Ep. 258 – Enlightenment as Intimacy: Where We're Going is Here

Speaking to progressing on the spiritual path, Jack explores enlightenment as true intimacy, and shares how: where we’re going is actually here.

“Where we’re going is here, and what we’re after doesn’t exist in time.” – Jack Kornfield

In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:

• Our idealistic/romantic notions of the spiritual path
• Consciousness, impermanence, and working with human emotions
• Wisdom stories of Ajahn Chah, Jack’s accomplished Thai meditation teacher
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the legend of building a Spiritual Amusement Park
• Progress and patience along the spiritual path
• Enlightenment as intimacy with all things
• A guided meditation practice reflecting on life, death, and good deeds
• Transforming the the world with one small act of kindness at a time
• Honoring our own beauty and goodness
• How compassion is characterized by true intimacy
• Recognizing and coming to our spiritual maturity
• Living like a Bodhisattva, and what it really means to ‘save all beings’
• Alchemizing extreme suffering, trauma, and grief into compassion, forgiveness, and service

“Enlightenment is to be intimate with what’s here.” – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk from 1/3/1991 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on DharmaSeed.

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