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. 196 – The Art of Paying Attention
July 20, 2023 02:54 - 54 minutes - 50 MBIlluminating 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 ourselves, to steady our bodies, and listen with a steadiness of heart, to actually be with...
Ep. 195 – Freedom, Independence, and a Spiritual Rudder
July 11, 2023 18:15 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBIn 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 ignorance. Really know what they are. Let yourself see them, and know that it is possible...
Ep. 194 – Sauna Sessions with Prince Ea
July 04, 2023 21:45 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBHop 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 only half the story. There is a lot of suffering that really needs our honest compassion and ...
Ep. 193 – Mindfulness, A.I., and the Future of Life w/ Soren Gordhamer & Sam Altman of ChatGPT
June 20, 2023 19:21 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBJack 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 professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom In this episode, Jack, Sam, and Soren explor...
Ep. 192 – Spirituality and Sexuality (Part 2)
June 13, 2023 16:03 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBPlunging 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 going on in our hearts as we act." – Jack Kornfield In this episode, Jack vulnerably...
Ep. 191 – Spirituality and Sexuality (Part 1)
June 07, 2023 16:45 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBExploring 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 week is pretty much a reflection of the rest of your heart, mind, spirit, and being. In that...
Ep. 190 – The Lion's Roar of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
May 30, 2023 17:43 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBDirectly 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 point when he wasn't very happy with the way Trungpa Rinpoche was behaving, said that he ...
Ep. 189 – Connecting Practice with Your Deepest Love
May 23, 2023 20:25 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBRewiring 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 learn something new. When you feel afraid it's like the little light comes on that says, '...
188 – Ancient Buddhist Dharma Stories
May 17, 2023 05:12 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBMindfully 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: Modern retellings of ancient Buddhist Dharma stories The courage and mystery of the...
Ep. 187 – The Three Characteristics of Life
May 09, 2023 19:26 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBIn 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 and on. Or we believe our advertising, the idea from the culture that if you get 'this' you'll be a...
Ep. 186 – Expansion and Contraction
May 03, 2023 19:55 - 51 minutes - 47 MBJack 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 live wisely in our practice A trippy interstellar perspective flip through a simple interg...
Ep. 185 – Grey Matter with Michael Krasny
April 25, 2023 19:40 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBThis 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 and you're spending all your time thinking about that conversation you had and the tasks y...
Ep. 184 – Listening to Find the Way
April 19, 2023 20:56 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBUncovering 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 peaceful heart Moving beyond the grasping of attachment and aversion Living in the world from a ...
Ep. 183 – The Wedding of Body and Spirit
April 12, 2023 19:33 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBJack 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, fix, or make this human realm perfect or better. Nor is it to ignore it, but rather to awake...
Ep. 182 – A Life of Greatness with Sarah Grynberg
April 06, 2023 00:56 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBIn 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 their life and you see all the things you would never see before. " – Jack Kornfield In th...
Ep. 181 – The Tenderness of Listening
March 22, 2023 17:37 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBTeaching 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 techniques for full body awareness Ways to develop the capacity to listen Advice on working with t...
Ep. 180 – One Dharma with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein
March 14, 2023 21:49 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBJack 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 that I may experience the Dharma that will bring me to awaken the heart of boundless ...
Ep. 179 – Feminine Face of Dharma
February 27, 2023 20:13 - 1 hour - 55 MBIn 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, and mind Moving from the masculine to the feminine The power of forgiveness "Part of w...
Ep. 178 – Ocean of Breath
February 13, 2023 23:32 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBIn 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 compassion, with a kindness of heart, all that arises." – Jack Kornfield In this episode Jac...
Ep. 177 – Intention and Purpose in Practice
February 07, 2023 21:47 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBBy 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 episode Jack Kornfield discusses: The will to do Skillful action The mind as a mir...
Ep. 176 – The Dharma Body
January 30, 2023 19:45 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBIn 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 write poetry, or you garden. Mindfulness, I declare, is all helpful. With that presence is...
Ep. 175 – Intention to Awaken
January 24, 2023 21:25 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBJack 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 people around the world for this collective meditation experience: onecommune.com/ramdass "An intention c...
Ep. 174 – Intention and Transformation
January 18, 2023 18:11 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBMoving 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: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom NEW Meditation Series: Pause, Breathe, Be Here Now with Ram Dass, Sharon...
Ep. 173 – Death as an Advisor
January 11, 2023 01:59 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBReflecting 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 Goldstein, John Lockley, Ram Dev, Trudy Goodman, Lama Tsultrim Allione—FREE January 16 to ...
Ep. 172 – Mindfulness of Death
January 04, 2023 20:52 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBMindfully 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 therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom NEW Meditation Series: Pause, Breathe, Be Here Now wit...
Ep. 171 – A Light in the Dark
December 29, 2022 19:54 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBJack 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 receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/h...
