Jack Kornfield on Clouds of the Mind - Heart Wisdom Ep. 228

Going back to the basics, Jack explores how we can skillfully navigate our dynamic mood states by experiencing them as clouds of the mind.
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"Moods are actually kind of mysterious and quite impersonal. They're like the weather. It's been kind of cool this year, then we get our rainstorms, and the sun comes in between, and the wind comes and dies down, and we don't have any control over it whatsoever. It just comes. It's due to certain conditions." - Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack compassionately illuminates:
Experiencing moods as clouds or weather-arising and passing naturally from impersonal sets of conditions
The six flavors of experience in Buddhism
Finding the middle ground between acting on feelings and suppressing them
The "vipassana romance" and understanding the "siren call" of desire
Diffusing desire with humor, mindfulness, and noting
Moving past attachment and aversion by leaning into them
Techniques for overcoming doubt
Letting go and becoming more happy and more live
"The optimist wakes up and says, 'Good morning, God!' And the pessimist wakes up and says, 'Good God! Morning...' It's the same experience, but the mood somehow changes it." - Jack Kornfield
"One sits and practices, and let's these experiences come and fill us. We bow to them, name them, soften in the heart and say, 'Okay, show me your stuff, give me the whole thing.' And you know what happens after a while? If you make this spaciousness in the heart and that still point, at some point it ends. Because everything does. You say, 'Wow that was a big storm of desire, wasn't it?' And there you are, and there's this sense of freedom that comes that that's not who we are most fundamentally." - Jack Kornfield
The Dharma Talk from 4/1/1988 at was originally published on DharmaSeed.
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[@joncraig754]

We have never met, you have been my teacher for more than 20 years. I’m grateful for your free dharma recordings Jack. You da man :)

[@oliverseibert4005]

talk starts. at 5:25

[@JulieDawnSmith]

Precious

[@JulieDawnSmith]

Enjoying these talks I'd prefer it not all online That said As close as I get to remembrance ❤

[@correodeklau7]

Thank you, Ganesh!

[@EricaBassi99]

I really like how you talk in the intro

[@staceycoleman221]

PERFECT timing, indeed. 🙏 Thank you, Ganesh!

[@Sunny_Day1111]

Thank you, Jack. Love your talks/teachings ❤️🌻

[@Writer-Artist-Observer]

This was a lovely talk. ✨🍵🫖 Thank you 🥰🙏✨💞♾️💎✨

[@lindaclark4660]

Ganesh. Your voice is so soothing and yes I get it. ❤

[@noBodyuNope]

Thank you for a wonderful talk Jack! ❤️🙏🌹

[@martinevaneijk]

@ganesh i have that serendipity too, all the time ❤

[@chribjslaha]

5:23

[@Dondillilochevrolet]

Ty

[@partywkira]

Jesus Christ loves you

[@oliverseibert4005]

I wish you just didnt talk in the intro

[@selmo6376]

Wjy People laghs almost everything Jackson says??!!

[@jonassvik1580]

Same! Jesus they need to shut up. Who cares about them, they are s platform for others. Fukken have humility and know your place

[@TheUniverseMulti]

I love his intros.

[@malikaikinn1153]

This Jack Cornfield guy seems suspicious

[@glaight6362]

Take your teaching wherever you can find it. When you don't find it, move on.

[@malikaikinn1153]

@@glaight6362 I only mean to warn people to be cautious and inquisitive of what they hear

[@Writer-Artist-Observer]

😂😂😂 suspiciously tapped in to the higher truth of the universe, yes. A first class Observer of the Tao, yes. ✨👌😁

[@kareemkobeissi9645]

Yes Cornfield is his evil twin

[@kacicopolo9213]

Listen to your heart my friend💛