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Ask Jack: Dharma Wisdom for Life’s Real Struggles (payment plan)

A 21-day online course with beloved meditation teacher Jack Kornfield. Each day offers short video teachings, reflection prompts, and a simple practice to help you

How to Thrive in Love: Buddhist Secrets to Transform Your Relationships with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman – 2026

Discover the profound wisdom of love as a spiritual path. Join Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman in this transformative course exploring intimacy, mindfulness, and compassion

Living the Dharma in a Troubled World: Practicing Steadiness, Kindness, and Wise Response in Times of Change

The world is changing faster than ever—politically, environmentally, socially, and emotionally. This

[Video] How Meditation Makes us Kinder | Jack Kornfield and Sylvia Boorstein

In this short video, Sylvia and I reflect on how practice softens the heart—not through one final realization, but through a lifetime of seeing, remembering,

Free from the Cage: Surrender as the Path to Awakening

There is a story from the great Persian poet Rumi about a caged parrot, gifted with a beautiful voice but held captive by her circumstances.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 258 – Enlightenment as Intimacy: Where We’re Going is Here

Speaking to progressing on the spiritual path, Jack explores enlightenment as true intimacy, and shares how: where we’re going is actually here.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 249 – Mindfulness: The Gateway to Liberation

Unraveling the mystery of who you truly are, Jack reveals mindfulness as the gateway to liberation within the ever-changing river of life.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 245 – Monastic Life Insights with Pema Chödrön and Ajahn Sumedho

Teaching a nature retreat amidst softly chirping birds and cooling rain, Jack, Pema Chödrön, and Ajahn Sumedho illuminate joyful insights of monastic life.

[Video] Heart Wisdom – Ep. 244 – An Autobiography of Trauma with Peter A Levine, PhD

Jack and trauma expert, Peter A Levine, PhD, map the path to healing through imagination, curiosity, somatic experiencing, and loving awareness.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 213 – Don Juan Meets Buddha: Becoming a Spiritual Warrior

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.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 204 – Wise Society

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

No Part Left Out: Your Life as Your Path

“Free your heart. Travel like the moon among the stars.” – Buddha What matters in life is simple. Are you free and loving? Are you…

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

Video: Tree of Enlightenment Meditation

Let the heart be soft to receive whatever arises with compassion. Begin to notice how the body is breathing itself, exchanging air with the leaves

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 154 – Awakening In The Midst Of Life

In this “Heart Wisdom” podcast episode we discuss the process of awakening, life’s 10,000 joys and sorrows, and what role time and the present moment

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