Jack Kornfield on the Finding Mastery Podcast with Michael Gervais, Ep. 259: Wisdom for our Times
Who you are is so much bigger than the emotions that come—and we live in a culture that doesn’t understand emotional mastery.
Tag: Vulnerability
Vulnerability and the Tender Heart
“Ultimately it is on our vulnerability that we depend.”—Rilke As children, many of us were taught courage in the form of the warrior or the…
Speak the Truth and Stand Up for Justice
The opposite of aggression is not passivity, it is true strength. When we have lost a sense of our innate nobility,we mistakenly believe in our…
Wonderful, Messy Failure
We all face praise and blame, joy and sorrow, gain and loss. To have compassion for your human vulnerability is a blessed, tender practice. Poet…
Honesty and a Non-Contentious Heart
The Buddha’s teachings point to a non-contentious heart. “There is gain and loss, slander and honor, praise and blame, pleasure and pain; the awakened ones…
Vulnerability and the Tender Heart
Several years ago some friends arranged for the Gyuto Tantric Choir, the Tibetan monks famous for their deep multivocal chanting, to perform in San Quentin…
