Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield describes the Buddha's vow to awakening and how we too can set a daily intention to awaken.  NEW Meditation Series: Pause, Breathe, Be Here Now with Ram Dass, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, John Lockley, Ram Dev, Trudy Goodman, Lama Tsultrim Allione—FREE January 16 to 25. Sit in true peace, love, and tranquility. Join thousands of peopl...

Moving beyond our small sense of self, Jack Kornfield introduces us to the ways intention, love, and acceptance can transform us. Amidst our ever-changing lives, we can find the patterns which form from our hearts and realize the source of who we are. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhel...

Reflecting on impermanence, Jack Kornfield explains that despite our physical frailty our spirit can never truly die. Where can we go when we die? Jack Kornfield explores the recycling of energy, our limitlessness beyond death, and how death enables us to live more presently. NEW Meditation Series: Pause, Breathe, Be Here Now with Ram Dass, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joseph Golds...

Mindfully navigating death, we learn from Jack Kornfield how to appreciate the vulnerability of one's final moments on earth. Jack Kornfield describes the truth death pushes us to face and how keeping an awareness of the inevitable aids us in living fully while we can. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapis...

Jack Kornfield describes finding a light in the dark via Buddhist wisdom on forgiveness, transience, and a profound sense of freedom. Through ancient storytelling and dharmic conversation, Jack Kornfield helps us grasp forgiving ourselves and others, keeping a connection to our senses and instincts, and resting in our Buddha nature.  Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receiv...

Traversing the receptive energy of water, Jack Kornfield details the power of fluidity, serenity, and gentleness. This lecture was originally uploaded on DharmaSeed.org A spiritual journey is often quite gradual. It is not typical to one day wake up and have a deep relationship with God or become enlightened. That gradual deepening we feel as we tune into our practice is much like a body of water....

Through catalysts of compassion and acceptance, Jack Kornfield guides us into a life of lasting transformation. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom “We are a pattern, a process, that is never the same. In this process of our life, the patterns that continue for us flow...

Sharing the wisdom of beloved Buddhist teacher Ajahn Chah, Jack Kornfield describes experimenting with life and accepting things as they are. This Dharma Talk from Jack Kornfield was originally published on DharmaSeed.org "What he was pointing to was that we can see with great honesty our circumstance, with great compassion, and in the middle of it laugh. This too is a part of our humanity...there...

Leaning into the qualities of an awakened heart, Jack Kornfield teaches us the perfection of truthfulness and how it will set us free. 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 society that does not promote the truth among its citizens, government, or economy, we have to...

Gather around for story time as Jack Kornfield offers a dharma talk centered around the Mahāparinibbāṇa Sutta, which contains the teachings from the last year of the Buddha’s life. This dharma talk was originally live-streamed by  Spirit Rock  on 8/22/22 Find more teaching from Jack Kornfield at jackkornfield.com . “Because it’s the shaking of the foundation of all the ground that we sta...

Proceeding with the practice in daily life series, Jack Kornfield plunges into right concentration and mindful breathing. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom  "Concentration isn't a forcing of your mind on the breath or on the pain, the pleasant sensation or on the...

Continuing his survey of the Eightfold path, Jack Kornfield teaches listeners about Right Effort and how we can apply ourselves in spiritual practice. “In the end, you have to let go. No matter how much effort you make and where it takes you, it doesn't take you all the way. Because it is not your effort that makes you free, but your discovery of what's true about yourself and life.” – Jack Kornfi...

Jack Kornfield delves into Right Livelihood, one of the key practices on the Eightfold Path that can help us find joy in our occupation. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/beherenow "Find something, and really give yourself to it. That is a happiness." – Jack Kornfield This talk from...

Exploring Right Action and the Five Precepts, Jack offers modern Buddhist insight on ahimsa, virtue, happiness, drugs, sex, and samadhi. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom Continuing a series of talks illuminating the Noble Eightfold Path, Jack sheds light on a prominent...

Jack Kornfield continues his series of talks on practice in daily life by focusing on uprightness of heart, Right Speech, and how we can learn to let our words come more directly from our heart. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/beherenow “What Right Speech does, it asks us a questi...

In this second part of his 'Practice in Daily Life' series, Jack Kornfield leads a lecture on intention and the ways it can determine our karma. 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 from  Jack Kornfield  was originally published on  DharmaS...

In this dharma talk from 1985, Jack Kornfield speaks to the heart of meditation by posing a series of frequently asked questions about bringing our spiritual practice into daily life. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom  Support podcasts like this through the Be He...

There is never a bad time to open ourselves to the spirit of the holidays! Reflecting on the 'season of generosity', Jack shares holiday Dharma stories on quieting the mind and opening the heart. 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 Dharma talk stemming fro...

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on abortion, Jack Kornfield explores the theme of mindful respect and how we can all listen to each other with loving 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  This dharma talk was originally live-streamed by S...

Jack Kornfield guides a “Here and Now” meditation focusing on connecting to the present moment, and receiving the breath and waves of experience with loving 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  This meditation was originally live-streamed by Spirit Rock...

Jack Kornfield offers spiritual advice on the path of parenting, shedding light on engaging the mystery with qualities of consciousness, mindfulness, and 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  In this Dharma Talk stemming from the Spirit Rock Meditation Center...

Jack Kornfield offers wisdom on awakening in the midst of life, sharing insight on navigating life's joys and sorrows with a fearless heart. In this Dharma Talk stemming from January 4th, 1991, Jack Kornfield speaks to the process of awakening in the midst of life. Exploring the cycle of return, life's 10,000 joys and sorrows, and what role time and the present moment play in relation to Bodhisatt...

This week on Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield lectures on false gurus, cults, and finding true teachers along our spiritual path. 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 dharma talk from Joseph was originally published on Dharma Seed   “We have this amazing capa...

In this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield blesses us with a dharma talk on the most basic truths in Buddhism: Annica, Dukkha, and Anatta. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist:  betterhelp.com/heartwisdom  "As we become wise, we step back and see the mystery of it instead of how it is supp...

This time on Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield reveals how Buddhist principles have the capacity to bring us happiness and joy. Explore the intersection of Buddhism & Bhakti with Be Here Now Network teachers and guests at the inaugural Love Serve Remember Summer Mountain Retreat August 25th – 29th in Boone, NC: https://www.ramdass.org/event/lsrf-summer-immersion-mountain-retreat/ “We can reawaken t...