Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Sharing spiritual wisdom on meditation, abundance, intimacy, and the astral body, Jack helps us cultivate the courage to recognize truth. Want to learn how to follow the Buddha’s path to freedom in the modern world? Sign up for Jack’s new online course  Walking the Eightfold Path with Jack Kornfield  beginning March 18! "In one important sense, meditation is an exercise in truth, an exer...

Illuminating the deepening levels of spiritual practice, Jack explores how to let life breathe while setting your heart on gold. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom “What we’re doing in practice is feeling the actuality of how life is pulsing, moving, flowing and swirli...

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." –...

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. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "These teachings of redemption point to the wondrous possibility that the conflicts...

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 a...

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. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "To live a life of awareness asks a lot of us—it asks that we know ourselves, know our feel...

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...

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. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "The point of meditation practice...

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 hear...

In this unique exploration of Dharma, Jack shares how we can transform our daily lives by looking into how the Buddha answered questions. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "This talk on the way the Buddha answered questions is not to give you another talk on Buddhist...

In Jack's heartfelt final talk at Insight Meditation Society, he explores heart and mind, wholeness and emptiness, and how the only way to be free is to let go of it all. "When I was first studying Buddhism and meditating, even as it got a lot deeper, it was a clearing of the mind—mind becoming more silent, fewer thoughts, starting to see with a vision of clarity how things really arise, pass, and...

Illuminating the benefits of taking spiritual retreat, Jack highlights the importance of meeting our practice with great faith, great courage, and great questioning. Join Jack with Trudy Goodman, Krishna Das, Anne Lamott and more, live online from Maui in the virtual  Ram Dass Legacy Retreat: Love and Renewal  11/29 - 12/3! "It's not a question of practicing and losing weight, or getting...

Exploring the liberating step of Right Attitude, Jack illuminates how we can break free from our automatic habits by becoming fully conscious of them. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "There's a strength of heart that comes when we don't just follow our habit. It's a...

Connecting the Buddha's wisdom with the teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda's infamous Yaqui shaman, Jack explores how to become a spiritual warrior. Learn the Dynamic Art of Guided Meditation in this  Masterclass with Jack Kornfield ! Sign up for the on-demand version before Nov. 15 to take part in two live Q&A sessions with Jack! "There's a mysterious beauty that surrounds those ind...

In response to the conflicts in the world, Jack offers a harmonizing guided meditation inviting us into peace, sanctuary, and the heart of refuge. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "I breath in peace and breath out peace to all those who are amidst the troubles of thi...

In this powerful new Dharma Talk touching on current events, an emotional Jack offers a heart of refuge amidst the world's conflicts. "There's a liberation amidst birth and death, joy and sorrow, war and peace, that is beyond it all. This is the sacred openness of love and awareness itself.” – Jack Kornfield In this emotional episode, Jack touches into: The terrors of the ongoing wars in Gaza, Ukr...

Jack explores how meeting our lives with a directness and simplicity helps bring the mind, body, and heart into unity. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "The spirit of the practice is a unification of the mind with the body and the heart, bringing them all together in...

In this riveting episode, Jack shares hilarious personal stories illuminating lessons from his life as a forest monk in Thailand. "The spirt was you just did it, and you worked with whatever came up as your practice. Living the life of a monk meant taking what came to you and working with it, whether it was difficult or easy.” – Jack Kornfield  In this riveting episode, Jack dives into: What...

Illuminating the Way of the Bodhisattva, Jack shares wisdom from St. Teresa of Calcutta, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Ajahn Chah, and Sueng Sahn on walking the spiritual path. This vintage episode from April 10, 1977 at Camp Cedar Glen was originally published on  DharmaSeed . Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional t...

In this flowing question and answer session, Jack helps his students mindfully navigate topics like loneliness, intention setting, meditating with ADD, meeting our shame with nobility, and dealing with jerks. "The spiritual path is really step by step. If you think of it as long, you can get lost and overwhelmed. But if you realize that you're not going from here to there, you're going from there...

Executive Chairman of the Ford Motor Company, Bill Ford, joins Jack to discuss capitalism, Right Livelihood, and the next generation. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom “To be successful in business you have to have values, you have to stand by those values, and you ca...

In this hilarious episode, Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman, and Bonnie Duran, DrPH, share stories on becoming empowered to solve your own problems. Transform your life through Jack's Kornfield's most powerful stories in this  brand new 10-hour journey ! Live session begin on Sept 28th! “The Buddha's enlightenment solved the Buddha's problem, now you solve yours.” – Joseph Goldstein In this epis...

Reflecting on what it means to live in a wise society, Jack shares stories on how we can handle difficult topics – cancer, abortion, women's rights, prison, and war – with a mutual respect. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom “How much respect do you give to those you d...

Jack shares a guided meditation on relaxing into the ocean of air we find ourselves in when we open to the present moment. Transform your life through Jack's Kornfield's most powerful stories in this  brand new 10-hour journey  starting Sept 28th! “You become a connoisseur of breathing for this moment, attentive to this remarkable breathing in and out of the atmosphere, keeping you alive...

Illuminating the concept of mudita – sympathetic joy – Jack helps us cultivate authentic happiness for those around us, and leads a guided meditation on the topic. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "Spiritual joy is the innate capacity for the heart to take pleasure a...