Exploring how to let go of victim consciousness and awaken inner resilience, Jack shares how to rest in awareness and live from the trusting heart.

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In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack mindfully explores:

Liberation, resilience, and the Trusting Heart
The physical nature of time within the infinite nature of awareness
Change, aging, and the weirdness of looking in the mirror
Meditation and working with the drama that arises
Remembering who we truly are, no matter how lost we get
Moving past victim consciousness, shame, and blame
Dropping our negative stories and starting to live with nobility
How we are so much more than our suffering
How to stop being loyal to our stories about ourselves and the world
Navigating these "latter day degenerate times with cherry blossoms everywhere”
The goal of practice as keeping our beginners mind
Letting go of fear and opening to adventure
Not confusing no-self with low-self esteem
"No self, no problem"
The strength, aliveness, and fullness of true emptiness
The Dharma of a zoo in a hurricane
The Trusting Heart as natural as the Tao, as resilient as water, and as forgiving as the earth
The resiliency, compassion, and intuition of the Witness
Recognizing how good you're actually doing

"When we become still, when we're not trying to be something, when we're in the moments of the trusting heart—what's left is not imitation or artificial, it is as natural as the Tao, as resilient and flexible as water, and as forgiving as the earth." – Jack Kornfield

This Dharma Talk was recorded at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and originally published on DharmaSeed.

“Is this who you really are—the victim, the abandoned one, the lonely one? Is that really who you are? If you speak it out loud, 'I'm the victim,' it gets embarrassing because something in there can't say it very long. Over time we've become really loyal to this story, but actually, something in us knows that it's not the whole game. There comes tremendous freedom when we begin to experience this." – Jack Kornfield

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. Mahasi Sayadaw. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies.

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"There is a resiliency in us as human beings which becomes trustworthy when we let go of the small sense of self and become the spacious, open, witness to all things." – Jack Kornfield

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Ep. 288 – The Trusting Heart: Letting Go of Victimhood, Awakening Resilience

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield