Jack Kornfield - Ep. 8 - Transforming Darkness
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Transforming Darkness: In attempting to draw light into our lives, we inevitably encounter the intrinsic darkness that surrounds our existence. Our task, as honorable beings, is to avoid letting the ignorant darkness take over our hearts, while simultaneously not averting our gaze. In meditation, we confront the full spectrum of experience, acknowledging these darker forces, and discovering the capacity to respond from a place of loving awareness. It will require the courage to act, but as the Buddha said, “If you can learn to dwell in your heart, offering love to all beings, that will be protection wherever you go.”
Episode Outline:
2 Kinds of Darkness - Fertile (From which all things arise - contains the potential of creation) and Blind/Unconscious (Operates below our basic level of awareness, often requires uncovering/recognition)
Practice - When we honor our meditation practice, we see everything - the full spectrum of our experience
Our Task - As honorable beings, we mustn’t let the outer (ignorant) darkness consume our hearts, while, simultaneously, not averting our eyes.
Violence - Has almost always been a part of our culture - What are the causes and conditions that create these negative aspects? We have to mourn tragedy, but also stand up for a different world. The darkness must be met with an equal force of love and courage
Dwell in the Heart - Never cease to offer love to all beings
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I love Jack Kornfield. He's unpretentious, undogmatic, and full of love.
Thank you. I hope to take a retreat with him. Jeff
This may be my favorite J Kornfield talk so far; definitely in the top 3. So many gems 🥰🤗😿🧘🏽♀️🙏🏽💖
Just beautiful and of such deep wisdom and gentleness. Thank you Jack
Beautifully unexpected. Thank you.
These inspiring ideas and the many hearttouching quotes and stories made me feel connected and supported. I was worried to go to my work in the youth welfare service during to the Corona crisis. Now I feel grounded, connected and willing to support. Thank you!
💕Love this man 💕
This is one of the darker and harder talks in this series - "not averting one's gaze" is a hard, but necessary.
I agree.
What a blessing to have found this!
Beautiful
Oh my goodness that last part about Christ blasted my heart open .
He is a authentic teacher, not like the money making machines like Eckhart Tolle/ Esther Hicks/ Oprah Winfrey
You've missed the message my friend.
I don't think Eckhart Tolle is a money-making machine. He;s very popular, his books are best sellers as are Jack's.
Thank you sweet friend! This was wonderful! Greetings from Athens, Greece. Namaste
Thank you, Jack~~
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beautiful! youre amazing guys, you make all the difference in the world to me
the only way to overcome darkness is by transcending the ego. Information.. even good information can't do it.
We have not become less violent. Violence has simply become more diffused and integrated. His discussion about our entertainment is a good example of that. Ditto the weapons industry he pointed to. I'll add that the violence of our culture and economic structures, along with their greater reach also support this observation. Furthermore, the outward large scale violence is lessened only because the entities with the greatest capacity for violence find it to be economically inconvenient...
As for increasing human rights? Well... No. Civil rights have been on the decline actually even since immediately after the Civil Rights struggle in the U.S. with re-segregation, white flight, reversal of civil rights laws and legeslation, increasing far right power and activity (they even have their own news channel in the mainstream!). and that's just dealing with the U.S. The U.S. has actually been exporting its religious extremism to the point that several African countries have passed laws that imprison and gives death sentences to people judged to be gay.
I could go on but any honest, earnest, open look at the world around and within us makes it plain that violence is not on the decline. There's no such thing as progress. That's because the fundamental motivations behind the problems has not been addressed.
I appreciate you honest take. Have you heard Chris Hedges? czcams.com/video/BMYjroVIDLA/video.html
There are some good humans. Most animals are good.
Yes.
"The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being and who among us is willing to destroy a piece of our own heart"?
what awakens love? the ego spends a lifetime trying to cultivate love.
I didnt understand how I can support this? Maybe someone can explain it to me. I get so much from this I would love to support if I can.
Thank you :-)
Thank you for your want to support us! We have a donation page over at beherenownetwork.com/donate/
Thank you!
I swear I can write my paper based on his anologies because I almost became a teacher at shambala and the scandal broke out talk about karma. I want to get my PhD in psychology now.
What scandal?
If the beginning of your message is give us money, then the people who need help through their troubled times aren’t going to find it with you
all these talks are free !!!!
If you want to support you can, if not then don't.
Sharing jacks innate common sense.. that's such a bad line.
This is my problem with Jack Kornfield--he says that when it comes to Israel's war crimes against the Palestinians, "there are two sides to every story." Well, true, but there are also two sides to the story of the German Holocaust, but when one of those sides is pro-genocide, it's pretty easy to choose sides. And here he talks about horrors on earth yet totally ignores the greatest horror--Israel's genocide another war crimes against the Palestinian people. Now he's asking for money. Get it from the pro-genocide Zionists who are supporting the most horrific crimes against humanity on earth.
Some jack hole responded, but deleted his response before I could reply. I'm not surprised; when he thought about his response, he realized he was supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people. Perhaps we can agree to disagree about some things, but when it comes to Zionist genocide, really, there's not a lot of room for disagreement.
I totally agree that the situation in Palestine is awful, and a travesty. It seems jack kornfied is however passionate about ending that. He took part in protests, organising a peace march in 2012. I think it’s just about letting go of our usual habits of seeing things as black and white, and being willing to engage and talk with both sides, as human beings.
This "both sides" crap needs to die. First, there are almost always more than just "2 sides" (In the case of israel, the U.S., Britain, and others have been and are very much integral to initiating and maintaining that situation). Second, the "sides" are rarely equal in nature. As
Darwin Holmstrom pointed out, do you really want to put the Nazi German regime and 12 million people slaughtered in the Holocaust, half of which were Jewish, on an equal footing? I'm sure you wouldn't "both sides" Stalin and the millions he slaughtered or "both sides" Chairman Mao and the millions he murdered, would you? You really want to "both sides" the oppressor and the oppressed? That's sick minded and sick hearted. Yes, there actually are instances and aspects that are "black and white". Sorry. Sure, not all of them and not most of them but certainly some of them.
I'm sorry, but robbing people of their land and country then wholesale oppressing them for decades doesn't get you an equal place at the table with those you continue to victimize. There's a thing called "truth and reconciliation." and that needs to take place along with remedying the oppression.
Yes sometimes the "both sides" idea is BS. But - with some clear exceptions - it is difficult sometimes to reconcile that while also trying not to view the world from one's particular point of view, which is a main tenet of the Buddhist philosophy he espouses. I know the travesties on Palestine are a horror. But I can think of a hundred other horrors and every one of them will have people saying that this one is THE most horrific crime against humanity. I dont think Jack Kornfield is your enemy, nor worth you putting your energy into protecting or having a problem with him, your energy for change can be better served another way surely?
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