Helping us reflect on our daily habits and feelings, Jack shares how Right Attitude, Wise Aspiration, and Mindful Thought allow us to uncover the sweet joy of living in The Way.

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“With Wise Attitude we begin to discover the power of kindness, the joy in not grasping, the delight in generosity, the ease in letting go, and the immediacy of freedom and liberation that is here in every moment.” – Jack Kornfield

Exploring the second step of the Eightfold Path, Jack mindfully shares on:

• Right Attitude, Wise Thought, the second step on the Eightfold Path
• Seeing directly the true power of mind and heart
• Overcoming habitual patterns of thought, action, and attitude
• The Buddha on nobility, integrity, and the heart
• Overcoming greed, hatred, and delusion
• Knowing the sweet joy of living in The Way
• Wise Aspiration and the path of the Bodhisattva
• Reflecting on our attitude around death
• Rumi, Stephen Levine, Martin Luther King Jr, Suzuki Roshi, and Alan Watts
• Taking what life gives us as “grist for the mill” of awakening
• Examining spiritual teachings in our own life (what works, what doesn’t?)
• Trading ‘protection and defensiveness’ for ‘openness and curiosity’
• Accepting each moment as an unrepeatable miracle
• Beginner’s Mind and Don’t Know Mind
• Openness, respect, and compassion

“It is knowing what is true that brings ourselves freedom. We don’t get free by making ourselves free.” – Jack Kornfield

“It is only through mercy, through the kindness of compassion, that reconciliation happens, that what’s locked in suffering begins to grow and breathe new life.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk recorded in 1992 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Intersecting the Buddha’s ‘Wise Understanding’ with Alan Watt’s ‘Wisdom of Insecurity,’ Jack illuminates the path of discovering lasting happiness.

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“Spiritual life is not about possessing or finding security, but rather it’s discovering what Alan Watts called, ‘the wisdom of insecurity,’ the capacity for freedom and compassion of heart, no matter what the circumstances. Right Understanding is a willingness to dedicate ourself to awakening, no matter how conditions change.” – Jack Kornfield

Exploring the first step of the Eightfold Path, Jack mindfully shares on:

• The Buddha, Enlightenment, the Eightfold Path, and Four Noble Truths
• How to live a wise, mindful, happy, and loving life
• The Middle Path as the pathway to freedom
• Wise Understanding, the first step on the Eightfold Path
• Suffering, it’s causes, and how to alleviate it
• Where happiness actually comes from
• Working with clinging, grasping, aging, aversion, fear
• Impermanence, change, and the wisdom of insecurity
• Spiritual Direction and the journey of the soul
• The seed of awakening your Buddha Nature
• Understanding the Law of Karma
• Finding nirvana through our current circumstances
• Having compassion for what puts us to sleep
• Tending your heart to tend the whole world

“Buddha saw that the cause of happiness and the cause of suffering is not so much in life itself, but in the way that we relate to life.” – Jack Kornfield

“Right understanding tells us that we can dedicate our life to something beautiful.” – Jack Kornfield

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Discover how to shift from trauma to loving awareness through mindfulness, conscious healing, and compassionate activism with Jack Kornfield and Thomas Hübl, PhD.

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“Who you are is so much more than your trauma, you are consciousness itself.” – Jack Kornfield

In Part 2 of this episode originally airing for The Collective Trauma Summit in 2021, Jack and Thomas mindfully explore:

• Developing the skills to heal our trauma
• Jack’s time with meditation master, Maha Ghosananda
• The powerful connection between activism and spirituality
• Avoiding burnout, finding balance
• Transforming from skeptical to mystical
• Navigating the traumas in the Middle East
• Digesting our traumas
• Waking up from auto-pilot
• Expanding your window of tolerance
• How to face racism, war, economic disparity, the environment, etc
• Mindfulness, consciousness, and loving awareness

“The whole notion that spiritual practice doesn’t have anything to do with activism is a fiction.” – Jack Kornfield

“Every breath you take is the breath of the starlings and the breath of the earthworms and the soil. We’re all inter-breathing it together. That’s how it works, that’s what life is.” – Jack Kornfield

About Thomas Hübl, PhD:

Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma.

He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. For more info, books, podcast, and upcoming offerings, please visit thomashuebl.com

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