The Most Basic Truths: Gateways to Freedom Dharma Talk - Jack Kornfield

[@barbaraburton716]

Jack. Whenever I listen to your reflections my heart weeps for the privilege of being in your presence despite residing in a small rural market town in the U.K. So many of my teachers have passed without my being able to thank them during their lifetimes. I must not let this chance to thank you pass - being of the same age & ever mindful of 'change'. The teachings are so precious and accord with my own heart - distance is indeed no hindrance to gratitude.

[@erikasmith946]

That was beautifully stated. I feel the same way, all the way out here in California. He is a very precious human being on this planet

[@shaneross64]

I agree every time I listen to Jack I feel the peace I'm supposed to.

[@orahzamir3562]

Ate we born into reality or are we born into a destructive culture that can be replaced?

[@moirahyde750]

Me too. 🙏

[@tiffanimuldoon7610]

@@erikasmith946 Every human being is precious. Even the ones you would call evil. Even the crooked politicians. We are all of equal worth - no one more important that the other.

[@annawolfe2706]

so wonderful & comforting to find you on KZbin!!! Thank you so much. I spoke to you twice and you signed my book and I told you about the Kwan Yin I saw in Kansas City in 1976. I was able to whisper "O Nobly Born" and the rest of the verse into my brother's ear when he passed and I loved so much the story about the man who was talking to his brother after he died. So many blessings to you Jack. from Anna, Zoe's daughter. "O Nobly Born, listen undistractedly. May you be led by (Deity) may the Divine Mother, the faithful (Mother) be thy rearguard, may you be led safely across the dangerous ambush of the bardo, and may you be placed in the state of the all perfect Buddha."

[@isaacpaulsen1158]

Eastern philosophy makes sense to me but when I don't listen for awhile I lose it, and it makes perfect sense when I listen to it again. I am amazed how you have stayed consistent with the power behind your teaching over the years.

[@andrew87044]

QpZq

[@lindaclark4660]

Thank you dearest Jack. I always remember being with Thay and the reminder that Happiness is available; help yourself to it! After I lost my leg in a near-fatal accident I was speaking with Steven Levine who said, “you were ready for this” I carry this understanding into each day that I am alive and living Peace, Love, Compassion.

[@meredithshore6288]

Thankyou for your comment here one year ago (,I note.) It has caused tears to run from my eyes . I live with chronic pain, increasing, so that simple daily pleasures like walking, gardening are becoming off limits.I realise that I need to internalise the teachings much more deeply. However I am intrigued by Levine's comment to you that you were "ready" for this ....why "ready"......to be tested? to suffer?. I'm aware of the concept of God testing us in Christian thought, of the value of suffering as that which strengthens . I'm not really familiar with it in Buddhist thought. I have thought Buddhism presented a way out of suffering? Yours respectfully

[@johncarter1150]

Thank you for leaving the comments section open... allowing us to return our deeply felt apprecion for your wisdom and the example of a life well lived. Long live Jack Kornfield!

[@rojocello]

Thankyou for your teachings. Jack, your voice & words always feel soothing to my heart. I appreciate you

[@globalesklima5548]

When you gave the reflection on 'nothingness' and asked us to look into that painful spot of yourselfes 'my heart cracked' and I cried for the first time since my uncle died suddenly a few weeks ago. Thank you!

[@anylorry]

Incredibly beautiful and meaningful teachings Thank Yo

[@susanwale8887]

Dear Jack, your teachings are so profound and beautiful. Thank you so much 😊🙏🏻🦋🌷

[@deesticco1719]

Greatest company here, Jack! Thank you! 🙏🏼

[@8999jude]

Beautiful Jack! Thank you . I will make Art aBout it all. Blessings to all who are able to listen freely without looking over your shoulder for the fascists who freely roam in Moscow and Hungary etc. I miss Ram Dass too.

