Ep. 237 – Discovering Peace Within Yourself

Ep. 237 – Discovering Peace Within Yourself

Uncovering how to find joy and freedom in any situation, Jack shares the roadmap for discovering peace within yourself.

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“Peace is the cessation of your struggle, it’s putting down the burden and letting things be as they actually are.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

  • Learning to be at peace with yourself and the world
  • How to meditate when it feels like you can’t meditate
  • The way emptiness connects with compassion
  • Reconciling where peace meets struggle
  • Peace as an internal state you can bring with you
  • Being Here Now, opening to life fully, and becoming intimate with all things
  • How we can find joy, liberation, and freedom in any situation
  • Dharma stories of the Buddha as well as the Bodhisattva Vimalakīrti
  • Coming to terms with the First Noble Truth of suffering, disappointment, and change
  • The transformative power of meeting life exactly as it is
  • What we can learn from both a “Duck Meditation,” “Goose Poem,” and a Tibetan Prayer
  • Love and it’s connection with courage


“We can’t come to rest because we’re at war with what’s actually here.” – Jack Kornfield

“To enter into the unknown is really to enter into the moment.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk originally recorded on 12/01/1989 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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Ep. 302 – Awakening the Lion’s Roar Within: Poetry of Courage, Compassion, and Wonder

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Ep. 301 – The Dharma of Poetry: Rumi, Beauty, Music, and the Art of Awakening

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Ep. 300 – This Very Place: Letting Go and Finding Freedom

Ep. 300 – This Very Place: Letting Go and Finding Freedom

In this rich and often humorous talk from the 1990s, Jack explores the art of letting go as the gateway to freedom, inviting us into the coolness of nirvana, and the wholeness found only here and now....

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Ep. 299 – The End of Exile: A Zen Love Story of Coming Home to Yourself

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Ep. 298 – The Dalai Lama’s Message for Modern Times: How to Live with Courage, Compassion, and Integrity

Ep. 298 – The Dalai Lama’s Message for Modern Times: How to Live with Courage, Compassion, and Integrity

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Ep. 297 – Advice from the Dalai Lama: The Fragrance of Nirvana

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