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
