About this episode

Jack Kornfield and Sylvia Boorstein discuss how loving awareness can help us embrace aging and foster connection through acts of kindness.

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…

Topics covered

• loving awareness
• aging
• impermanence
• connection
• mindfulness
• generosity

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