[@truenatureblog]

Ditto everything you’ve said 🙏

[@stevenbelzer9768]

JACK “ Indeed , indeed , it is just so “ ThANK YOU Venerable Jack I had the privilege of attending your 3 day retreat on Maui with Trudy and Ran Dass Recently I discovered Western Pure Land I love your Dharma talks and think if you as “ the Mister Rogers of Dharma teaching ☺️ “ forgiveness is giving up all hope , of having a different past “ or so the story is told Sons and daughters m Remember Who you ARE” Thank you Jack , it is just so , that’s how it works .”❤

[@alejandrarodriguez1719]

Thank you Jack🌷

[@stevebelzer4758]

I loved being with you and Trudy on Maui

[@thomassteidley4434]

You have made a big difference in my life.

[@jylclayton6403]

Thank you Jack ❤️🙏🏼

[@Jaaaackjack]

Absolutely beautiful - thank you so much Jack!!!!

[@susansacco7583]

Thank you so much! It’s the opposite of dissociation 💕

[@joanelderweller1]

“Teach yourself peace. Pass it on.” Thank you Jack for bringing peace to my day. I will pass it on!

[@dianneschmid8129]

Thank u Jack ❤my heart is grateful for sharing ur beauty and divine grace 🕊🍀🍀🍀🙏May we follow the truth ☀️☀️☀️

[@lmansur1000]

I love you Jack Kornfield and so much appreciate what you do!

[@wayofspinoza2471]

Thank you for your wisdom. I am a teacher of Spinoza's and Gurdjieff's teachings. I have shared your videos, because they compliment the work that I do.

[@suedonn7996]

Thank you Jack for these sweet reminders. It always blesses my day.

[@markcutsinger7843]

Thank You.

[@amber40494]

Such a beautiful teaching, i feel so content listening to Jack. Thank you jack

[@michellenatusch1235]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@mariongroves2588]

Oh timeless freedom.... sounds wonderful.... consciousness-- clinging... wanting.... fearing.... feeling.....

[@LaetareIerusalem]

My heart opened, transformed: there was something like in my heart and mind thinking no this may not be, why being born at all, installing separation. Somehow the heart healed while listening and opening up. Somehow heart hold death and live both as one. Death was no longer a reason not to be born. Balance, peace. A deep acceptance of the conditioned existence, live. Knowing the passing away, seeing it in its place, something was brought in line inside me. Like a fracture recomposed better than before. Somebody had told me that I had to be sad because of pain. Somebody shamed me for being happy while there was others in pain. Somebody shamed me for having needs. Somebody blamed me for being ill. I say : i am alive. I am in love. I am in peace. Yes, I am at home. Thank you, Sir, for this sharing leading me into reality.

[@charlesscott2200]

Thank you for this, Jack! Very needed tonight.

[@hikingdawn8640]

Sending it all right back to you and your beloved.💕🦋

[@VideographerExperience]

I stood outside in *extremely dark skies* watching the lunar eclipse grow total for hours upon hours, above the treeline. Was a beautiful show of nature, the colours of our *sunset/sunrise ring* cast upon the *face of Luna was stellar* that night.

[@appleknocker56]

Thank you for these teachings as many times (heart hurt) wanted to keep it closed 😢 but if do not love can’t come in or go out. Ty for helping us stay in only moment we have (this one)!

[@fingerprint5511]

Jack, thank you for your offerings, you are literally helping people stay alive and give hope that we can be liberated from the incessant mind and sensations and brain wiring that we think is who we are. Blessings 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏻

[@kungatsondru7062]

Thanks, Jack. I wonder if the crazy long letters I wrote to IMS from the Fremont County jail seeking refuge ever got delivered. I doubt it. But your words always help, if only for a moment. _/\_ There'd be no room for us. :) wish I had the poem about insomina you read on retreat. Haven't had rest from sleep in years. ✌️

[@sabrinainlove]

incredible. thank you thank you thank you. I'll be having this video on repeat

[@marg2080]

♥️♥️♥️ thank you for you! I also read some of your books! Very helpful and profound! Thank you so so much 🙏! Greetings from Germany!

[@amber40494]

We are the chain of being--such happiness

[@dickyboyryw]

I only found this guy a couple of weeks ago. Boy. I'm pleased I did. He's one of the great teachers. So called. But he is. A true Butsu. As we say in Soto Zen*

[@djembeschulemuenchen]

Pure Wisdom and support to come back to essential of l life, thank you Jack!

