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MORE LOVE, MORE COMPASSION, MORE JOY
Guest: Jack Kornfield Program 3267
Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 7/9/2008 Program Length: 1 Hour
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Program Description: The science of the inner training of mindfulness and attention to our own body shows us a different possibility of living with more compassion, more forgiveness, and more understanding. Kornfield gives an example of the benefits of mindfulness, "Mindfulness is a directed attention to what is actually here before we have all our judgments and ideas about what is right and wrong and what is good and bad. Mindfulness means paying attention and seeing things clearly without reaction. From there we can respond in wise ways rather than be caught in our habitual patterns." Kornfield shares with us how we all have an unlimited capacity for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom.
Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. is an internationally renowned meditation teacher and one of the leaders in introducing Buddhist practice and psychology to the West. After graduating in Asian studies from Dartmouth College, he joined the Peace Corps and later trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India. Kornfield is a cofounder of Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and of the Spirit Rock Center in northern California. A husband, father and activist, he also holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and regularly gives seminars to mental health professionals. His books include A Path With Heart (Bantam 1993), The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace (Bantam 2008), and The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology (Bantam 2008). To learn more about the work of Jack Kornfield go to www.jackkornfield.org
Topics explored in this dialogue:
What is mindfulness
How some healthcare professionals understand that life and health is more than prescribing medications for problems
How Buddhist psychology reconnects us with our inner aliveness, beauty, and authenticity
How to cultivate forgiveness
What are the two kinds of suffering and why do we attach ourselves to them
Why you need mentors
How nature helps us to heal
Why intention is a key to moving us past difficulties
