Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Jack returns to explore the nature of Dharma as universal, immediate, timeless, beneficial, protective, and available to all. "The Dharma is universal, it's immediate, it's open-handed, it's to be experienced by each person for themselves directly, it's timeless. The truth of life is here to be discovered for any individual with eyes open to see." – Jack Kornfield In this episode, Jack mindfully n...

Getting vulnerable about the hungers which afflict our lives, Jack helps us into the nirvana beyond the illusion of incompleteness. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom “In Sanskrit or Pali the word is ‘Trishna,’ which means thirst, desire, wanting. It’s exaggeration, or...

In this lively episode, Jack dives into how mindfulness, awareness and intimacy help us engage with life more fully. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "Zen master Dōgen said that to be mindful, to be awake, to pay attention, is the same as intimacy—intimacy with your...

Navigating the body's river of sensations, Jack helps us into the still-point of freedom amidst life's cycles of change. "If our goal in spiritual practice is some state, some open state, it would be in spiritual life like buying already open flowers instead of buds, or like adopting an adult instead of a child. To awaken the heart of a Buddha requires us to find the deepest respect and compassion...

Illuminating the art of paying attention, Jack shares hilarious stories and mindful insights around how we can let go into the present. 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 learn the art of paying attention requires some practice, that we learn how to sit and steady...

In this Independence Day focused episode, Jack reflects on how we can foster true freedom and independence through using a spiritual rudder. "The Buddha, in the last bit of his life, said, 'When I'm gone, don't follow or place all of your reliance on elders or teachers, but rather follow the Dharma, the universal law, and know these things for yourself. Know the forces of grasping, hatred, and ign...

Hop in the Sauna with Jack Kornfield and Prince Ea, as they steep deeply into topics of spirituality, fear, meditation, compassion, and staying awake in the world. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "People say the world is going to hell in a hand-basket, but that's on...

Jack joins CEO of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Sam Altman, onstage with Soren Gordhamer at Wisdom 2.0 to talk artificial intelligence, spirituality, ethics, and the future of humanity. Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI and ChatGPT . Soren Gordhamer is the founder of Wisdom 2.0 . Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professio...

Plunging further into last week's topic, Jack offers vulnerable perspectives on how sexuality and relationships play into our life and practice. "If one wants to understand karma, or one wants to understand virtue, ethics, or morality—which are equally important and profound in developing a spiritual life—the way to do it is very simple: it's beginning to know, observe, feel, and understand what's...

Exploring the relationship between spirituality and sexuality, Jack offers reflections and perspectives on ways to dance with the sexual energy in our lives. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "In a way, sex is a mirror. How your sexuality goes in a particular day or w...

Directly following Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's death, Jack offers perspectives on the life and dharma of one of spirituality's most impactful and controversial figures. "Lama Govinda said that of all the young tulkus, of all the young incarnate lamas to leave Tibet, there was none as bright as Trungpa Rinpoche—bright in the sense of his field of his being and his energy. Lama Govinda, even at a poi...

Rewiring our brains around difficulties, emptiness, fear, and longing, Jack highlights how we can connect our practice with our deepest love. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "When you get afraid or things are difficult, fear is simply the signal that you're about to...

Mindfully retelling ancient Buddhist Dharma stories, Jack reflects on what it means to live with a wise heart. "For someone who wants to break free inside of the forces of ignorance, delusion, habit, and sleepwalking—you must really see that there's something greater than just getting through each day, and devote yourself in some fashion to it." – Jack Kornfield In this episode, Jack opens us to:...

In this vintage Dharma Talk, Jack illuminates Buddhism's Three Characteristics of Life: stress, non-self, and impermanence. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom   "Somehow we believe our concepts, that we'll be here forever, that our life is really going to go on an...

Jack returns with a cosmic Dharma Talk exploring expansion and contraction in relation to impermanence as the root of spiritual practice. "The law of change is the brown rice and vegetables of spiritual practice, it's the root of our direct experience of life." – Jack Kornfield  In this episode, Jack takes us on a cosmic journey through: The basic fundamentals of Dharma teachings on how to li...

This week, Jack joins Michael Krasny for a conversation diving into mindfulness, loneliness, compassion, gratitude, suffering, meditation, and the Dharma. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "With mindfulness you learn to live in the present. If you walk down the street...

Uncovering how to live with a peaceful heart, Jack maps the inner landscapes of meditation, and shares how we can use listening to find The Way. “A peaceful heart is not a withdrawal from life, but rather coming back into ourselves to remember the place that neither grasps nor judges and hates.” – Jack Kornfield In this episode, Jack mindfully explores: What it means to live with a peace...

Jack returns for an illuminating Dharma Talk exploring the deep human longing for the wedding of body and spirit. 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 invitation of spiritual life, of awareness or mindfulness—we could call it a sacred attention—is not to hurry up, f...

In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield connects with lifestyle expert Sarah Grynberg to talk about a life of greatness.  "Really, meditation is about deep listening. You sit and what needs to be understood will come if you sit quietly. It is like going into the forest and finding a little clearing and sitting down. If you're quiet for a while the animals, the birds, they all resume t...

Teaching us about breath work and presence, Jack Kornfield guides a mindfulness meditation and discusses the beauty of listening. "You are not the body, you are the mindful loving awareness that notices this body with kindness and care." – Jack Kornfield  In this episode Jack Kornfield offers us: A guided mindfulness meditation  Tools to relax and experience presence  Breathing tech...

Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joseph Goldstein explore the emergence of Western Buddhism and balancing faith with wisdom. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "In the Buddhist tradition it's said that one of the prayers one might make is: May I be born in circumstances...

In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield teaches us about fostering femininity in our dharma practice. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom In this episode Jack Kornfield discusses: The relationship of birth and death Loving deeply by opening our hearts , bodies,...

In this episode, Jack Kornfield helps us discover how the ocean of breath can lead to greater compassion for all. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "With the opening of breath comes a spaciousness or a healing quality which is that we can allow ourselves to hold in co...

By telling stories of the Buddha, Jack Kornfield directs us on the purpose of practice and the laws of Dharma. "What we repeatedly direct our mind to in this society is consumerism and materialism and addictions of different kinds. What we direct ourselves to, we get. For better or for worse." – Jack Kornfield This talk from Jack Kornfield 1/4/1994 was originally published on DharmaSeed . In this...

In simple, heartfelt presence, Jack Kornfield teaches us about coming into the dharma body. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "You can see it in your life. It's helpful to be aware when you drive, or if you paint or you do computer programming or you make love, or you...