Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
The Jack Kornfield Heart Wisdom hour celebrates Jack’s ability to mash up his long established Buddhist practices with many other mystical traditions, revealing the poignancy of life’s predicaments and the path to finding freedom from self-interest, self-judgment and unhappiness.
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Jack and the ‘Grandfather of Gratitude,’ Brother David Steindl-Rast, delve into sacred reflections on death, where Buddha meets Jesus, the power of compassion, the positive side of grief, and beyond.
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“The process of grieving that breaks this little heart, which closes itself in itself, ...
Fantastic Fungi's visionary director, Louie Schwartzberg, joins Jack to explore the profound connection between psychedelics and mindfulness.
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“You can’t separate psychedelics from life.” – Jack Kornfield
In this fresh conversation, Jack and Louie spelunk the depths ...
Inviting in calm, strength, and steadiness, Jack leads a guided meditation into the heart of mindful loving awareness.
This guided meditation was originally recorded on 2/19/2024 for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. Register to join Jack's next livestream at JackKornfield.com/events
"Feel the weight of your body, gravity, and how the earth completely supports you when you let go into your seat. You'r...
Exploring the great mystery of life and existence, Jack shares enlightening insights on the playful nature of wisdom.
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"The beautiful thing is, wisdom is gracious." – Jack Kornfield
Fresh from an adventure in Costa Rica, Jack offers wisdom on:
- Spelunking the great my...
Offering compassion for our human flaws, Jack relays how to stop being so loyal to our suffering, and helps uncover the heart of the Buddha living within each of us.
Learn to live beautifully with Jack Kornfield and Dr. Dan Siegel in their new online journey, Living Beautifully: Transformative Science and Mindfulness Practice to Cultivate a Wise Heart
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- Living the Divine Abode...
Shining light on the Divine Abodes, Jack shares how we can navigate the world from the goodness of our hearts.
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"Luminous, says the Buddha, is this heart and mind." – Jack Kornfield
In this episode, Jack mindfully explores:
- The Divine Abodes (Brahmaviharas) as qualit...
Jack shares miracle stories and personal lessons from Dipa Ma – the luminous, compassionate and unshakeable spiritual master.
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"You had a sense from this very sweet, mild-mannered old lady o...
Talking Kabir, breakups, LSD, and Ram Dass, Jack shares how we can unfurl from the suffering of our expectations in order to live the mystery.
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"Awareness has this quality of allowing change or openness to take place, because you're not trying to make it a certain way...
Going back to the basics, Jack explores how we can skillfully navigate our dynamic mood states by experiencing them as clouds of the mind.
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"Moods are actually kind of mysterious and quite impersonal. They're like the weather. It's been ...
Illuminating the subtle but crucial difference between codependence and compassion, Jack outlines how to set boundaries and live from our unique truth.
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"Codependence means being an accomplice, a kind of complicity with someone who's acting in a self-destructive w...
Sharing spiritual wisdom on meditation, abundance, intimacy, and the astral body, Jack helps us cultivate the courage to recognize truth.
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"In one important sense, meditation is an exercise in truth, an exercise in opening to what is tru...
Illuminating the deepening levels of spiritual practice, Jack explores how to let life breathe while setting your heart on gold.
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“What we’re doing in practice is feeling the actuality of how life is pulsing, moving, flowing and swirling, fast and slow, rhythmical...
Wrapping the world in the heart of loving kindness, Jack offers a meditation to help us into presence, relaxation, & loving awareness.
Jack originally shared this guided meditation for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. If you would like to join Jack online for his next livestream, register here.
"Living in loving kindness opens the doorway to happiness and joy." – Jack Kornfield
In this episode...
In this brand new Dharma Talk, Jack sings a redemption song inviting us to lay down our suffering and anger so we can open to the heart of compassion.
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"These teachings of redemption point to the wondrous possibility that the conflicts that plague the world can be...
In this lively session, Jack illuminates how we can begin to open the heart through the transformational power of self-acceptance.
"Acceptance is the ground out of which true insight and understanding comes. It's an essential aspect of our practice. If we don't accept some aspect of ourself—some feeling, some physical sense of ourself aspect, some mental sense of ourself—then how are we to learn about it if we condemn it? H...
In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack illuminates the law of karma and shares how we can overcome habits in order to live a life of awareness.
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"To live a life of awareness asks a lot of us—it asks that we know ourselves, know our feelings, and know our hearts." –...
In this New Years episode exploring how we can revolutionize our lives by becoming aware of our feelings, Jack talks clear seeing and gives instructions for an eating meditation.
"If you become aware of your feelings, they don't last very long. We feel like we're angry for a day, or sad for a week, or happy for a month, or grieving for a while—as if those feelings lasted that long. But if you look closely and you let yourse...
Bestselling author, Yung Pueblo, and reporter, Dan Harris, join Jack to dive into how to love without grasping, Ram Dass's humor at his own predicament, and how to meditate when you are freaking out.
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"The point of meditation practice isn't to withdraw from the wo...
In this new Dharma Talk, Jack explores how we can navigate the suffering of the world's conflicts with compassion, understanding, and peace.
This episode is from the Cloud Sangha Community Talk on Dec. 13, 2023. If you would like to join Cloud Sangha to steep in spiritual community, they are offering a 2-week free trial here.
"I think that we are afraid somehow that our own heart is not big enough to hold the ...
In this unique exploration of Dharma, Jack shares how we can transform our daily lives by looking into how the Buddha answered questions.
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"This talk on the way the Buddha answered questions is not to give you another talk on Buddhist history, but to connect us wi...
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