Jack Kornfield
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Sep 11, 2026
Dan HarrisHOST
Yeah.
Neal BrennanGUEST
You can only have Jack Kornfield on here so many times.
Dan HarrisHOST
[laughs]
Neal BrennanGUEST
Okay? So I know whereof I speak.
Dave DelaneyHOST
And he also co-founded the Insight Meditation Society.
Dave DelaneyHOST
The others were Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield.
Dave DelaneyHOST
And, you know, Tibet and Nepal serve as historic heartlands of meditation, preserving ancient Himalayan Buddhist and Hindu traditions while providing sacred high altitude sanctuaries that have shaped global mindfulness practices for centuries.
Dave DelaneyHOST
Some of these very places where Joseph Goldstein spent time studying and learning these practices are there in Tibet and Nepal.
Tom WaltersHOST
"This peace pilgrimage is an act of love and liberation that reminds us, as it did in 1964, to rediscover what we love, what matters, and to offer this love for the good of the world." Valerie Brown, Dharma teacher, Plum Village.
Tom WaltersHOST
"They are all walking for us." Jack Kornfield, American Vipassana teacher, psychologist, and author.
Tom WaltersHOST
And lastly, "What the world needs now is an influx of peace to impede the three poisons that MLK once named as militarism, poverty, and racism.
Tom WaltersHOST
These monks, by their mere presence, answer the bodhisattva's call to liberate all beings from suffering." Vamalasara, author and senior teacher in the Triratna Buddhist Community.
Cynthia WinwardHOST
Presence actually alleviates some of those existential fears, right, that I've been talking about in this episode.
Cynthia WinwardHOST
And once again, I don't know, is this the second or third time I'm going to use that Jack Kornfield line of bowing to the present reality? And he says, bowing doesn't mean liking what's happening, right? It doesn't mean giving it up.
Cynthia WinwardHOST
It means acknowledging what is before trying to make it something else.
Cynthia WinwardHOST
It is the difference between fighting the moment and meeting it.
Susan HinckleyHOST
It all is kind of tied together.
Susan HinckleyHOST
To work.
Susan HinckleyHOST
No, I think that obviously this is, again, not just a Latter-day Saint problem because people like Jack Kornfield feel like they have to be teaching about it, right? Right.
Susan HinckleyHOST
So this is a human problem.
Jonathan FoustHOST
And so when you explore equanimity, this quality of allowing steadiness, it's all about how you're relating to what's happening.
Jonathan FoustHOST
As Ajahn Chah, the Jack Kornfield's teacher, considered a real meditation master, would say when he would sit with people in his community who were practicing, when they would be talking about their suffering, he would say, you have rope burn.
Jonathan FoustHOST
You're hanging on to the rope.
Jonathan FoustHOST
Let go of the rope.
Joah McGeeHOST
And so when you mentioned that your own insights were derived from experience-based intensive 10-day courses, at that time, get into much later your varied influences and travels and where they went, but at that time, these were 10-day courses that were run by Jack or was it Joseph and Sharon and... um, and, uh, and others that were in that kind of lineage or what, what was, what were these courses you were referring to that, uh, where you got your first taste of this?
Amma ThanasantiGUEST
So Jack Kornfield was the first teacher for my first 10 day retreat at
Joah McGeeHOST
IMS.
Amma ThanasantiGUEST
No, it was in Canada.
Stephanie Michelle SwigertHOST
I'm Stephanie Michelle Swigert, a licensed and practicing school-based speech language pathologist out in Los Angeles, California.
Stephanie Michelle SwigertHOST
And I'm also certified as a teacher of mindfulness meditation from a two-year program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brock here in Los Angeles.
Stephanie Michelle SwigertHOST
If you're joining me this morning while you're driving to a school site, or maybe you're walking into a clinic or you're just sitting in traffic or maybe even those moments where you're hiding in your car before an IEP meeting, I just want to let you know I am so glad you are here.
Stephanie Michelle SwigertHOST
So fill up your tea, fill up your coffee if you're nearby one of those coffee stations because I have a great episode for you guys today.
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Stephanie Michelle SwigertHOST
I, it's been a very wonderful experience, but here's the thing.
Stephanie Michelle SwigertHOST
I think emotions work the exact same way.
Stephanie Michelle SwigertHOST
And in the mindfulness world and in the the training that I've had, the teacher that I've had, Jack Kornfield, he talks about, you know, riding the waves of emotions.
Stephanie Michelle SwigertHOST
Some emotions are these tiny little ripples.
Cecily MakHOST
effective So many problems with that person that are not us.
Cecily MakHOST
So I guess speaking of great teachers, I know we both share a lot of appreciation for Jack Kornfield.
Cecily MakHOST
You know, his invitation around just bringing mindfulness and practice into day-to-day life and thoughtfulness around, yes, and then there's still laundry, you know, and everything else has been so poignant, particularly in North America in the last 50 years or so.
Cecily MakHOST
And One thing that he has said to me several times is that awareness is actually most of the work.
Rick RubinGUEST
That's one example of a ritual.
Rick RubinGUEST
I'll tell you another-- a different kind of ritual that was one of the teachers who I love is Jack Kornfield, who's a Buddhist scholar, and he talks about doing work with gang members and how communication is very difficult for them, both in terms of being able to share how they feel, but even wanting to open up and speak at all.
Rick RubinGUEST
And he finds that something, a ritual as simple as lighting a candle in the room changes the energy of the room.
Rick RubinGUEST
When the people sitting around the table, if you're sitting around a table with a group of people and there's, uh, some sort of a anxiety or energy, if you light a candle and everyone sees you light the candle and everyone can see that the candle is burning on the table It changes the whole energy of the conversation.
Sharon SalzbergHOST
Yeah, yeah.
George MumfordGUEST
I wasn't looking at it like an intellectual and saying that this is gonna do-- You're, you're doing this just like having a conversation with Jack Kornfield.
George MumfordGUEST
When he said to me one day, he said, "Man, you know, you, you, you brought, uh, the practice to a competition in a way no one has done before."
Sharon SalzbergHOST
Yeah.
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