Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield1 Okt 2024

Ep. 258 – Enlightenment as Intimacy: Where We're Going is Here

Speaking to progressing on the spiritual path, Jack explores enlightenment as true intimacy, and shares how: where we’re going is actually here.

“Where we’re going is here, and what we’re after doesn’t exist in time.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

Our idealistic/romantic notions of the spiritual path
Consciousness, impermanence, and working with human emotions
Wisdom stories of Ajahn Chah, Jack’s accomplished Thai meditation teacher
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the legend of building a Spiritual Amusement Park
Progress and patience along the spiritual path
Enlightenment as intimacy with all things
A guided meditation practice reflecting on life, death, and good deeds
Transforming the the world with one small act of kindness at a time
Honoring our own beauty and goodness
How compassion is characterized by true intimacy
Recognizing and coming to our spiritual maturity
Living like a Bodhisattva, and what it really means to ‘save all beings’
Alchemizing extreme suffering, trauma, and grief into compassion, forgiveness, and service

“Enlightenment is to be intimate with what’s here.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from 1/3/1991 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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