Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
249 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe 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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Ep. 246 – The Simplicity of Goodness
July 09, 2024 19:44 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBJack Kornfield delves into the simplicity of goodness and virtue in a talk spanning Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Amma-ji, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Napoleon, and Rumi. Want fresh Jack teachings delivered to your inbox? Sign up for Jack’s newsletter for weekly free content from JackKornfield.com – guided meditations, Dharma Talks, articles, and more. “I believe within us, within the human heart and human consciousness, is an innate love of honesty and a joy in virtue, straightforwar...
Ep. 245 – Monastic Life Insights with Pema Chödrön and Ajahn Sumedho
July 05, 2024 04:13 - 1 hour - 85.4 MBTeaching a nature retreat amidst softly chirping birds and cooling rain, Jack, Pema Chödrön, and Ajahn Sumedho illuminate joyful insights of monastic life. This episode 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. "Mostly what draws people to monastic life in the healthiest and best sense is its joy." – Jack Kornfield In this special outdoor retreat, Jack, Pema Chödrön, and Ajahn Sumedho expl...
Ep. 244 – An Autobiography of Trauma with Peter A Levine, PhD
June 25, 2024 21:43 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBJack and trauma expert, Peter A Levine, PhD, map the path to healing through imagination, curiosity, somatic experiencing, and loving awareness. Want fresh Jack teachings delivered to your inbox? Join Jack's newsletter for weekly free content from JackKornfield.com – guided meditations, Dharma Talks, articles, and more! Sign up at JackKornfield.com/newsletter “Healing has to be coming together through the minute particulars in the body and in the story that’s actually our experien...
Ep. 243 – The Music of the Spheres
June 18, 2024 19:13 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBHarmonizing to the 'music of the spheres' & sharing gardening tips from Buddha, a blissful Jack unveils the possibility of sudden awakening. This episode 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. "You don't want to wait until you float out of your body when you die and look back and say, 'Wow, that was an amazing incarnation, wasn't it?' You actually want to have it now." – Jack Kornfield ...
Ep. 242 – Disentangling Your Illusions
June 12, 2024 19:27 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBRevealing how to disentangle your illusions and let go of old identities, Jack paves the way to the mystical present moment. Join Jack online Sat June 22 for The Awakened Heart: Mindfulness and Compassion Practices for Living a Wise and Free Life – a special live daylong retreat exploring lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and peace. Register here. “Part of the joy of selflessness is that as we become selfless much greater forces of what life is move through us.” – Jack Kornfield I...
Ep. 241 – The Paradox of Self and No-Self
June 04, 2024 02:34 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBExploring life as a flowing, dynamic process, Jack shares the jewel of Buddha's awakening by unraveling the paradox of self and no-self. This episode 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. "Each of those sets of words, 'self,' and 'no-self,' are concepts or ideas or words that we use in a very crude approximation of pointing to some mystery of this process of life that's neither self nor...
Ep. 240 – How to Unlock True Abundance
May 28, 2024 20:37 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBSharing the blueprint for how to unlock true abundance, Jack reveals the secrets of letting go of greed, embracing generosity, and appreciating simplicity in life. Learn the Dynamic Art of Interactive Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield in an online masterclass cohort this June! Join the journey. "Abundance isn't about how much you have, but how much you appreciate. – Jack Kornfield In this episode, Jack mindfully explores: How to let go of our greed and live in true abundance...
Ep. 239 – Heart As Big As the Sky
May 22, 2024 18:16 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBUnveiling how to grow your heart as big as the sky, Jack shares the spiritual antidote for aversion, negativity, and fear. This episode 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. "Let your heart be as big as your whole experience, like the sky." – Jack Kornfield In this episode, Jack mindfully explores: Overcoming aversion by "bringing it into your heart" rather than your rational mind To...
Ep. 238 – Freeing Yourself From Fear and Opinion
May 14, 2024 20:18 - 31 minutes - 29 MBIllustrating how to free yourself from fear and opinion, Jack reveals how to overcome suffering by cultivating a pure heart. This episode 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. "The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there." – Robert M. Pirsig In this episode, Jack skillfully illuminates: Skillful ways to free yourself from stuck views and opinions Ram Dass's ...
Ep. 237 – Discovering Peace Within Yourself
May 07, 2024 17:46 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBUncovering how to find joy and freedom in any situation, Jack shares the roadmap for discovering peace within yourself. Learn the Dynamic Art of Interactive Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield in this online masterclass cohort starting this June! Learn more and register at bit.ly/InteractiveCohort This episode 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. “Peace is the cessation of your stru...
