Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"Life is a process of expansion and contraction. We breathe, and as we sit in meditation you notice there are long and short breaths, cool, fast, deeper ones and shallow ones. If you let it breath itself it has all these rhythms of the body opening and closing all the time. Then you pay attention to sensations in the body. At first it feels like tension, pain, hot, or cold, but the more deeply you listen with your inner-awareness, that which we call pain, tension, hot, or cold, becomes pulsing, throbbing, needles, pinpricks, swirling movement. The more deeply we feel, the more our body shows itself to be a river of sensation." β Jack Kornfield
π§β¨ From #HeartWisdom episode 197: Cycles of Change
jackkornfield.com/heart-wisdom-ep-197-cycles-of-change
In this episode, Jack mindfully elucidates:
β The Dalai Lamaβs view on the Big Bang Theory
β How when we open deeply to our feelings, we recognize the body as a flowing river of sensation
β The Buddhaβs βEight Worldly Windsβ and using mindfulness and Right Effort to navigate lifeβs cycles of expansion and contraction
β Ram Dass, Be Here Now, and the βrollercoaster of highs and lowsβ of spiritual practice
β Finding freedom in the still-point amidst the cycles of change
β Trusting ourselves and the universe enough to let go into the mystery
π Grab an All-Access Plan for Jackβs growing library of online courses at jackkornfield.com/all-access-pass
More ways to connect with Jack:
πͺ· Website: jackkornfield.com
πͺ· Facebook: facebook.com/jkornfield
πͺ· Instagram: instagram.com/jack_kornfield
πͺ· Instagram: twitter.com/JackKornfield
"Life is a process of expansion and contraction. We breathe, and as we sit in meditation you notice there are long and short breaths, cool, fast, deeper ones and shallow ones. If you let it breath itself it has all these rhythms of the body opening and closing all the time. Then you pay attention to sensations in the body. At first it feels like tension, pain, hot, or cold, but the more deeply you listen with your inner-awareness, that which we call pain, tension, hot, or cold, becomes pulsing, throbbing, needles, pinpricks, swirling movement. The more deeply we feel, the more our body shows itself to be a river of sensation." β Jack Kornfield
π§β¨ From #HeartWisdom episode 197: Cycles of Change
jackkornfield.com/heart-wisdom-ep-197-cycles-of-change
In this episode, Jack mindfully elucidates:
β The Dalai Lamaβs view on the Big Bang Theory
β How when we open deeply to our feelings, we recognize the body as a flowing river of sensation
β The Buddhaβs βEight Worldly Windsβ and using mindfulness and Right Effort to navigate lifeβs cycles of expansion and contraction
β Ram Dass, Be Here Now, and the βrollercoaster of highs and lowsβ of spiritual practice
β Finding freedom in the still-point amidst the cycles of change
β Trusting ourselves and the universe enough to let go into the mystery
π Grab an All-Access Plan for Jackβs growing library of online courses at jackkornfield.com/all-access-pass
More ways to connect with Jack:
πͺ· Website: jackkornfield.com
πͺ· Facebook: facebook.com/jkornfield
πͺ· Instagram: instagram.com/jack_kornfield
πͺ· Instagram: twitter.com/JackKornfield