[@ohmsanti7914]

I love you Jack

[@Iseeyoumiau]

Gracias 🙏🏼

[@infinitelogicmachine8587]

49:34 I must love feeling nothing in what is pretty close to a virtual reality, because my past actions did that to me

[@billgoedecke2265]

That is a profound presentation - thank you very much. My concern is about what seems to be coming in regards to the changing climate and that there is the possibility of societal disruption due to water shortages in the SW US. Also that food shortages may begin to occur in the US and the world given all the climate change impacts and other things like the war in the Ukraine. Larger scale changes could come about due to the destabilization of massive carbon stores in the Arctic regions and the continued destruction of carbon sinks like the Amazon rainforests. So what this means is that there may not be a continued life; no sense of the continuation of generation to generation as our species may no longer continue as a species. Climate change may mean that we won’t have water to drink and food to eat in a society that is used to having everything. There may not be a sense of shared suffering where we pull together but more of a pulling away from each other. But still Jack’s talk gives me light and speaks to the possibility of realization within this suffering. I will listen to it again.

[@megfitch8117]

This created peace in my heart. I loved it.❤️

[@newpilgrim]

Many, many thanks📿🙏

[@eamonnocarroll5866]

You have made great sense to me Thanks

[@irenamangone]

Thank you so much for this lesson bless uou

[@juliablatter2423]

Dear Jack, thank you!

[@christianhaecker5926]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🐇💫

[@KnottyToys]

Thank you ✨💜

[@PabloVestory]

Thank you so much🙏

[@ToddSloanIAAN]

Well I was able to find you and subscribe Jack/!

[@lavadajunerobertsroberts7772]

Can you tell me which episode you were recalling about the man who visited and was presented with a show of fireflies in the field Tyson a moment of joy!

[@carmela6834]

Please give info on how to find the poem. Thank you

[@bettinadelsesto9088]

Your dhama talks a real and comforting .who would I call…? I have tried several to no avail

[@juliacastellazzi485]

🙏💞🌏🌍🌎🕊🌱

[@Thegratefuldad44]

Thank you Jack! 🙏

[@berniebarclay2183]

Thank you.

[@describer99]

My father passed in 2006. Throughout my childhood he was a heavy smoker until he had a heart attack in 1997. In the last few years every evening I get this smell of smoke out of nowhere. I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. Then one day I just started saying hi daddy every time I smell the smoke and as soon as I say that the smoke smell fades.

[@michaelbassolino]

Thank you.

[@amherst88]

It is the truth that liberates and not your efforts to be free . . .

[@judithgoodwin8013]

Dear Mr. Kornfield........ I simply had to tell you that one day I simply stumbled across to you here, I was a bit of a mess that day. I sat in a car and listened to you on my iPad and it was quite a long video and the longer it went on the calmer I got. There was something simply about looking at you listening to your voice and your words that brought such peace to me........ tomorrow morning some thing may or may not happen. If it doesn’t happen it’s going to causes me stress I truly don’t need but after listening to you speak and you are dressed part of what I may or may not be dealing with come tomorrow night I realized that it didn’t matter because change would be OK and I needed to have faith that everything happens for a reason. This is my third video of yours and I am continuing to always hope to find another one because I don’t know of anyone I have ever listen to that good Karma me the way that your videos too and your words and your voice… Blessings on your head…

[@stevebelzer4758]

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a different past -lol

[@jadsoj]

It's a blessing hearing your teachings

[@guntherrobbert4406]

Danke, Jack

[@eisteachbhinn]

Jack, thank you dear one for releasing your words to meet my inner voice. This was so joyfully and deeply received this morning ~ with love and gratitude 🌸💖🙏🏻

[@allcapsbeats]

That's exactly it. Well said. Jack's words meet my inner voice as well.

[@anne-katrinfischer-braun3013]

Thank you , Jack, for giving me peace and inspiration ! I try to listen to your talks and meditations every day. Thank you!

[@hoaivan4027]

NAMO AMIATABHA 🙏🙏🙏💜💜💜

[@debmc50]

Thank you, Jack. I needed that! It's a joy to see and hear you again.