Ep. 236 – Sacred Reflections with Brother David Steindl-Rast and Frank Ostaseski
April 30, 2024 20:37 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBJack 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. Stay up to date with Jack and his stream of free offerings by signing up for his email newsletter teachings at JackKornfield.com/newsletter “The process of grieving that breaks this little heart, which closes itself in itself, opens us to the heart that we all share, the one heart th...
Ep. 235 – From Psychedelics to Mindfulness with Louie Schwartzberg
April 24, 2024 17:50 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBFantastic Fungi's visionary director, Louie Schwartzberg, joins Jack to explore the profound connection between psychedelics and mindfulness. This episode 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. “You can’t separate psychedelics from life.” – Jack Kornfield In this fresh conversation, Jack and Louie spelunk the depths of: The connection between psychedelics and spirituality Psychedelic...
Ep. 234 – Guided Meditation: Mindful Loving Awareness
April 16, 2024 20:04 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBInviting 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're met by the strength and steadiness of the earth itself....
Ep. 233 – Wisdom is Playful
April 12, 2024 00:51 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBExploring the great mystery of life and existence, Jack shares enlightening insights on the playful nature of wisdom. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to recieve 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "The beautiful thing is, wisdom is gracious." – Jack Kornfield Fresh from an adventure in Costa Rica, Jack offers wisdom on: Spelunking the great mystery of life Wisdom as inherently gracious and playful...
Ep. 232 – Stop Being Loyal to Your Suffering
April 02, 2024 21:13 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBOffering 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 Abodes to uncover the heart of the Buddha within yourself How to liv...
Ep. 231 – The Divine Abodes: Navigating the World from the Goodness of our Hearts
March 26, 2024 06:21 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBShining light on the Divine Abodes, Jack shares how we can navigate the world from the goodness of our hearts. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to recieve 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "Luminous, says the Buddha, is this heart and mind." – Jack Kornfield In this episode, Jack mindfully explores: The Divine Abodes (Brahmaviharas) as qualities of the Awakened Heart Navigating the world from the ...
Ep. 230 – The Inspiration of Dipa Ma
March 20, 2024 04:30 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBJack shares miracle stories and personal lessons from Dipa Ma – the luminous, compassionate and unshakeable spiritual master. 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. The live version begins March 18! Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3T7Aafp "You had a sense from this very sweet, mild-mannered old lady of a kind of unshakable inner strength, an incredible sense of ...
Ep. 229 – Expectations
March 12, 2024 05:42 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBTalking Kabir, breakups, LSD, and Ram Dass, Jack shares how we can unfurl from the suffering of our expectations in order to live the mystery. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "Awareness has this quality of allowing change or openness to take place, because you're not trying to make it a certain way... you're observing it." – Jack Kornfield In this episo...
Ep. 228 – Clouds of the Mind
March 05, 2024 21:16 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBGoing back to the basics, Jack explores how we can skillfully navigate our dynamic mood states by experiencing them as clouds of the mind. 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! "Moods are actually kind of mysterious and quite impersonal. They're like the weather. It's been kind of cool this year, then we get our rainstorms, and the sun com...
Ep. 227 – Codependence and Compassion, What's the Difference?
February 27, 2024 22:49 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBIlluminating the subtle but crucial difference between codependence and compassion, Jack outlines how to set boundaries and live from our unique truth. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "Codependence means being an accomplice, a kind of complicity with someone who's acting in a self-destructive way, being dependent on their behavior, or supporting it someho...
Ep. 226 – The Courage to Recognize Truth
February 20, 2024 20:41 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBSharing 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 exercise in opening to what is true, to what is here in front of in the most direct and obvious ways....
Ep. 225 – Letting Life Breathe
February 13, 2024 20:35 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBIlluminating 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 swirling, fast and slow, rhythmically, within our own body, within our own direct experience.” – ...
Ep. 224 – Loving Kindness Guided Meditation
February 07, 2024 18:57 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBWrapping 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, Jack leads a guided meditation to help us: Enter into presenc...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 224 – Loving Kindness Guided Meditation
February 07, 2024 18:57 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBWrapping 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, Jack leads a guided meditation to help us: Enter into presenc...
Ep. 223 – Redemption Song
January 30, 2024 18:58 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBIn 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 that plague the world can be transformed by the nobility of heart." – Jack Kornfield In t...
Ep. 222 – Self-Acceptance and Opening the Heart
January 24, 2024 20:30 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBIn 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? How are we to discover it's nature? How are we to become fre...
