Jack Kornfield – Coronary heart Knowledge – Ep. 134 – On Dying – Be Right here Now Community 2021

A flowing and mystical Jack Kornfield opens our hearts to the huge religious thriller of demise and impermanence.

Simply in time for Halloween and the transition into the winter season, Jack Kornfield shares a well timed lecture on demise from his ongoing Spirit Rock Monday evening livestreams.

October Holy-Days: Woven With Dying

Welcoming us right into a seasonally apropos lecture on demise and dying, Jack Kornfield begins the podcast by noting how the vacations (holy-days) which embody this a part of the yr—Halloween, Day of the Useless, Indigenous Peoples Day—are integrally woven along with demise, beginning, and the thriller.

“These holy-days are woven in with demise itself. And if we wish to change the world, if we wish to serve the world in some helpful method, we now have to face demise.” – Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield explores demise, id, and the heavenly messengers, on Ep. 110 of Coronary heart Knowledge

Taking Dying As An Advisor (15:45)

What does demise have to show us? Considering “demise as an advisor” via the metaphysical warrior lens of Carlos Castañeda & Don Juan’s “holding demise in your left shoulder,” Jack remembers his instances on the monastery, sitting on the charnel grounds watching our bodies being burned all through the evening, in addition to formally meditating on the decomposition of corpses.

“We did meditations on demise—we watched the decay of the physique. As I sat and obtained deep in meditation, I had these wonderful experiences the place my consciousness floated out of my physique. My physique was nonetheless sitting there and I might look out the window of the hut I used to be in and see issues that have been taking place. I noticed, ‘Wow, I’m not this physique!’ My physique would dissolve into vastness, into mild. Issues would come up and disappear, the entire world would disappear and reappear. And I started to see, from the quietest, deepest place, that who we’re is a play in consciousness, a play of consciousness.” – Jack Kornfield

Mirabai Bush & Ram Dass ‘Stroll Every Different Residence,’ sharing on demise and dying, on Ep. 133 of Right here & Now

Bodhisattvas: On the Bedside of Impermanence (39:45)

Jack displays on how these of us on the religious path are all the time on the bedside of beginning and demise, beginnings and endings, and impermanence. From this attitude, he shares Gary Synder’s timeless environmental knowledge, “Don’t put it aside since you really feel responsible; put it aside since you find it irresistible” – exemplifying how we are able to transfer previous struggling to domesticate a loving consciousness and belief for all sides of the polarities in life.

“These of you who follow the lifetime of compassion to scale back struggling for your self and all these round you—that’s you, you Bodhisattvas—all the time on the bedside of beginning and demise, of beginnings and endings, of impermanence. That is our position: to be with all issues that change, with an open coronary heart.” – Jack Kornfield

Plumb the depths of the mysteries of dying and loving, with Ram Dass, on Ep. 176 of Right here & Now

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