Ep. 333 – You Can Trust Love Itself: Ram Dass and Loving Awareness

About this episode

Exploring love as a spiritual practice, Jack Kornfield shares how Ram Dass grew into a living field of love and how we can cultivate that same loving awareness within ourselves. This time on Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield explores: • Ram Dass becoming the loving presence people always imagined him to be • Krishna Das, Maharaj-ji, and the power of seeing others with the eyes of love • Why love is not merely something that happens to us • Cultivating lovingkindness through intentional spiritual practice • Sharon Salzberg’s discovery that metta practice was transforming her heart • Practicing lovingkindness for strangers in everyday life • Seeing the original innocence and Buddha nature within others • The Dalai Lama’s teaching on befriending the enemy • How love transforms into compassion, joy, and equanimity • Impermanence and the preciousness of what we love • Moving beyond judgment into loving awareness • Embracing the body, heart, and mind with kindness • Listening for what is asking for love “Ram Dass became love. He wasn’t just a teacher anymore. Whoever you were and whatever was brought to him, he would sit in a field of love and see you with the eyes of love.” –Jack Kornfiel