” – Jack Kornfield

About Jack Kornfield:
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, studying as a monk under the Buddhist master Ven. Ajahn Chah, as well as the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies.
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