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Published May 3, 2022

An Open, Spacious Awareness Meditation with Jack Kornfield - Heart Wisdom Ep. 148

Jack Kornfield leads a transformative journey into a vast, open awareness, merging philosophical insights with a guided meditation that emphasizes mindfulness, compassion, and the balance of life's dualities. Through loving awareness, listeners learn to cultivate a peaceful heart amidst the ever-changing 'worldly winds.'
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  • Loving Awareness

    guides listeners into a state of loving awareness, encouraging them to rest in a vast, open space that allows all things to arise and pass without limitation. He describes this state as being like the sky, where thoughts, emotions, and sensations float by like clouds, emphasizing the importance of being a compassionate witness to these experiences.

    You are the Buddha resting in vastness, seeing the arising and passing of all things with the great heart of compassion, peaceful in the midst of it all.

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    This practice fosters a sense of timeless consciousness, where one is not defined by the body or transient thoughts but by a deeper, loving awareness 1 2.

       

    Peaceful Heart

    The practice of cultivating a peaceful heart is central to 's meditation guidance. He invites participants to sit with alertness and ease, embodying a sense of graciousness akin to a king or queen on a throne. This meditation encourages an open heart amidst life's challenges, fostering equanimity and compassion.

    Let yourself find a way to sit that's stable and comfortable, where you can sit upright with a sense of alertness, but at the same time a graciousness and ease.

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    By embracing the worldly winds of change, one can maintain a steady, spacious heart, perceiving universal harmony even in the face of adversity 3.

       

    Compassion & Awareness

    In extending compassion and awareness, draws on the teachings of the Buddha to guide listeners in holding themselves and others in a vast space of compassion. He reflects on the suffering caused by fear, greed, and anger, and encourages sending love and blessings in all directions.

    From a place of vast peace, the Buddhists surveyed the threefold world with eyes of compassion and saw beings who are lost and confused in fear and greed, in hate and anger, causing suffering for themselves and others.

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    This practice serves as a reminder of one's innate nobility and freedom, fostering a shared space of stillness and loving awareness 4.

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