Ep. 221 – A Life of Awareness
January 16, 2024 19:25 - 34 minutes - 32 MBIn 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 feelings, and know our hearts." – Jack Kornfield In this episode, Jack compassionately outline...
Ep. 220 – Awareness of Feelings, Mindfulness of Food
January 09, 2024 00:19 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBIn 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 yourself feel what's here and pay attention, feelings rarely last...
Ep. 219 – How to Meditate When You Are Freaking Out with Yung Pueblo and Dan Harris
January 03, 2024 20:24 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBBestselling 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 isn't to withdraw from the world or become a monastic, but it's the possibility to live and...
Ep. 218 – Caring for Each Other and Our World
December 27, 2023 19:49 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBIn 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 tears and suffering of the world." – Jack Kornfield In this fresh episo...
Ep. 217 – The Way Buddha Answered Questions
December 19, 2023 19:03 - 53 minutes - 49 MBIn 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 history, but to connect us with the ancient timeless endeavor of practice, of awakening, an...
Ep. 216 – Heart and Mind, Wholeness and Emptiness
December 13, 2023 22:46 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBIn 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 are truly ownerless. There's a kind of coolness to that vision, just like on a hot su...
Ep. 215 – Why Take Spiritual Retreat?
November 28, 2023 06:31 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBIlluminating 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 rid of our neurosis or figuring out our mother, father, husband, or wife trip; but it's really t...
Ep. 214 – Right Attitude
November 21, 2023 17:40 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBExploring 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 strengthening of heart that brings a sense of wellbeing or purity. Because we begin to tra...
Ep. 213 – Don Juan Meets Buddha: Becoming a Spiritual Warrior
November 15, 2023 01:25 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBConnecting 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 individuals who live their lives as warriors, as men or women of knowledge." – Jack Kornfield In t...
Ep. 212 – Heart of Refuge Guided Meditation
November 09, 2023 20:43 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBIn 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 this world—the conflicts, the refuges, the violence and the fear. I send you a peaceful breath...
Ep. 211 – Heart of Refuge
November 01, 2023 18:25 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBIn 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, Ukraine, Darfur How constant news media effects our emotions and wellbeing Learning t...
Ep. 210 – Simplicity
October 25, 2023 02:10 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBJack 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 into one. In that unification, or collectedness, then it becomes possible, when the mind isn'...
Ep. 209 – Life as a Forest Monk
October 17, 2023 18:07 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBIn 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 it was like living as a forest monk in Thailand at Ajahn Chah's forest monastery The wi...
Ep. 208 – Way of the Bodhisattva
October 10, 2023 20:08 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBIlluminating 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 therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom In this vintage episode, Jack mindfully illuminates: ...
Ep. 207: Rekindle and Renew
October 03, 2023 18:09 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBIn 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 to hear, the path leads you back to this moment and to a more tender heart.” – Jack Ko...
Ep. 206 – Capitalism, Right Livelihood, and the Next Generation with Bill Ford
September 27, 2023 17:55 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBExecutive 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 can't compromise those values. But you also have to have the tools to do that. Whether it's m...
Ep. 205 – Solving Your Own Problems with Trudy Goodman and Bonnie Duran, DrPH
September 20, 2023 16:01 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBIn 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 episode Jack, Trudy, and Bonnie mindfully explore: The powerful lesson encased within Bonnie's...
Ep. 204 – Wise Society
September 13, 2023 17:34 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBReflecting 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 disagree with? And what would they feel from you? Not that you have to have the same ideas, ...
Ep. 203 – Ocean of Air Meditation
September 06, 2023 18:05 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBJack 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, exchanging with all.” – Jack Kornfield In this episode, Jack leads a guided meditation helping...
Ep. 202 – Mudita: Sympathetic Joy
August 29, 2023 23:52 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBIlluminating 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 and wonderment in this life and in the happiness of others, a kind of sympathetic joy." – Ja...
Ep. 201 – Nature of Dharma
August 23, 2023 18:50 - 50 minutes - 46 MBJack 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 navigates: Sufis introducing the Dance of Universal Peace to Jack's retreat of Buddhi...
Ep. 200 – Hunger: The Illusion of Incompleteness
August 16, 2023 18:31 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBGetting 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 the realm that it manifests in in the greatest way, is called ‘The Realm of the Hungry Gho...
Ep. 198 – Awareness and Intimacy
August 02, 2023 04:52 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBIn 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 lover, with your friends, or the sky and the trees, the drought, the grasses, your neighbor...
Ep. 197 – Cycles of Change
July 25, 2023 19:20 - 1 hour - 56 MBNavigating 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 for things as they are, for they way things are. There isn't anything you can hold on...