Happiness

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Discovering your Buddha Nature with Jack Kornfield

The ten paramitas, or "perfections," are central to Buddhist teaching and practice. These perfections represent qualities to cultivate in order to progress along the path

The Sacred Dialogues: Freedom of Spirit, Opening the Heart with Jack Kornfield and Ram Dass

A rare, intimate transmission on love, awareness, and what remains when we stop striving.

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
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield: Meet the Moment Fully, Meet it as a Friend, with Syliva Boorstein

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 331 – Meet the Moment Fully, Meet It as a Friend: Loving Awareness, Aging, and Connection with Sylvia Boorstein

Jack Kornfield and Sylvia Boorstein explore meeting each moment with loving awareness, embracing aging and impermanence, and rediscovering human connection through simple expressions of generosity
How Meditation Makes Us Kinder

[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,
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Gratitude Meditation: A Practice for Cultivating Joy and Appreciation

Discover gratitude meditation with Jack Kornfield. Step-by-step instructions, a guided script, the science of gratitude, and tips for building a daily gratitude practice.
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[Video] Heart Wisdom – Ep. 256 – ‘The Happiness of Peace’ Guided Meditation

In this fresh guided meditation, Jack invites you to rest your mind and heart to uncover the authentic happiness encased within true peace.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 151 – Happiness & Joy In Practice

Perhaps the first happiness that comes from a mindfulness practice is living in the present moment. When we allow ourselves to be in the present,

Jack Kornfield on Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris – Ep. 315

You may ask: what’s the point of meditating when the world is on fire? Jack has extremely satisfying and practical answers.

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 111 – Acts of Truth and Timeless Teachings

In this podcast, we discuss these 7 teachings of Atisha, the eleventh-century Indian sage: Explore the nature of timeless awareness. Don’t be swayed by outer…

Jack Kornfield on Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris – Ep. 243

Dan Harris and I discuss how to use meditation to embrace uncertainty, the importance of getting in touch with your own "tainted glory," and why

Jack Kornfield on The Duncan Trussell Family Hour – Ep. 379

Trudy Goodman, Duncan Trussell & Jack Kornfield discuss the coronavirus pandemic. April 10, 2020

Audio: The Return Of Joy

If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice? There is an unquenchable human spirit born anew in

Fear of Happiness

Much of human suffering is caused by greed, hatred, fear and ignorance. When we let go of greed, hatred, fear and ignorance, and hold the…

Jack Kornfield on the Being Well Podcast with Dr. Rick Hanson – S3, Ep. 75

On this episode we explore: Jack’s experience as a young man traveling to become a monk in Southeast Asia. The nature of awakening and ways…

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