Ep. 331 – Meet the Moment Fully, Meet It as a Friend: Loving Awareness, Aging, and Connection with Sylvia Boorstein

About this episode

Jack Kornfield and Sylvia Boorstein explore how loving awareness helps us meet each moment as a friend, soften into aging and impermanence, and rediscover connection through simple acts of generosity and love. Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/heartwisdom and get on your way to being your best self. This week on Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield shares: • Meeting each moment fully and as a friend by relaxing the body, quieting reactivity, and bringing kindness to whatever arises • Sylvia’s honest and humorous reflections on aging, mortality, losing independence, and adapting to life in a senior living community • Transforming crankiness and loneliness • How small acts of generosity—sharing figs, holding a stranger’s hand, or simply noticing another person—can transform crankiness, fear, and loneliness • Bringing mindfulness and loving-kindness together, staying amazed by life’s impermanence, and recognizing love as our deepest response to being alive This episode was originally recorded for a special Spirit Rock Monday Night Meditation and Talk in July 2026 celebrating Sylvia Boorstein’s 90th Birthday. Watch the next one at S