Ep. 276 – Healing with Love: Hopeful Wisdom for Difficult Times

Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman join forces in an exploration of Buddha’s eternal wisdom: ‘hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed.’

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“We start to sense that who we are is not just limited by the events of the world, but that we’re connected to something vast, mysterious, and greater.” – Jack Kornfield

In Part 1 of this episode, Jack and Trudy mindfully explore:

• Loving Awareness and mindful response
• Seeing the world with the eyes of a Buddha
• Opening to that world with the heart of a Buddha
• How the art of meditation is actually the art of love
• The story of Maha Ghosananda, the Gandhi of Cambodia
• Buddha’s eternal wisdom: Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed
• Facing climate change, racism, warfare, refugees, injustice, and trauma
• Dealing with our cultural anxiety, and saving ourselves from despair
• Becoming the calm person on the boat who can show the way for all
• Becoming a Bodhisattva, setting the compass of your heart for compassion
• Standing up for what matters, and tending the world with beauty
• Shifting our practice from unconsciousness to loving awareness
• Suffusing mindfulness practice with tenderness and compassion
• How we are all the same size when facing the vulnerability of our mortality
• The Heart Sutra mantra: Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
• Finding wisdom and comfort in “falling apart”

“Spiritually, we are all the same size, because we all are facing the vulnerability of our mortality.” – Trudy Goodman

“In community, in family, in our lives, in joy and sorrow, in birth and death—we’re, given the responsibility to hold ourselves in a web of love.” – Jack Kornfield

Learn How to Thrive in Love: Buddhist Secrets to Transform Your Relationships with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman beginning Feb 17 – join anytime!

About Trudy Goodman:

Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats, engages in activism work, and teaches workshops worldwide and online. She is also the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian in the Netflix series, The Midnight Gospel. You can learn more about about Trudy's flourishing array of wonderful offerings at TrudyGoodman.com

This talk originally aired on the Voices of Esalen Podcast:

The Voices of Esalen Podcast showcases in-depth interviews with the dynamic teachers and thinkers who are part of Esalen Institute. Hosted by Sam Stern, a former Esalen student and current staff member, the podcasts have featured engaging conversations with authors Cheryl Strayed and Michael Pollan, innovators Stan Grof and Dr. Mark Hyman, teachers Byron Katie, Mark Coleman and Jean Houston, Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy, and many more. Learn more at Esalen.org/story/podcasts

About Jack Kornfield:

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, studying as. a monk under the Buddhist master Ven. Ajahn Chah, as well as the Ven. Mahas