[@carmel24011983]

I just want to say, Jack, THANK YOU so very much for sharing your insights, wisdom and magical words. I find my self day dreaming while listening to you, visualizing your words in to images. After 15 min, while listening, you discribed our microbiom in the most beautiful way I have ever herd. This touched me deeply, with tears in my eyes, since I am writing a seminar these days about Plant Microbiom and the special interactions between these two sides. Through biology I gain insight, thank you for speaking the language of nature, your words came in deep. And your meditations are my favorite as well - thank you!! I love your chanel!

[@kimwolfe345]

Thank you

[@abysmal660]

Thank you so much for this teaching.

[@MarielShawnaMarquez]

Thank you

[@stevebelzer4758]

Jack - I attended a retreat on Maui with you Trudy and Ram Das . I want you to know that o love you - and appreciate so much your teaching ability and story telling ability and your voice, and humor . You are the Mister Rogers and Mark Twain under the wide sky, beneath the Bhodi tree

[@freeMinder]

❤

[@bodhitsal7638]

💛

[@annetucker9486]

I love your gentle wisdom. It does my heart good. Bless you.

[@ericwitte53]

so w♡nderful, again ...

[@pennybenda137]

Thank you, Jack. I'm listening o New Year's Eve and it's perfect.

[@Plaincitizenjane]

A precious gift - the truth, the light and the way. We are blessed.

[@JFernandesSC]

Thank you Jack for teachings and conscious vision about us and our time

[@ME-tw7fq]

My love to all. Thank you ...

[@knlgetter]

Thank you 😊

[@steevo211]

In Knowing, We Miss That.. 17:25 The Magic. This Story, And When This Master Says; Who are we? Truly Enchanting. I suppose we decide if we, like waiting to explain about Santa to a child, teach them quickly the harshness of our reality, or let them live as much magic as we can as long as possible. I choose the latter. 🔮 In this way, we can also give it back to ourselves. 🔮🙏🔮🙏🔮🙏🔮🙏🔮🙏🔮

[@steevo211]

This Talk Is So Beautiful, It Almost Had Me In Tears. It's incredible with what we are going through that there can still be so much excitement finding a teaching that connects. The story of the Rabbi who says we place the teachings on our heart, and the student says don't we place them in our heart, and Rabbi says; No, God/ the Divine perhaps, assists with that, our job is to study the scriptures and place them on our hearts, for one day, when it breaks they fall in. This is the same as strengthening our practice consistently for the Storm, when painful emotions arise, we embrace them and take care of them, so when the time comes we can withstand the real Storm. Teachers Do Get More Beautiful With Age. Sadhu 💛

[@gwenwade6059]

Thank you Jack. You fill my soul. I truly love you. Such beautiful talks with you.

[@_eddiecole]

Im Loving living truth when im loving living truth. But you seem like your more living loving truth jack. Thanks for your work, play, and service.

[@Annie-yd3xx]

Bless you dear Jack 🍀💜💙🕊️💐✨🌳⭐thank you thank you thank you xxx

[@RikkiQuay]

Thank you Jack. I love the poems you read. I love poetry and write poetry myself. I also have a KZbin channel where I voice Spiritual poetry and have the written words and music Thank you for all your lovely words of peace. ✨

[@auresobanski2354]

Great words ,thank you Jack

[@nehha23]

Soooo beautiful

[@simonbog9320]

Thank you, dear friend. May you be blessed

[@kathleencampbell9571]

Thankyou ~ I appreciate you

[@jacquelineellis7136]

Thank God I stumbled across this amazing man

[@digitalClay]

Beautiful embodied wisdom and compassion. Thank you 🙏

[@aaronpitsenbarger1531]

❤

[@IlluminatedFilms111]

love you jack!

[@juliablatter2423]

Thank you, dear Jack!

[@lilcarlehedenottosson1337]

Thank you from the bottom of my heart - rather: I am placing this talk on my heart...and I wait...

[@streamenterer2293]

Your legacy is in my heart. I am so happy to hear the dharma as you express it. So many of us are part of your legacy. And you are not gone yet. When you go, I will celebrate your peace in my practice. Jack Kornfield, I met Ajahn Chah when I was a child and he was in the states. I didn't know who he was. He told me the story of the squirrel. Hilarious man!! I think I love you both. Thank you so much.

[@j.d.thompson3505]

Trying to find this on 8 track. Love the way you teach.