Ep. 170 – The Water of Dharma
December 22, 2022 21:22 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBTraversing 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. We are open, receptive, and vast. The mystery of being is that we do not know our de...
Ep. 169 – Transformation of Life
December 14, 2022 16:35 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBThrough 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 out of our intentions.” – Jack Kornfield This dharma talk was originally published on Dhar...
Ep. 168 – The Wisdom of Ajahn Chah
December 07, 2022 18:29 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBSharing 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 is a wisdom that is so much greater than the things we get caught up in." – Jack Kor...
Ep. 167 – The Perfection of Truthfulness
November 29, 2022 22:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBLeaning 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 work hard on our individual honesty. Sometimes that may mean something quite surface-level...
Ep. 166 – The Buddha’s Last Teachings
November 25, 2022 15:05 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBGather 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 stand on. Enlightenment, the teachings of birth and death, the earthquake says this is what wakes us...
Ep. 165 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Concentration
November 15, 2022 19:13 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBProceeding 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 thought. It's much more a sense of the opening, the softening, the receiving—that's what allows...
Ep. 164 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Effort
November 08, 2022 20:24 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBContinuing 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 Kornfield See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ...
Ep. 163 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Livelihood
November 02, 2022 01:59 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBJack 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 Jack Kornfield was originally published on DharmaSeed.org See Privacy Policy at https://...
Ep. 162 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Action
October 17, 2022 20:31 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBExploring 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 aspect of Buddhism: Right Action. Taking you on a journey through the Five Precepts by shar...
Ep. 161 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Speech
September 22, 2022 18:44 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBJack 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 question: Can we start to become conscious of all these hours where we talk on automatic pilot? C...
Ep. 160 - Practice In Daily Life: Intention
September 08, 2022 13:46 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBIn 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 DharmaSeed.org “The gift of intention, the dedication, is to fulfill your own true nature – to fulfill that which is bea...
Ep. 159 – Practice in Daily Life: Walking the Eightfold Path
September 01, 2022 21:36 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBIn 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 Here Now Network 6th-Anniversary Fundraiser Drive - win tickets to the Ram Dass Legacy retreat in ...
Ep. 158 – Season of Generosity
August 24, 2022 13:59 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBThere 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 from Spirit Rock's Monday Night Dharma Class on 12/14/2015, Jack Kornfield focuses on the holiday s...
Ep. 157 – Mindful Respect
August 10, 2022 20:09 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBIn 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 Spirit Rock on June 27, 2022. “When we embody respect, graciousness, loving awareness for all, w...
Ep. 156 – Here & Now Meditation
July 28, 2022 16:08 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBJack 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 on 5/16/22. "There will be sensations of the body, sounds, emotions, and feelings arising, and ...
Ep. 155 – Path Of Parenting
July 12, 2022 21:47 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBJack 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 on January 1st, 1991, Jack Kornfield shares spiritual practices and perspectives on the multi-fa...
Ep. 154 – Awakening In The Midst Of Life
July 04, 2022 20:07 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBJack 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 Bodhisattvas and enlightenment, Jack elucidates the intricacies of life, death, fearlessness an...
Ep. 153 - Teachers And Cults
June 27, 2022 14:30 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBThis 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 capacity to take situations and imagine them to be different than they are.” – Jack Kornfield See Privac...
Ep. 152 – The Most Basic Truths
June 16, 2022 21:36 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBIn 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 supposed to be." – Jack Kornfield See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P...
Ep. 151 - Happiness & Joy In Practice
June 07, 2022 01:36 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBThis 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 that capacity to actually appreciate life through a training of awareness and through bein...
Happiness & Joy In Practice w/ Jack Kornfield - Heart Wisdom Ep. 151
June 07, 2022 01:36 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBThis 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 that capacity to actually appreciate life through a training of awareness and through bein...
Ep. 150 – The War-Free Heart
May 30, 2022 14:48 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBReminding us of our luminous true nature, Jack invites us into the war-free zone of the heart, and leads a chant of the mantra 'Namoh.' Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom In this Dharma Talk from Spirit Rock Meditation Center on 12/10/2007, Jack Kornfield shares reflective wisdom pointing to our innate capacity for love, compassion, metta, and joy. Exp...
Ep. 149 – Tending the Garden of the World, Tending the Garden of the Heart
May 17, 2022 01:46 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBJack Kornfield reflects on dynamic Buddhist stories highlighting how we can tend the garden of the world by tending to the garden of our heart. Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "Stay connected to the best of these seeds. Take a moment to reflect: What is your highest intention—in your love relationship, in raising children, in doing your work? Your i...
Ep. 148 – Open, Spacious Awareness Meditation
May 03, 2022 21:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBIn this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack Kornfield offers a potent guided meditation designed for letting go into open, spacious awareness. Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "You are the Buddha resting in vastness, seeing the arising and passing of all things with the great heart of compassion, peaceful in the midst of it all." – Jack Kornfield See Priv...